Post Graduate Geriatric Training in India
for Doctors“In India, postgraduate training consists of a 3-year residency. While the 1990s saw the first academic department of geriatric medicine at Madras Medical College, Chennai, no further programs began until 2010, when three new departments were established at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi; Christian Medical College, Vellore; and All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. A proposed component of the National Programme for Health Care of the Elderly was to add Union Government support for 36 new annual postgraduate positions in geriatrics sponsored by 18 new geriatric medicine departments in 18 states by 2017. …”
– Hazzard’s Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, 7e, Chapter 6: International Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
Details of Approved Training Programs in Geriatric Medicine in India
| Ser No | Name of Medical College | Place / Loc | Nos PG Resident per year | |||
| PG Resident | Fellowship in Geriatric Med/ Certificate Course | PHD | ||||
| 1. | AFMC | Pune | 02 | Nil | Nil | |
| 2 | GOA MEDICAL COLLEGE | Bam-bolim Panaji Goa | 02 | Nil | Nil | |
| 3. | AIIMS | Rishi-kesh | 06 | 01 (Life style diseases) | 02 | |
| 4. | Govt Medical College, | Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar (Aurangabad) | 05 |
05 (Post MBBS fellowship in Geriatric Medicine – 1 year) |
02 | |
| 5. | Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU | Varanasi | 03 |
01 (Geriatric Rheumatology) |
14 | |
| 6. | Dr DY Patil Med College, hosp & research Centre | Pimpri, Pune | 02 (Applied) | Nil | Nil | |
| 7. | Medical College | Kolkata | 03 | 10 (PGDGM(IGNOU) | ||
| 8. | SMS Medical College | Jaipur | 02 | Nil | Nil | |
| 9. | Yenepaya Medical College | Mangalore | 02 |
02 (Post MD 23 months fellowship) |
8 | |
| 10. |
Grant Medical College and Sir JJ Group of Hospitals Mumbai |
Mumbai | 04 | — | — | |
| 11. |
Government Medical College |
KOTA | 02 | — | — | |
| 12. | Madras Medical College | Chennai | 9 | — | — | |
| 13. |
Bengaluru Baptist Hospital
|
Bengaluru | 2 (DNB) | — | — | |
| 14. |
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences Kochi
|
Kochi | 01 | — | — | |
| 15. | AIIMS Delhi | New Delhi | 06 | Nil | Nil | |
| 16. | CMC Vellore | Vellore | 5 | 1 seat – post MD/DNB Internal Medicine or MD/DNB Family medicine | Nil | |
| 17. | Bangalore Medical college and research institute, Bengaluru | Bengaluru | 02 | Nil | Nil | |
| 18. | JSS Mysore | Mysore | 02 | 2/year (applied) | — | |
| 19 |
S N Medical College, Jodhpur
|
Jodhpur | 02 | – | – | |
| 20 | BLDE DU Shri B M Patil medical College Hospital & Research Centre, Vijayapura | Vijayapura | 02 | Nil | Nil | |