Rural Medical College, Pravara

There are five main study programs with in the PIMS: medicine, dentistry, physiotherapy and rehabilitation, nursing, and para-medical (medical laboratory technology, x-ray technology, dental technology, and dental hygiene).

These programs gain insights into each other's skills and abilities.

To promote a team attitude among health care professionals in a unified group all the programs are offered in a single campus. At present the only one of its kind in India. Medical Program

The Rural Medical College since its inception in 1984 - first of its kind in India, is dedicated to serving society as a center of excellence with emphasis on socially meaningful medical education, research and health care.

It was the culmination of determined efforts of Shri Balasaheb Vikhe Patil. The idea was to provide an opportunity to the rural meritorious children to become quality, appropriate and need based health providers in their own environment.

Added advantage was improved accessibility of tertiary and critical care to the rural poor.

The college offers undergraduate course in medicine (M.B.B.S) and postgraduate degree (M.D/M.S) and diploma programmes in 20 medical disciplines. The sanctioned annual intake to the M.B.B.S programme is 125. The courses offered is a perfect blend of community oriented, problem based learning with high quality clinical reasoning.

The college was permanently affiliated to Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik as well as University of Pune till it became a constituent unit of this University in 2003. The College as well as the undergraduate and postgraduate course offered was recognized by Medical Council of India. They are also recognized by General Medical Council, U.K and listed by World Health Organization, Geneva. The College has promoted international collaborations in all the thrust areas - medical care, education and research.

Pioneer in Problem Based Learning (PBL)

The College is a pioneer in the country to introduce Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in undergraduate medical programme. The PBL curriculum is being developed and implemented under the guidance and collaboration of Faculty of Health Sciences, Linkoping University, Sweden. College Faculty has undergone training in PBL at Linkoping. Educational experts from Linkoping regularly visit the institute to conduct workshops/training programmes for the Faculty.

The institute has been in the process of blending the ongoing teaching methods such as Community Oriented Medical Education (COME), integrated teaching, micro teaching, and project based learning, into the PBL. The institute is planning to extend the PBL to other health sciences programs like dentistry, physiotherapy, nursing and para-medical.