Diploma in Anesthesia is a two-year Post Graduate Medical Diploma course and completion of this course enables the candidates to join the anesthesia department of a hospital. This course is approved by the Medical Council of India and many colleges in India offer this course with approval from the Council.

The names of government colleges offering Diploma in Anesthesia course in India are given below:

• Government Medical College, Surat, Gujarat

• Government Medical College, Jammu

• Government Medical College, Bellary, Karnataka

• Government Medical College, Aurangabad, Maharashtra

• Government Medical College, Nagpur, Maharashtra

• Government Medical College, Patiala, Punjab

• Government Medical College, Amritsar, Punjab

• Guntur Medical College, Andhra Pradesh

• Andhra Medical College, Andhra Pradesh

• Kakatiya Medical College, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh

• Kurool Medical College, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh

• Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad

• Patna Medical College, Bihar

• Goa Medical College, Goa

• Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi

• Army Hospital & Research Institute, Delhi

• Medical College, Baroda, Gujarat

• Kottayam Medical College, Kottayam, Kerala

• Regional Institute of Medical Science, Manipur

• Coimbatore Medical College, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

• SN Medical College, Agra

• Thanjavur Medical College, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu

• Stanely Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

• Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

• Madurai Medical College, Madurai, Tamil Nadu

Eligibility requirement:

For getting admission to the Diploma in Anesthesia course, candidates must have completed their MBBS from an institution approved by the Medical Council of India and they should also have completed their compulsory internship along with MBBS course.

Admission Procedure:

Admission of students to the Post Graduate Diploma in Anesthesia is done on the basis of either state level PG medical entrance examination like Uttar Pradesh State Post Graduate Medical Entrance Examination or national level PG medical entrance examination being All India Post Graduate Medical Entrance Examination. Even though, the state-run government medical colleges, admission is done based on the state-level score, some percentage of seats are reserved for candidates with All India level entrance examination score.

Career options after Diploma in Anesthesia:

Anesthesiologists play an important role in the pre-operative care for patients undergoing surgery in any hospital. Therefore, multi-specialty hospitals are always on the lookout for these professionals to offer the best care to their patients. Their associated areas of work involve caring of the very sick intensive care patients and management of chronic and acute pain.

Thus, diploma in Anesthesia holders can find very good job prospects not only in government and in private hospitals in India, but in hospitals at foreign countries as well.