Post Graduate Diploma in Maternal and Child Health PGDMCH

Post Graduate Diploma in Maternal and Child Health PGDMCH

The programme is intended to provide an opportunity to medical personnel and private practitioners for upgrading their knowledge and skills in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) for providing better quality of MCH services. The programme covers the concepts, practices and application for knowledge in the field of MCH services and aims at improving the knowledge and skills of medical personnel working both in the governmental health care delivery system and the private sector and not for registration of additional qualification by MCI.

Objectives:

After completion of this programme, a student should be able to achieve the following objectives:

• imbibe comprehensive knowledge of ongoing Maternal and Child Programmes and be able to manage Health Care Services at different institutional levels;
•  tackle the disease outbreaks and effectively manage the National Health Programmes especially in relation to MCH services;
• provide antenatal care including those of high risk pregnancy, conduct normal delivery, handle common emergency care related to pregnancy and its outcome and identify referral situations;
• manage common gynecological morbidity and provide family planning services;
• provide newborn care, identify high risk babies, diagnose and manage common childhood morbidity including emergencies; and acquire knowledge on nutritional needs, assess growth and development of children and manage their respective problems.

Eligibility: MBBS. For PGDMCH, the experience does not necessarily mean work experience in Government service. It will be counted as period between the date of completion of internship and June 30 of the year in which s/he is applying for admission, irrespective of place of work. PGDMCH is being offered through Programme Study Centre (Medical Colleges) and Skill Development Centres (District Hospitals) which would be allocated by the Regional Centre after finalisation of the admission.

Medium of Instruction: English

Duration: Minimum 1 year and Maximum 3 years; offered only in January cycle of admissions.

Fee Structure: Rs.30,000/- for full programme

Programme Details:

The PGDMCH programme consists of six courses. These represent three broad disciplines of conventional medical education system. Course 1 (MME 301), Course 2 (MME 302), Course 3 (MME 303) represent the disciplines of Community Medicine, Obstetries and Gynecology (O&G) and Pediatrics respectively. The respective practical component of these three courses are given in the course 4 (MMEL 301), Course 5 (MMEL 302) and Course 6 (MMEL 303)

Selection Criteria: Five seats in each PSC are reserved for candidates sponsored by a state/central govt. Selection will be made on the basis of merit. A separate merit list will be prepared for each Regional Centre on the basis of the total score of applicants. Separate merit lists will be prepared for different categories as per Central Govt. rules. The scores will be calculated by considering two criteria:
a. Total percentages of marks secured in all MBBS examinations.
b. Total years of experience (Period from the date of completion of internship up to the date of the beginning of the session).

Programme Implementation 

The students will be compulsorily required to attend 28 days of contact sessions in five divided spells at allotted medical college in addition to carrying out practical activities at district hospitals for 180 hours. At present there are 20 medical colleges acting as PSCs which have been listed in the prospectus regional centre wise. There is a maximum of 30 seats at each Programme Study Centre. Please note that students must send their forms to the Regional Centre as per their address of correspondence (refer the operational area of Regional Centres). The programme Study Centre (PSC) once allotted will not be changed except in case of vacancy.
Admission to the Programme is under ‘offline mode’. Applicants are advised to download the Prospectus from the website, print the application form and submit the filled-in application along with relevant documents and registration fee of Rs.400/- (in the form of a DD drawn in favour of IGNOU and payable at the city of the Regional Centre) at the Regional Centre. The selection will be done by way of a merit list. Only selected candidates will be required to pay the Programme Fee within a stipulated date, for which they will receive an intimation from the Regional Centre.
PGDMCH Applicants are required to fill Form A along with the main application.