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The school offers the following courses: Master of
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in 2009 for this purpose. This project got delayed because of the provisions of IIT act 1961, which prohibits IITs from entering into fields like medicine and tussling between different government ministries. The institute was in constant touch with the
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to amend the IIT Act to give IITs autonomy to offer medical courses as well. Finally, the
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and technology. The school began with a 3-year program to train doctors in the engineering aspects of medicine followed by a year of hands-on training. This was followed by a PhD program for research in
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202:Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
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1324:G S Sanyal School of Telecommunications
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790:"Head of the School | SMST"
344:CAD (computer aided diagnostics)
136:MTech in Biomedical Engineering.
117:MSc in Nuclear Medicine (2 yrs)
531:MTech in Biomedical Engineering
448:MTech in Biomedical Engineering
115:MSc in Medical Physics (3 yrs)
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376:Machine Intelligence
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