NIMHANS Entrance Exam 2019: Session 2 Dates, Application Form, Admit Card

NIMHANS Entrance Exam Online Registration for session 2 has been started from 1 August 2019 and will end on 31 August 2019. NIMHANS is one of the most prestigious institutes for Post Graduate Medical Studies in India. About 20,000 candidates take the NIMHANS entrance exam for entry into 6 years DM/MCh and 3 years MD Psychiatry at NIMHANS. National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences is the conducting body of NIMHANS 2019. Each year, the authority organizes this entrance exam for offering admission to the courses like PhD, Post Doctoral, Superspeciality, Post Graduate, PG Diploma Courses; DCNT / CCNT / DPN / DNN and B.Sc. Candidates, who are willing to take admission in NIMHANS 2019 or are interested in NIMHANS 2019 admission, should go through the official notification and apply accordingly. The exam will be held online and it includes multiple-choice questions.

Latest Update:

• NIMHANS Entrance Exam for Session 2 has been started from 1 August 2019 and will end on 31 August 2019. 

NIMHANS 2019 Important Dates

Session 1:

Event	Date
Publication of Advertisement for Admission	17 January 2019
Commencement of Online Registration	17 January 2019
Closure of Online Registration	16 February 2019
Online Entrance Exam	30 – 31 March 2019
Result	Available
Interview and Counseling	28 – 30 May 2019
Commencement of Courses	01 July 2019

 

Session 2

Events	Date
Publication of Advertisement for Admission	01 August 2019
Commencement of Online Registration	01 August 2019
Closure of Online Registration	31 August 2019
Online Entrance Exam	20 October 2019
Interview and Counseling	04 November 2019
Commencement of Courses	01 January 2020

 

Official website : www.nimhans.ac.in

Download: NIMHANS Prospectus 2019-20 PDF / Admission Brochure PDF

NIMHANS 2019 Eligibility Criteria

Candidates must satisfy the required eligibility criteria before applying for the exam. The information is given below about eligibility criteria.

Educational Qualification:

Courses	Required Education
DM Degree in Neuroimaging and Interventional Radiology	Should have done three years MD/DNB courses in Radiodiagnosis
DM Degree in Neurology	Should have done five years post-MBBS degree or three years Post MD/DNB in Internal (General) Medicine or Paediatrics
DM Degree in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry/ Addiction Psychiatry/ Geriatric Psychiatry	Three years MD/DNB course in Psychiatry
DM Degree in Neuroanaesthesia	Three years MD/DNB course in Anaesthesia
DM Degree in Neuropathology	Three years MD/DNB course in Pathology
M.Ch. Degree in Neurosurgery	Should have done five years post-MBBS degree or three years Post MD/DNB in General Surgery
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry	MD/DNB course in Psychiatry
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Neuroanaesthesia	MD/DNB course in Anaesthesia
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Neurocritical Care	Should have done MD/DNB in Anaesthesia/ DM in Neuro anaesthesia/ DNB in Neurosurgery /MD in Internal Medicine/ DM/DNB in Neurology or M.Ch.

Age limit

• For PG Medical and Super speciality programmes, the age of candidates should not be more than 32 years (for MBBS degree holders) and 35 (for PG Medical degree holders).
  There will be a relaxation of 5 years (in the case of SC/ST) and 3 years (OBC candidates) in upper age limit.
• In case of sponsored/deputed candidates, the age should not be more than 45 years as on the date of commencement of courses.
• Employees of NIMHANS, who are interested or willing to apply for PhD, before registering for PhD should have at least 10 years of service.

How to apply Application Form?

The Interested and Eligible candidates can obtain the NIMHANS Application forms for all the courses through online mode only via visiting the NIMHANS official website. It should be noted that candidates have to be filled and submitted via online mode. No other mode will be entertained excepted online. The candidates who are Eligible or come under the Eligibility criteria can apply for a maximum of three courses only.

The Online application form of NIMHANS involves the following process:

• Online Registration
• Subscription
• Entering basic details
• Eligibility details
• Uploading of photograph, signature and documents
• Preview
• Application fee payment
• Print of application

The candidates need to submit their application, apart from an online application through proper channel and they should also appear for the Common Entrance Test. Such candidates have to produce the sponsorship certificate in the prescribed format and must upload it along with the online application.

Application fee:

Candidates can pay the fee through Debit/Credit cards online.

Category	For PG Courses	For UG Courses
General/OBC/Foreign Applicants	Rs. 1500 (Per Course)	Rs. 1,000 (Per Course)
SC/ST Category	Rs. 1,000 (Per Course)	Rs. 750 (Per Course)
PwD Category	No Application fee	No Application Fee

NIMHANS 2019 Admit Card (Session 2)

Admit card of NIMHANS will only be available online at the official website. Eligible candidates who applied for the exam can download the NIMHANS 2019 admit card by putting their application number and password in the required fields. Admit Card will not be sent via post individually.

NIMHANS Seats Matrix

The National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences courses and seat matrix is given below:

Doctorate in Medicine (DM)

• Neuroimaging and Interventional Radiology: 04 Seats (01 seats for sponsored)
• Neurology: 10 seats
• Child & Adolescent Psychiatry: 04 Seats (02 seats for sponsored)
• Addiction Psychiatry: 02 Seats
• Neuroanaesthesia: 04 Seats
• Neuropathology: 02 Seats (01 seats for sponsored)
• Geriatric Psychiatry: 02 Seats

Mch

• Neurosurgery: 06 seats

MD

• Psychiatry: 37 Seats

1. i) 21 seats – All India selection
2. ii) 08 seats – Domiciles of Karnataka

iii) 06 seats – Candidates from Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura & Uttarakhand domicile only

1. iv) 02 seats – Sponsored candidates of which one seat is for the domicile of Karnataka, if sponsored candidates are not available, the seats will go to the general pool, Decided not necessarily state-wise but solely on overall Merit.

• Neurology: 4 seats
• Neurosurgery: 4 seats

NIMHANS 2019 Selection Criteria

Mode of Selection:  National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences selection criteria for PG courses is Online Entrance Test + Verification of Original Certificates on the day of admission.

Name of Course	Mode of Selection	Cutoff in online entrance exam

NIMHANS Entrance Exam 2019

• NIMHANS is an online objective pattern PG Entrance Exam conducted for admission to direct M.Ch. Neurosurgery/DM Neurology and MD Psychiatry courses.
• For all these courses a common entrance exam is conducted and a separate Merit list is published for every course.
• The exam is conducted twice a year – for the January and the July session.

NIMHANS 2019 Result

The result will be released on the official website. Students can check their result online. The result will be released after a few days of the examination. It will be released in the form of merit list.

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