MD in Paediatrics Admission 2021 & Top Colleges

• This is a 3 years’ post graduate program in Paediatrics.
• Paediatrics is a medical branch that deals with the medical care of children, adolescents, and infants.
• It mainly focuses on medical conditions that affecting baby, children, and young people.
• It includes subjects like Child Psychology, Child Health, Community Health, Family Welfare, child care, disorders, Anatomy, and Nutrition.
• The course imparts skills that enable you to handle all kinds of pediatric diseases, provide training to give advice to newborn babies, infants, children, and adolescents.
• Once the academic study of this course will finish, you will get practical training on real life cases and situations under the guidance of professionals. 
• This course provides you knowledge about the medical needs of neonates, children, adolescents, infants and responsibility of principles of Health Policy and professional ethics.
• Students, who hold MBBS degree and completed one-year internship program are eligible to apply for this course.  
• On the completion of this course, you can seek employment in many renowned hospitals AIIMS, Rainbow Hospital for Women & Children, Hinduja Hospital, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Christian Medical Hospital etc. 

How to get admission into this course

• Admission of the candidate will be based on national level entrance known as National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Post Graduate (NEET PG).
• Some institute conducts their own entrance exam to offer admission into this course such as AIIMS, AFMC, KMC etc. 
• Before applying for any entrance exam, you need to satisfy the set eligibility criteria as prescribed by the Institute.

Career prospects

• There are lucrative career opportunities for the student who obtained this degree in the field of, private and govt. hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, dispensaries, community, research laboratories, medical centers and military service. 
• You can appoint as Lab Technician, Consultant, product specialist, medical advisor, junior resident, pharmacy manager, professional etc. 
• You can also join any medical university and college to impart knowledge about the relevant sector.