Tamil Nadu Higher Speciality Medical Admissions 2012-2013

Directorate of Medical Education, Chennai

Tamil Nadu Higher Speciality Medical Admissions 2012-2013

Selection Committee, Directorate of Medical Education, Chennai has invited applications from natives of Tamil Nadu for admission to the following three year Higher Speciality Courses in Tamil Nadu Government Medical Colleges of the year 2012-13.

* DM COURSES :

NEUROLOGY

CARDIOLOGY

NEPHROLOGY

MEDICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY

RHEUMATOLOGY

ONCOLOGY

NEONATOLOGY

* M.Ch COURSES :

NEUROSURGERY

CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY

UROLOGY

SURGICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY

PAEDIATRIC SURGERY

PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY

VASCULAR SURGERY

SURGICAL ONCOLOGY

ENDOCRINE SURGERY

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA :

Candidates must be citizens of India. Candidates from other states are not eligible to apply.

(i) Candidates who had studied their Under Graduate and Post Graduate courses in Tamil Nadu are eligible to apply.

(ii) However candidates from other States who had studied in Tamil Nadu are eligible to apply provided they do not claim nativity in their State and give an undertaking to that effect.

(iii) Other candidates will have to produce the Nativity Certificate of Tamil Nadu Origin in the format annexed to the application form.

(iv) The Certificate of Nativity in Tamil Nadu should be issued by the competent authority only in the specified format annexed to the application form and supported by a copy of Passport/ Ration Card / Voter’s ID / Driving License.

Candidates who hold a Post Graduate Degree of the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University or of any other University recognized as equivalent to the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University and included in the schedules to the Indian Medical Council Act of 1956 and who have obtained full registration either from the Medical Council of India or any of the State Medical Councils are alone eligible to apply for Higher Speciality Courses.

Non-Service candidates who have completed their qualifying Post Graduate Degrees in Tamil Nadu Government Medical Colleges under the State Quota / All India Quota with satisfactory completion of TWO year bond period and enclosure of necessary certificates from the concerned authorities alone are eligible to apply.

APPLICATIONS :

Applications can be downloaded from: www.tnhealth.org & www.tn.gov.in 

Duly filled application along with necessary enclosures and 3 self addressed envelopes (size 23 cms x 10 cms) must be sent in a large sized envelope measuring 38cm X 28cm to the Secretary, Selection Committee, Kilpauk, Chennai -10 before the last date along with a Demand Draft for 2000/- towards the cost of application form drawn in favour of The Secretary, Selection Committee and payable at Chennai. The name of the candidate and the course applied for ( DM/ MCh) should be mentioned on the reverse of the Demand Draft. The envelope should be super-scribed "APPLICATION FOR HIGHER SPECIALITY COURSES 2012 – 2013 SESSION". SC / SCA and ST candidates who are natives of Tamil Nadu are exempted from payment of the cost of the Application Form.

Candidates seeking admission to Higher Speciality courses should submit the application form with necessary enclosures which should reach THE SECRETARY, SELECTION COMMITTEE, 162, E.V.R. PERIYAR SALAI, KILPAUK, CHENNAI – 600010 on or before 04-06-2012 by 5 pm.

The Entrance Examination will be conducted on 17.06.2012 only at Chennai as scheduled below :

* DM / MCh Courses  : 10 am - 1.15 pm

* First / Single Option : 10 am - 11.30 am

* Second Option : 11.45 am - 1.15 pm

Important Dates :

* Last date for downloading applications : 2.06.2012 (5 pm)

* Last date for receipt of duly filled applications : 4.06.2012 (5 pm)

* Date of Entrance Examination : 17.06.2012

* Expected date of result declaration : 30.06.2012

* Allotment of seats : July 2012

For further details, visit : http://www.tn.gov.in/results/dme/PG_2012_2013/HS/prospectus.pdf