Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences

Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS) is a Medical Institute under State Legislature Act and a speciality hospital in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India. SVIMS was conceived on the lines of All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi, and was created by an act of the Andhra Pradesh State Legislature. The foundation stone was laid on 18 April 1986 by N. T. Rama Rao, the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. The hospital started functioning from 2 February 1993 and later became a Medical Institute under State Legislature Act in 1995. The current Director is Dr B Vengamma [1][2]

Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences
TypeInstitute under State Legislature Act
Established1993
DirectorDr.B.Vengamma, MBBS, DM (Neurology) (NIMHANS, Bengaluru), FRCP (Edin), FAMS, FICP, FIAN, PG Dip in Epidemiology (PHFI-IIPH)
Location
Tirupati
,
Andhra Pradesh
,
India
NicknameSVIMS
AffiliationsUniversity Grants Commission (UGC)
Medical Council of India (MCI)
Websitehttp://svimstpt.ap.nic.in/

Rankings

The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranked Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences 72 overall in India[3] in 2019, 77 among universities[4] and 29th in the medical ranking.[5]

Academics

The college offers the four and a half year M.B.B.S. course with a one year compulsory rotating internship. There are 175 setas which are filled through NEET UG exam.

Postgraduate and doctoral courses

Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences offers postgraduate courses in almost all super specialty subjects including surgery, medicine, etc. Similarly it offers a variety of Doctoral courses including MCh i Neurosurgery, Cardiac Surgery among others and DM in Cardiology, Neurology etc. There are more than 28 post graduate and post doctoral courses.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 November 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "ISRO official dies of accident injuries". The Hindu.
  3. ""National Institutional Ranking Framework 2019 (Overall)"". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Human Resource Development. 2019. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
  4. ""National Institutional Ranking Framework 2019 (Universities)"". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Human Resource Development. 2019. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
  5. ""National Institutional Ranking Framework 2019 (Medical)"". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Human Resource Development. 2019. Retrieved 17 July 2019.

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