Patna, Oct. 7: The newly started medical college at Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) has come up with the idea of inviting guest faculties from top medical colleges in the country to provide MBBS students with the benefits of best medical learning experiences.

Faculties from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and King George’s Medical College, Lucknow are likely to be engaged for the lectures.

Arun Kumar, the director-cum-principal of the IGIMS Medical College, said: “Not that the faculty in our medical college are deficient or inferior but we can always improvise vis-à-vis some of the top medical colleges of the country. Therefore, we are inviting guest lecturers here.”

He said the institutes had given their consent to deliver lectures for the benefit of the MBBS students at IGIMS. “Now, we are in the process of sending them letters formally. To start with, a senior professor from the anatomy department of BHU medical college will visit the institution this month. We will also get our medical college inspected by these visiting professors and ask for their advice on betterment of the institution,” Kumar said, adding that all efforts were on to slowly evolve the medical college into a centre of distinct medical learning.

The institution had started MBBS classes only last week for the newly admitted batch of students. Officials said 96 of the total 100 MBBS seats in the medical college — that was granted permission by Medical Council of India (MCI) to start MBBS courses in the current academic session — had already been filled.

The institution now aims to fill the remaining four seats through third counselling of Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination (BCECE) board by the end of September.

The institution has been in the news for the past few months after controversy arose over mode of admission to the newly conceptualised medical college.

The institution had first planned to conduct an all-India-level entrance examination and had even invited applications for the same but later retreated on its stand and decided to take admission through counselling of students featuring in BCECE merit list.

Following this, a dissenting candidate had even filed a petition in the high court pleading that the admissions in the IGIMS be stayed as the move had dashed the dreams of thousands of students across the country.

The high court had first stayed the admissions but later vacated it, paving way for the admission process to begin as decided by the board of governors of IGIMS.