Rural Medical College, Loni, Maharashtra

Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences University was established on 29th September, 2003 by Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development.

The Pravara Medical Trust is the parent Organisaiton of the University and was established in 1972 in a small village Loni of Ahmednagar District (Maharashtra State) by a visionary Padmashri Dr. Vitthalrao Vikhe Patil, the founder of Co-operative movement in India.

In 1976 the Trust started providing primary and secondary level medical care with establishment of a modest hospital of 100 beds and over a period of time the hospital grew in to 800 beds multi-disciplinary, superspeciality medical institute with state of art facilities.

The following institutes under the ambit of the University

1. Rural Medical College & Hospital, Loni
2. Rural Dental College & Hospital, Loni
3. College of Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation Center, Loni
4. College of Nursing, Loni
5. Centre For Social Medicine, Loni
6. Center for Biotechnology, Loni
7. Bioscience Management School, Sinnar

The University is unique in more than one way. It is specialised in Medical and Health Sciences with a dedication to serve the society as a Center of Excellence with emphasis on socially meaningful medical education, health care and research.

RURAL MEDICAL COLLEGE:

The objective of the Institute is to lay a foundation and create advanced academic and research environment for medical and other health science manpower that would identify and deal effectively with peculiar problems faced in implementing a comprehensive rural health care package in the country. Appropriate, relevant and up-to-date knowledge and skills are made available to grass roots level community members to post doctoral research workers in medical and health sciences.

The Institute has emerged as an alternative to traditional medical and health care programs through internationalization, innovation in academic and research studies and attained Deemed University status in 2003.

There are five main study programs with in the PIMS: medicine, dentistry, physiotherapy and rehabilitation, nursing, and para-medical (medical laboratory technology, x-ray technology, dental technology, and dental hygiene).

The college offers undergraduate course in medicine (M.B.B.S) and postgraduate degree (M.D/M.S) and diploma programmes in 20 medical disciplines. The sanctioned annual intake to the M.B.B.S programme is 125. The courses offered is a perfect blend of community oriented, problem based learning with high quality clinical reasoning.

COURSES OFFERED:
(A) UNDER GRADUATE:
M.B.B.S. Program: {M.B.B.S : Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery }

(B) POST GRADUATE:
General Medicine
Paediatrics
General Surgery
Orthopaedics
Ophthalmology
Obst & Gynecology
E.N.T.
Radio diagnosis
Radiotherapy
Anesthesiology
Preventive & Social Medicine
Pathology
Pharmacology
Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
Microbiology 1 -
Anatomy 1 -
Physiology (M.D)