• Hospital-integration and intensive classroom learning create a rapid and thorough grounding in medicine.

  • Transition from a pre-eminent Indian health sciences university to top U.S. teaching hospitals.

  • Faculty serve as teachers, guides, counselors, mentors… and friends.

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  • BSC/MD Program at KMCIC

    KMCIC’s MD Degree Program begins in Manipal, India, with a U.S.-modeled clinically correlated curriculum, and finishes with clerkships at top U.S. teaching hospitals.*

  • Pre-med Program at KMCIC

    KMCIC offers a number of courses designed to strengthen a student’s undergraduate background in the health sciences.

  • KMCIC Admissions

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Kasturba Medical College

Kasturba Medical College—International Center (KMCIC) combines a U.S.-modeled medical school based in Manipal, India, with the affiliation network and clinical sciences resources of AUA.

KMCIC gives students all the advantages of a hospital-integrated curriculum geared towards practice in the United States, bolstered by India’s prestigious Manipal University and its 55 years of experience in healthcare education. With four semesters of intensive study in India followed by two years of clinical clerkships at affiliated hospitals, KMCIC students excel locally for global achievement.

With over 15,000 students studying multiple disciplines, Manipal is a global pillar of knowledge in a thriving, culturally rich college town. The campus features fully integrated digital learning systems to augment world-class medical libraries, teaching laboratories and diagnostic equipment. The medical school boasts an anatomy and pathology museum that is one of the largest in the world, with over 1,000 specimens available for study.
 

INDIAN EXPERIENCE, AMERICAN PRACTICE

  • Graduates receive an MD degree from KMCIC/AUA.
  • KMCIC rigorously upholds U.S. standards of medical education.
  • The curriculum is hospital integrated, matching the most current clinically correlated educational model developed by top U.S. medical schools.
  • The four-semester premed program builds the foundation which develops a mastery of medicine.
  • Students transition from Basic Sciences in India, join their colleagues in Antigua and continuing on to clinical sciences in the U.S.


STUDENTS FIRST

  • Faculty members make themselves available to students, as mentors.
  • With student rapport an important part of a quality education, faculty members welcome and acclimate students to the culture of Manipal and India.
  • The Student Welfare Office provides study support as well as counseling services on both academic and personal matters.