Overview
- IIT Kharagpur announced on Thursday, November 12, 2026, that the National Medical Commission has approved six MD programmes for the 2026–27 academic year.
- The institute will open six specialisations with two seats each — General Medicine, Radiology, Physiology, Pathology, Community Medicine and Biochemistry — for a total inaugural intake of 12 students.
- Admissions will be handled through the Medical Counselling Committee’s NEET‑PG 2026 online counselling and the new seats have been listed for consideration in Round 2 on the MCC portal.
- IIT Kharagpur says the courses will use its Dr B C Roy Multi‑Speciality Medical Research Centre, the new Shyama Prasad Mookerji Superspeciality Hospital and a partnership with South Eastern Railway Hospital to meet NMC clinical requirements, and that fees and stipends will follow AIIMS norms.
- The institute frames the launch as a research‑oriented pilot to train clinician‑innovators who combine clinical practice with engineering, AI and biomedical research, and it could serve as a model for technology‑driven medical education at other technical institutes.