What is the Syllabus of MBBS in India?
The MBBS course lasts for five and a half years, followed by an internship at a hospital for one year. The internship is compulsory to allow students to study the MBBS subjects to acquire some practical experience before completing the course. It also helps strengthen the knowledge they would have acquired through course books in the past four years.
The course employs a semester system. Each semester lasts for six months. MBBS subjects are taught across nine semesters in total.
There are three phases in the MBBS subjects taught: Pre-clinical, Para-clinical, and Clinical Phase. The pre-clinical phase lasts for two semesters (1 and 2) and covers Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Physiology.
The para-clinical phase lasts for three semesters (3, 4, and 5) and covers Community Medicine, Forensic medicine, Microbiology, and Pharmacology. Clinical Postings in Wards and OPDS also begin here.
The clinical phase lasts for the last 4 semesters (6, 7, 8, and 9) and covers subjects of Community Medicine, Pediatrics, Gynae, Obst., Medicine, Psychiatry, Dermatology, Surgery, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, E.N.T., and Anesthesiology. Clinical postings happen in this phase.