Jamia Hamdard

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Jamia Hamdard
Jamia Hamdard Logo.svg
Former name
Hamdard Tibbi College (1963–1989)
MottoThe Book And Wisdom
Type Deemed
Established1963;62 years ago (1963)
Founder Hakim Abdul Hameed
Chancellor Hammad Ahmed
Vice-Chancellor M. Afshar Alam [1]
RegistrarSyed Saud Akhtar
Location
South Delhi
,
Delhi
,
110062
,
India
CampusUrban
Nickname Hamdard
Affiliations UGC
Website www.jamiahamdard.edu

Jamia Hamdard is an institute of higher education deemed to be university located in Delhi, India. [2] Founded in 1963 as Hamdard Tibbi College by Hakim Abdul Hameed, it was given the status of deemed to be university in 1989. Its origins can be traced back to a clinic specializing in Unani medicine that was set up in Delhi in 1906 by Hakeem Hafiz Abdul Majeed. [3] In 2019, it was awarded Institute of Eminence status by Ministry of Human Resource Development. [4]

Contents

Campus

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Medical students celebrating Diabetes Day

Library

The library system consists of a central library and six faculty libraries: the faculties of science, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, Islamic studies, and management studies and information technology. The central library is named ‘Hakim Mohammed Said Central Library’, after the younger brother of the founder. He also founded Hamdard University in Pakistan.

It was the great effort of Sayyid Ausaf Ali ( The pioneer Director) under the overall guidance of Hakim Abdul Hamid and great efforts of its first Public Relations Director, Mr Muhsin Ahmad Dadarkar that the University firstly became a deemed University. It took more than ten years of constant follow up with Education Ministry that the Hamdad Institute was recognised as a full fledged University under the banner of Jamia Hamdard.

The library has a manuscript division which has many original Arabic documents including a rare copy of the Holy Quran.

Computer centre

The university has a computer centre which serves as a lab for the Department of Computer Science, containing computing facilities, system analysis units, and all necessary peripherals and requisite software. There are five laboratories in the computer centre, with facilities for their respective development fields.

Scholars' House

The Scholars' House is a guest house for scholars, university guests, outside examiners, members of the selection board, and residential conferences.

It has 12 double-bed rooms, 27 single-bed rooms, and 4 flats.

Convention Centre

The university has a convention centre seating 200.[ citation needed ]

Faculties

Schools of Studies:

Central Instrumentation Facility (CIF)

Central Instrumentation Facility was established in the Faculty of Pharmacy in July 1990 with the installation of L7 Backman Ultra-centrifuge, Sorval Rt-6000 low-speed centrifuge, DU-64 Backman UV-VIS Spectrometer, Perkin-Elmer 8700 Gas Chromatograph, Perkin-Elmer HPLC and Mettler electronic balance. In the year 1992, gamma-counter, beta-counter and DNA Electrophoresis systems were added to the CIF. Perkin-Elmer Lambda-20 Double-beam UV-VIS spectrophotometer, Perkin-Elmer LS-50 luminescence spectrometer, Bio-rad FT-IR spectrometers and mini-computer facility comprising eight computers, Internet and e-mail facilities are also available in CIF.

The objective of CIF is to provide an instrumentation facility to the researchers of Jamia Hamdard, in addition, to train the Ph.D. and M.Pharm/M.Sc. students on various equipment. Jamia Hamdard research students operate instruments themselves for their experiments. Ph.D. students, use CIF during late hours and on weekends to complete their experiments. Several M.Pharm. and Ph.D. scholars have used the CIF for their research.

Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (HIMSR) & Hakim Abdul Hameed Centenary Hospital

Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (HIMSR) and Associated Hakeem Abdul Hameed Centenary Hospital is a private medical school and a teaching hospital in Delhi, India. [9] [10] [11] [12] Established in 2012, it is affiliated to Jamia Hamdard. [13] It offers undergraduate, postgraduate and post-doctoral courses in medical subjects and is ranked among the most prestigious medical schools in India. [14] [15] [16]

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A depiction of Operation Theatre at HAHC Hospital

It was established through a resolution adopted by the Executive Council of Jamia Hamdard in its 60th meeting held in March 2010. [17] In June 2012, the Medical Council of India approved the intake of students for the academic year 2012-13 [18] [19] and the institute graduated its first batch of MBBS students in 2017. [20] The Hakeem Abdul Hameed Centenary Hospital (originally Majeedia Hospital) was subsequently attached to the institute, whose current building was inaugurated in 2016. [21]

HIMSR was one of the several medical colleges that opposed the Supreme Court of India ruling to replace the Medical Council of India with the National Medical Commission in 2017 and asked for the extension of the oversight committee's tenure by a year. [22] [23]

In 2020, Hamdard Laboratories announced that it is planning to conduct clinical trial of its immunity booster medicines to assess their effectiveness against COVID-19. [24] In 2021, Serum Institute of India selected Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research as one of the clinical trial sites for Covovax COVID-19 vaccine. [25] [26] [27] [28]

Departments and courses offered

Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research has 24 departments.

Undergraduate courses

Post graduate courses

The institute conducts research in cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. The Institute started a one-year postgraduate diploma in Preventive Cardiology in collaboration with All India Heart Foundation and the National Heart Institute, New Delhi. The Hamdard Imaging Centre has been established to provide medical imaging under one roof. Free OPD facilities are provided to University students, teaching and non-teaching staff, their family members and very poor people.

Distance Education by Jamia Hamdard

The School of Open and Distance Learning (SODL) of Jamia Hamdard was established in 2004 to promote education through an open and distance learning system. Its flexible and innovative methods of education to ensure 'independent learning' to anyone, anytime and anywhere.

Jamia Hamdard has introduced three online degree courses for students all over India and World. The three online courses are:

Academics

Academic programmes

The university offers graduate and post-graduate programs in Modern Medicine, Unani Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Chemical and Life Sciences,Law, Information Technology, Computer Applications, Business Management, Islamic Studies, Human Rights, federal studies, Paramedical Sciences, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy,Journalism and Media. [29]

It recently launched a new course in Medical Virology to cater to demands for trained virologists in India in Covid Times. [30]

Rankings

University and college rankings
General – international
QS (World) (2023) [31] 1201–1400
QS (Asia) (2023) [32] 451–500
Times (World) (2023) [33] 601–800
Times (Asia) (2022) [34] 301–350
Times (Emerging) (2022) [35] 351–400
General – India
NIRF (Overall) (2023) [36] 78
NIRF (Universities) (2023) [37] 49
Medical – India
NIRF (2023) [38] 29
Pharmacy – India
NIRF (2023) [39] 2

Internationally, Jamia Hamdard was ranked 1201–1400 in the QS World University Rankings of 2023 [31] and 451–500 in Asia. [32] It was ranked 601–800 in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2023, [33] 301–350 in Asia in 2022 [34] and 351–400 among emerging economies. [35]

In India, it was ranked 78th overall by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2020, [36] 49th among universities, [37] 29th in the medical ranking [38] and second in the pharmacy ranking. [39]

Facilities

Jamia Hamdard provides residential facilities for its staff and students, both in and outside the campus. There are nine residential blocks in the campus which are meant for the residence of all categories of the teaching and non-teaching employees.

Jamia Hamdard has separate girls' and boys' hostels. Every hostel has a common room, reading room, dining hall, and visitors’ room. Number of hostels are as follows:

A gymnasium, basketball ground. Playgrounds for cricket and football(5-A side) are also available.

The university has three canteens which are partially subsidized and are run by contractors.

Alumni

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