{"id":8,"date":"2018-02-21T18:14:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T12:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med-edu.in\/english\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-11-26T18:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T12:50:17","slug":"about-the-department","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dmer.maharashtra.gov.in\/english\/about-the-department\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Department"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<!-- Load Font Awesome for icons -->\n<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/cdnjs.cloudflare.com\/ajax\/libs\/font-awesome\/6.5.0\/css\/all.min.css\">\n\n<style>\n  :root {\n    --primary: #003366; \/* DMER Dark Blue *\/\n    --accent: #0055aa;\n    --bg: #f4f7fb;\n    --text: #1a1a1a;\n    --card-bg: #ffffff;\n    --radius: 16px;\n  }\n\n  * {\n    box-sizing: border-box;\n  }\n\n  .page-wrapper {\n    max-width: 1100px;\n    margin: 0 auto;\n    padding: 2rem;\n    background: var(--bg);\n    color: var(--text);\n  }\n\n  .section {\n    background: var(--card-bg);\n    border-radius: var(--radius);\n    border-left: 6px solid var(--primary);\n    box-shadow: 0 3px 10px rgba(0,0,0,0.05);\n    padding: 2rem;\n    margin-bottom: 2rem;\n    transition: transform 0.2s ease;\n  }\n\n  .section:hover {\n    transform: translateY(-2px);\n    box-shadow: 0 4px 14px rgba(0,0,0,0.08);\n  }\n\n  .section h2 {\n    font-size: 1.9rem;\n    font-weight: 700;\n    color: var(--primary);\n    margin-bottom: 1rem;\n    display: flex;\n    align-items: center;\n    gap: 0.6rem;\n  }\n\n  .section p {\n    line-height: 1.7;\n    font-size: 1rem;\n    margin-bottom: 1rem;\n    text-align: justify;\n  }\n\n  \/* Mobile adjustment: left-align text for better readability *\/\n  @media (max-width: 768px) {\n    .section {\n      padding: 1.5rem;\n    }\n    .section h2 {\n      font-size: 1.6rem;\n    }\n    .section p {\n      text-align: left;\n    }\n  }\n\n  \/* \u2705 Accessible Horizontal\/Grid Bullet Lists *\/\n  ul.custom-list {\n    list-style: none;\n    padding: 0;\n    margin: 0;\n    display: grid;\n    grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(250px, 1fr));\n    gap: 0.5rem 1.5rem;\n  }\n\n  ul.custom-list li {\n    position: relative;\n    padding-left: 1.6rem;\n    line-height: 1.6;\n  }\n\n  ul.custom-list li::before {\n  \/*  content: \"\f111\"; \/* Font Awesome dot *\/\n    font-family: \"Font Awesome 6 Free\";*\/\n    font-weight: 900;\n    color: var(--accent);\n    font-size: 0.6rem;\n    position: absolute;\n    left: 0;\n    top: 1.5em;\n    transform: translateY(-50%); \/* vertical center *\/\n    aria-hidden: true; \/* decorative only *\/\n  }\n\n  @media (max-width: 768px) {\n    ul.custom-list {\n      grid-template-columns: 1fr; \/* stack vertically on mobile *\/\n    }\n    ul.custom-list li::before {\n      font-size: 0.55rem;\n    }\n  }\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"page-wrapper\" lang=\"en\">\n\n  <!-- Introduction -->\n  <section class=\"section\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading1\">\n    <h2 id=\"heading1\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-solid fa-book-open\"><\/i><\/span> Introduction<\/h2>\n    <p>The Directorate of Medical Education and Research came into existence independently on May 1, 1970. The Directorate operates and controls 52 institutions in the state, including 35 government medical colleges, affiliated hospitals, 4 government dental colleges, and 13 nursing colleges.<\/p>\n    <p>The main duty of this department is to provide undergraduate and postgraduate medical education to students of government medical colleges and to make them socially useful doctors. The second duty is to provide necessary facilities in these medical colleges as per the standards of the Indian Council of Medical Sciences and to maintain the standard of education and to provide referral services to the patients. Research on patients, diseases, and related matters is an integral part of this department.<\/p>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <!-- Mission -->\n  <section class=\"section\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading2\">\n    <h2 id=\"heading2\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-solid fa-bullseye\"><\/i><\/span> Mission<\/h2>\n    <p>The Directorate of Medical Education and Research is primarily responsible for imparting medical\/dental education and along with this educational work, it also provides primary and specialized health services through the hospitals attached to the medical colleges.<\/p>\n    <p>The Directorate provides the following education:<\/p>\n    <ul class=\"custom-list\">\n      <li><span class=\"dot-seprate\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>Medical Education<\/li>\n      <li><span class=\"dot-seprate\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>Dental Education<\/li>\n      <li><span class=\"dot-seprate\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>Nursing Education<\/li>\n      <li><span class=\"dot-seprate\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>Para-medical Education<\/li>\n    <\/ul><br>\n    <p>Maharashtra is a developed state in the country for medical education and education is provided in the faculties of Allopathy, Ayurveda, Dentistry, Homeopathy, and Unani. A total of 350 colleges are available in all these faculties and these colleges belong to government, semi-government, private aided\/unaided, and recognized universities.<\/p>\n    <p><strong>These colleges provide facilities for education in all specialties and super-specialties such as:<\/strong><\/p>\n    <ul class=\"custom-list\">\n      <li><span class=\"dot-seprate\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>Heart Disease Therapy<\/li>\n      <li><span class=\"dot-seprate\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>Heart Surgery<\/li>\n      <li><span class=\"dot-seprate\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>Urology<\/li>\n      <li><span class=\"dot-seprate\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>Neurology \/ Neurosurgery<\/li>\n      <li><span class=\"dot-seprate\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>Pediatric Surgery<\/li>\n      <li><span class=\"dot-seprate\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>Plastic Surgery<\/li>\n      <li><span class=\"dot-seprate\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>Gastroenterology<\/li>\n      <li><span class=\"dot-seprate\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>Other Medical Specialty Services<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <!-- Vision -->\n  <section class=\"section\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading3\">\n    <h2 id=\"heading3\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-solid fa-eye\"><\/i><\/span> Vision<\/h2>\n    <ul class=\"custom-list\">\n      <li><span class=\"dot-seprate\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>To produce qualified doctors by teaching courses in modern medicine systems, such as allopathic and dental, from government medical colleges.<\/li>\n      <li><span class=\"dot-seprate\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>Treating the patient with modern medical science according to the allopathic treatment method.<\/li>\n      <li><span class=\"dot-seprate\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>To make these modern treatment methods popular among the citizens and try to make more and more patients disease-free.<\/li>\n      <li><span class=\"dot-seprate\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>To conduct research in various government colleges in allopathic\/dental systems and to provide the citizens with the benefits of this research by utilizing other innovative research methods from around the world.<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n  <\/section>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-featured-image","page-entry","loop-entry boxed clr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmer.maharashtra.gov.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmer.maharashtra.gov.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmer.maharashtra.gov.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmer.maharashtra.gov.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmer.maharashtra.gov.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/dmer.maharashtra.gov.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10542,"href":"https:\/\/dmer.maharashtra.gov.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/10542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmer.maharashtra.gov.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}