Overview
- IIT Kharagpur, which received National Medical Commission approval on Thursday, November 12, 2026, will offer six NMC‑accredited MD specialisations with two seats each for a total intake of 12 students.
- Admissions for the inaugural 2026–27 cohort are being handled through the Medical Counselling Committee's NEET‑PG 2026 Round 2 online counselling and are subject to the MCC seat matrix and eligibility rules.
- Classes for the first batch are planned to begin around early January 2027, contingent on completion of counselling and operational readiness at the institute's medical facilities.
- Clinical training will use the on‑campus Dr B. C. Roy Medical College and Syama Prasad Mookerjee superspeciality hospital, supplemented by a formal MoU with the South Eastern Railway Hospital to meet NMC clinical requirements.
- The programmes are explicitly designed as an interdisciplinary, research‑led pilot to combine clinical education with IIT Kharagpur's strengths in engineering, AI and biomedical sciences and to develop physician‑scientists who can translate technology into healthcare solutions.