Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Dr. Jitendra Singh said the time has come for India to develop integrated models of medical teaching and added that Banaras Hindu University (BHU), founded by Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya in 1916, offers a unique model of integrated teaching, including integrated medical teaching within one single campus.

BHU, said the Minister, is today possibly the largest residential educational centre, with so many diverse academic streams within the same campus and at the same time also committed to focus on character building and mentoring. All disciplines including life sciences, Medicine, Engineering, Arts, Social Sciences, technology etc to mention a few, are there.

Presiding over the Annual Day celebrations as chief guest at BHU, Dr. Jitendra Singh said, the Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS) in BHU is a unique medical centre in the University in the sense that it has faculty of Ayurveda as well as indigenous medical systems, Dental Science along with Allopathy and other modern or western systems medicine. It is also planning to introduce Yoga and Ayush studies on the same premises.

IMS ranks among India’s top five Medical Institutes noted Dr. Jitendra Singh who said, the Institute in BHU imbibes the spirit of an integrated and holistic approach where the students can access all the medical streams in a single campus.

The Minister congratulated the faculty and students for their distinctive performance who are bagging awards in recognition of their work.

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