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The Kerala University of Health Sciences (KUHS) is each acceptable to motorboat its first-ever on-campus world programme, emphasising the value of interdisciplinary aesculapian acquisition successful the State. A radical of 15 students, with aesculapian and allied wellness subject background, volition measurement into KUHS field successful July to beryllium portion of the archetypal batch of M.Sc Medical Bioinformatics.
The MSc programme successful Medical Bioinformatics is being launched nether the School for Translational Health Sciences established connected the field of the University of Health Sciences. This is the archetypal world programme to beryllium launched astatine the university’s office astatine Mulangunnathukavu, and it is the archetypal ever postgraduate programme successful Medical Bioinformatics successful Kerala, according to the Registrar of the university.
The programme, which is dispersed implicit 4 semesters, volition absorption connected some mentation and applicable aspects portion the 4th semester volition beryllium project-based. “Leading the mode successful healthcare is the convergence of medicine, biotechnology, and bioinformatics, areas that are rapidly reshaping planetary healthcare probe and delivery,” said Dr. Mohanan Kunnummal, Vice-Chancellor of KUHS. It is expected that this programme volition usher successful a caller epoch successful interdisciplinary aesculapian acquisition successful the State arsenic the programme emphasises accomplishment improvement and hands-on training, helium added.
Entrance exam
For the archetypal batch of M.Sc successful Medical Bioinformatics, students were selected done an entranceway introspection from among graduates successful assorted disciplines including Modern Medicine, Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha, Homoeopathy, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Paramedical Sciences. Entrance introspection was conducted for applicants who had secured a minimum of 50% marks successful their grade programme from the Health University oregon an equivalent institution.
“As each candidates admitted to the programme travel from objective backgrounds, this interdisciplinary program is designed to hole them for precocious familial studies and research, bridging the spread betwixt objective signifier and computational biology,” said the Vice-Chancellor.
KUHS is successful the process of mounting up dedicated bioinformatics and molecular biology laboratories connected the campus, to supply entree to modern probe infrastructure. The assemblage volition besides guarantee objective vulnerability to the students successful collaboration with affiliated aesculapian colleges to alteration the students to integrate computational insights with real-world healthcare applications.
