Mehnaz Rashid's Review On Acharya Shri Chander College Of Medical Sciences, Jammu

JKCET, I appeared for JKCET-2010 and got selected in ASCOMS Jammu through counselling. I live in Srinagar so it was a tough call to go away from home for studies.

The course curriculum is based on the MCI guidelines and is at par with various colleges at the state/national level. ASCOMS is known for its awesome teaching faculty and top class academics.

Our college does provide an internship with a stipend of around 6000/month. The internship schedule is as per the State medical council guidelines. But if you are non-local then it's better to do your internship from a hospital close to your home. I did mine from GMC Srinagar.

Apart from academics, ASCOMS hosts a number of extracurricular events and programs the prime being the "ARRHYTHMIA" fest. The last one I attended was held in 2014 and was a grand success. Various state and national colleges took part in it and it was an extravagant affair.

Every year 10 students belonging economically weaker households are admitted on the basis of income certificate by the D.C. The college also comes under MOMA scholarship and if needed students can easily get loan from various banks also.

The college has an in campus separate hostel for both boys and girls with in hostel mess and other eating places like hospital canteen and café. The hostel is well built with spacious airy rooms but the best is the serene and the peaceful surrounding. The hostelers will be given a triple sharing room for ist year and from 2nd year rooms are alloted on twin sharing basis.College hostel is far better and way cheaper than going for P.G with the advantage of being in campus and better environment.

ASCOMS is known for its academically sound Alumni and ASCOMS passed out doctors are preferred and sought out everywhere. Students from ASCOMS are currently studying, working as well as holding positions of repute in institutions like AIIMS, PGI, SKIMS, GMC Srinagar etc and also internationally in various hospitals of high repute.

I appeared for JKCET-2010 and got selected in ASCOMS Jammu through counselling but from 2017 the admissions will be done through NEET. Since I was a non-local so I had to travel some 300 kms from home but once I was at ASCOMS, the administration was very helpful and patient and with the reason I completed all the formalities and admission process in less than a day and was allotted the hostel as soon as classes started.