IIT Jodhpur & AIIMS Jodhpur PhD, Masters and Masters-PhD Dual Degree Programs in Medical Technologies

About IIT Jodhpur

Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur was established in 2008, to foster technology education and research in India. The Institute is committed to technological thought and action to benefit the economic development of India. Scholarship in teaching and learning;

Scholarship in research and creative accomplishments; and relevance to Industry are three driving forces for us at IIT Jodhpur.

About AIIMS Jodhpur

AIIMS Jodhpur is established by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojna (PMSSY), with the aim of correcting regional imbalances in quality tertiary level healthcare in the country, and attaining self sufficiency in graduate and postgraduate medical education and training AIIMS Jodhpur is established by an Act of Parliament on the lines of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi which imparts medical education in all its branches and related fields, along with nursing and paramedical training.

About the Programme

IIT Jodhpur & AIIMS Jodhpur are jointly offering Master’s, Master’s-PhD Dual Degree and PhD Programs in Medical Technologies for the Semester commencing from July 2020.

The master’s in Medical Technologies and PhD program offered jointly by IITJ and AIIMS Jodhpur aims to provide a common platform for doctors and engineers fostering knowledge sharing and innovation leading to development of indigenous healthcare devices and systems through the process of incubation and entrepreneurship. This inherently structured program has been designed to be open and would evolve to create a synergy between skill sets of technologists and medical practitioners.

This will also create a unique collaborative platform that not only integrates technology and medicine but interface them with entrepreneurship which will enable the participants to venture into complete cycle of IDEATION TO REALIZATION of healthcare technologies, devices and systems.

To join this unique program on Medical Technologies, applications are invited from highly motivated individuals having a distinct flair for interdisciplinary research, innovation and ability to carry it forward to set up startups and industry in the healthcare sector.

Eligibility for Financial Assistance

Financial assistance for Master’s or Dual Degree Program students

(a) Full time regular Master’s students may be eligible for a monthly stipend in return for 8 hours of work per week of Teaching or Research Assistantships.

(b) For regular dual degree students, financial assistantship/scholarship will be at par with regular Ph.D. students.

(c) The applicant must either have a valid GATE score or exempted from GATE as per MHRD circular or have qualified an equivalent National Examination or have qualified in the written test and/or interview conducted by IIT Jodhpur and AIIMS Jodhpur.

Areas where no GATE exam is conducted, there the GATE requirement is exempted, these candidates do however have to qualify the written test and/or interview conducted by IIT Jodhpur and AIIMS Jodhpur.

Financial Assistance for PhD program

Candidates admitted to Ph.D. Program (Regular) will be eligible for financial assistance as per the following:

(a) A candidate having a valid GATE/NET(JRF) (or equivalent) can have financial assistance as per MHRD norms/or equivalent applicable for non-science Departments.

(b) Candidates can avail financial assistance as Project funded JRF, if available.

(d) Candidates belonging to ST category having the valid fellowship offer under the scheme “National Fellowship and Scholarship for Higher Education of ST Students” administered by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs