Overview
Two-year blended-learning family medicine diploma equipping general practitioners in the developing world with continuing, comprehensive primary care skills ('refer less, resolve more').
The programme
- Training type
- Postgraduate Diploma (blended distance learning)
- Duration
- 2 years (blended: online modules, monthly Zoom sessions, onsite contact programmes of about 2 weeks)
- Start
- Not stated on official page
- Positions
- Up to 50 seats per year
- Accreditation
- Accredited distance education initiative by ICMDA, CMC Vellore Distance Education Unit and Loma Linda University; not equivalent to MD/DNB and not recognised by the Medical Council of India
- Department
- Distance Education Unit
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Valid MBBS or equivalent medical degree and a valid medical licence to practise
- International applicants
- Yes — SAARC, NRI and foreign nationals can apply; aimed at doctors in the developing world
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Not stated on official page
How to apply
- Deadline
- Not stated on official page
- Application method
- Online application to CMC Vellore Distance Education Unit; selection on academic merit
Funding
- Funding
- Not stated on official page