To help physicians at Peerless specializing in emergency medical care.
By Deepak Chitnis
WASHINGTON, DC: The Peerless Hospital in Kolkata has partnered up with George Washington University’s Ronald Reagan Institute of Emergency Medicine to provide specialized instruction for students going into emergency medical care.
The reason for the partnership is to help Peerless, one of India’s leading private hospitals, deal with the rising number of trauma-related injuries in its immediate area. As such events continue to escalate, so will the demand for well-trained emergency medical responders, reports the Indo-Asian News Service.
A total of 16 students are now set to finish their three-year Masters in Emergency Medicine Program through this program, and will graduate next month from George Washington University.
The Press Trust of India reports that seven of these individuals have received job offers to stay in the US, while the rest will come back to India and put their new skills to work in their home country.
The contents of the course are equivalent to that of an MD degree in India, according to Peerless Hospital’s Managing Director, Dilip Samandar. Courses will continue to be offered to students from Peerless, who can either travel to Washington, DC to train at the Ronald Reagan Institute of Emergency Medicine, or can receive instruction from one of seven consultants who will be flown into Kolkata on a rotating basis.
The partnership is just the latest in a long line of recent relationships being forged between institutions in the US and India. Everyone from private universities to public, and even Ivy League schools, have seen the potential in Indian students and are jumping at the chance to pair up with some of the country’s top schools for medicine, business, and engineering.
Some of the schools that have made significant headway into the Indian market include the University of Chicago, and Virginia Tech.