MCI allots 46 more PG seats to Faridkot medical college

Faridkot, March 30 : The Medical Council of India (MCI) has allotted 46 more postgraduate (PG) seats to Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital, Faridkot, the highest ever to a medical college in the region in one go.
The MCI has allotted a total of 51 new PG seats to Punjab as five seats have been increased in Government Medical College, Patiala.
On March 20, the MCI had recommended the increase in the PG seats in the clinical subjects of government medical colleges for the academic year 2017-2018. Now, the Union Ministry of Health has approved these seats and the Faridkot medical college was informed about these.
With these 46 seats in PG clinical subjects, the total number of PG seats (clinical and non-clinical) in the Faridkot medical college is now 100. The undergraduate (MBBS) seats in this college are also 100.Three government medical colleges in Punjab at Faridkot, Amritsar and Patiala offer 100, 200 and 200 MBBS seats, respectively.
In Faridkot medical college, the seats for anaesthesia have been increased from two to 12, while the number of seats for general medicine has gone up from three to 10. In surgery ENT, ophthalmology, orthopaedics and general surgery, the seats have been increased from two to six, two to seven, two to five and four to 11, respectively.