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The Fellowship in HIV Medicine is a postgraduate level training programme which offers
quality training for doctors in HIV care, and an opportunity to develop HIV
clinical services in their hospitals. The course combines clinical contact
programmes with distance learning and project work. Originally developed at the
Christian Medical College, Vellore (CMC), the Fellowship training is now
conducted by a network of partner institutions in different parts of the
country.
The Fellowship course (including the educational materials, assessment and
evaluation methods and the protocols for development and management) has been
designed, developed and evaluated by CMC with assistance from the Open
University, UK. CMC began offering this course in 2002-03 in collaboration with
the Population Council, with funding support from the European Union. In the five
years of the course that have been completed, almost all students (96%) have
graduated in the final theory and practical examinations and a range of HIV/AIDS
care services have been developed in the participating hospitals through project
work.
From 2006-07, two more premier medical colleges, the Maulana Azad
Medical College, Delhi and the School of Tropical Medicine & Medical
College, Kolkata are participating with CMC as a network making the Fellowship
available widely at all these three institutions.
Currently 37 students are undergoing FHM training in 2009.
The course is of one year duration, consisting of four contact sessions (6
weeks in total) at the training institution, supervised distance learning (4
months) and project work in the institutions of the trainees (6 months).
For further information including how to apply for admission to the course,
click on the link of the training institution of your choice.
The fellowship network is coordinated by the Christian
Medical College, Vellore (CMC)
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