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50% rise in PhD enrolments from medical fields in 3 yrs | Mumbai News

Representative image MUMBAI: The number of medical experts, be they neurologists, pharmacists, ayurveds or nurses, enrolling for PhD has been steadily going up. While 5,981 healthcare professionals enrolled for doctoral studies in 2016-17, the corresponding number is 1.5 times that at 9,330 in 2019-20. In 2017-18 and 2018-19, the enrolments for a PhD in the health sciences numbered 7,086 and 7,473, respectively, said the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) released by the HRD ministry recently. For 2019-20, the 9,330 medical postgraduates are enrolled in 48 sub-streams, with the highest number enrolled in pharmacy at 3,536. Ayurveda has 361 and dentistry, 507. At the PhD level, only 153 students are from the general medicine stream while 665 are from nursing.

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