MGIMS began to offer post-graduation programs in all specialties in the late seventies. The 1974 batch was the first batch to benefitโ MGIMS gave this batch an opportunity to do post-graduation almost on a platter. Soon, 17 students from this batch metamorphosed as residents in their own alma mater. A handful of students from the 1972 (4 of 62) and 1973 batch (6 of 62) too obtained their post-graduation from the alma mater.
In the mid-eighties, the rules for post-graduation changed. The graduates had to spend two years in a rural health NGO for seeking post-graduation at MGIMS. Thus, students after internship would leave Sevagram only to come back again after two years. Two decades later, the winds of change started blowing again and MGIMS students faced the prospect of facing stiff headwinds. NEET came into existence, and MGIMS students could no longer depend on their performance in the university exams to grab a PG seat. Now they were required to take the NEET. The Sevagram flora and fauna changed. Students, countrywide, began pouring in thick and fast in Sevagram as they applied forโand optedโMGIMS to do their post-graduation via their NEET scores.
Here is a slide that shows the journey of undergraduate students at MGIMS. Of the 2226 MGIMS graduates who either completed their post-graduation or are in the midst of their residency, 1257 (56%) MGIMS graduates owe their post-graduation to MGIMS. Indeed a big number for a medical school that took root in a village.
