Seats Available for Admission into PG Courses:

Reservation of Seats:

Allotment of the reserved seats for SC, ST, Physically Challenged  candidates will be in accordance with the existing Govt. orders. Till the date of issue of this Information Booklet reservation for seats for OBC candidates are restricted to NIH only. Existing policy of reservation  is as following.

Eligibility criteria:

• Candidates who have passed B.H.M.S. degree, Graded B.H.M.S. degree from any recognized University from anywhere in India (affiliated by Central Council of Homoeopathy and included in 2nd schedule) would be entitled for admission to any of the three colleges viz. National Institute of Homoeopathy, Salt Lake, Kolkata; D. N. De Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, 12, Gobinda Khatick Road, Kolkata - 700 046 and Mahesh Bhattacharya Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Drainage Canal Road, Doomurjola, Howrah – 4 as per provisional merit list prepared by the University.
• The candidates who have completed or will complete their rotating internship for one year after passing the B.H.M.S examination (6 months in case of Graded B.H.M.S. Examination) on or before 20.04.2012 are eligible to apply.
• Application for admission to MD (Homoeopathy) Courses will not be accepted unless the candidates have got themselves registered (Provisional or Permanent) with any State Council of Homoeopathy or Central Council of Homoeopathy.
• Candidates who are already pursuing any other course are not eligible for admission till they complete the course or are likely to complete the course within 30.04.2012. However, candidates, pursuing any other course, are permitted to apply, but their candidature will have to be validated during counselling only on production of their resignation letter from the course undertaken, duly countersigned and accepted by the appropriate authority.
• Candidates who have already been conferred MD (Homoeopathy) in one discipline/course is considered eligible for the Courses. But award of Post Graduate stipend for second term is, if any ,  under jurisdiction of respective State Government or Central Government.
• Two (2) seats in National Institute of Homoeopathy (N.I.H) are reserved for BIMSTEC countries. No candidate will be allowed to get admitted from the merit list in the said two seats. In case, no candidate is sponsored by ICCR / Department of AYUSH, Government of India, the seat(s) shall remain vacant.

Written test / PG Entrance Exam/ MD Admission test details:

a.     A written test will be conducted by the WBUHS to prepare category / caste-wise merit lists of the eligible candidates seeking admission to the MD (Homoeopathy) Courses.

b.    Applicant for admission will be provisionally allowed to appear in the written test provided s/he has submitted her/his applications in the prescribed form with requisite fees etc. and has fulfilled the eligibility criteria outlined above.

c.    The question paper for the written test shall be set in English and shall contain 100 single best response type Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs).

d.    The following is the list showing the tentative number of questions from different subjects which will be set in the written test:

1.     Anatomy,  Physiology,  Paediatrics, F.M.T ,  Community Medicine,  Surgery, Obst. & Gynae and Pathology - 50 nos.

2.     Practice of Medicine, Case taking & Repertory, Materia Medica, Homoepathic Pharmacy and Organon of Medicine & Philosophy - 50 nos.

e.    The duration of the written test will be of 80 minutes.

f.    A candidate will be awarded one (1) marks for each correct answer. No mark will be deducted for incorrect answer. No mark will be given  more than one response  for a question. No deduction of mark will be made for questions not attempted.

g.    Candidates who will secure a minimum of 40 marks in the written test for the seats reserved for SC and ST candidate , 45 marks  for OBC candidates and minimum of 50 marks  for general categories candidates will be empaneled for selection.

Merit list of candidates

a.    The rank of the candidates qualifying in the written test will be determined on the basis of the marks obtained by them in the WBPGHAT-2012. The roll numbers of the candidates qualifying in the written test will be arranged in the merit list according to rank and in order of decreasing marks in different categories.

b.    In the event of more than one candidate securing the same marks in the written test, the rank shall be determined according to the following principles:

1. The relative position of such candidates in the merit list will be determined on the basis of the number of incorrect answers, i.e., the candidate with lesser number of incorrect answers will be placed in the higher position in the merit list.

2. If the ranks of the candidates cannot be determined by application of the above principle, the candidate older by age will be in the higher rank than the candidate younger by age.

c.    There shall be separate lists also indicating the merit wise position for the SC / ST / OBC / Physically Challenged candidates. Admission in the OBC category is restricted to National Institute of Homoeopathy (NIH).

Counseling Information:

Counseling for selection of candidates for admission will be held  immediate after inclusion of BHMS Degree in the Second Schedule  of C.C.H Act 1973 for the students who passed 4^th BHMS  examination on  21 January, 2011 ( date of publication of result)  and 4^th BHMS  (supplementary) on 12 April , 2011 and now  have been  undergoing internship. These category of students are also appearing at this admission test.

a.     Admission to Post Graduate Homoeopathy Courses will be made through personal appearance (counseling) strictly according to the time schedule to be published by WBUHS. The candidates will be called in order of merit.

b.    The provisional merit list as well as the date and time of counseling will be available at the notice-board  of  WBUHS and its website. No separate information will be sent to individual candidate in this regard.

c.    Candidates selected for admission through counseling shall have to get themselves admitted within the  specified date to be mentioned in the offer letter to be issued after counseling.

d.    As the reservation policy of admission at National Institute of Homoeopathy and the State Government Institutions differs, there will be two separate counseling.

e.    A candidate will have to appear in person before the selection committee on the date of counseling; otherwise he / she will be marked absent and his/ her candidature will stand cancelled.

f.    However, in case a candidate is unable to appear in person on the day of counseling, he/she may send his/her authorized representative with an Undertaking and Authority Letter for allotment (proforma for Undertaking and Authority Letter will be available in the University website from the day of publication of results), along with required original documents and fees. The allotment made to the authorized representative shall be binding on the candidate.

g.    The candidate appearing for counseling will have to bring the following original documents along with their attested copies:
(The following documents will have to be produced to participate in the counseling)

(i)         WBPGHAT Admit Card in original

(ii)        BHMS/Graded BHMS Degree/ Provisional passing certificate.

(iii)       Internship completion certificate

(iv)       Permanent/ Provisional Registration Certificate issued by State Council of Homoeopathy or Central Council of Homoeopathy.

(v)       School leaving certificate as proof of age

(vi)       SC/ST/PC/OBC certificate [For OBC, current certificate be provided ]

(vii)      Duly accepted resignation letter from previous course, if any.

(viii)     Any other relevant document.

(ix)       EPIC/PAN as photo identity card.

h.    The number of seats available for allotment, with their subject-wise break-up, is detailed in the information booklet. Information in this regard may also be available in WBUHS website www.thewbuhs.org prior to counseling.

i.     The candidates will have the right to choose any one of the available seats at his/ her rank at that point of time and the same will be allotted to him/ her.

j.     The allotment made will be firm and final. Change of subject is not permitted. Therefore, request for the same will not be entertained by the WBUHS after the allotment.

GENERAL RULES AND PROCEDURAL DIRECTIVES

1. Applicants should go through and strictly follow the instructions given in the Information Booklet as published in www.thewbuhs.net in February 2012, while applying for Post Graduate courses in different subjects. Application must be complete in all respect.
2. All applications are to be submitted on line at the website www.thewbuhs.org (See ‘Guidelines for Submission of Application’ in Page -7 )
3. The Print-copy of the application along with a crossed Demand Draft of Rs. 1000/- in favour of ‘The West Bengal University of Health Sciences’ payable at Kolkata , photographs embossed with current date after 21 February, 2012 and photocopy of photo identity card (voter identity/ PAN card) is to be submitted either by hand ( on or before 7 March. 2012) or by Speed/ Registered post ( on or before 7 March, 2012 provided bank draft is made in favour of the University on or before 7 March, 2012) to the office ( of the ‘Controller of Examinations, The West Bengal University of Health Sciences, DD-36, Sector-I, Salt Lake, Kolkata- 700064’. In other words, the application must reach the office of the WBUHS within the last date as mentioned in the schedule Candidate is requested to write their name and cell no. on the back of the bank draft.
4. No other document is to be submitted with application form.
5. Submission of incorrect or false statements / documents or suppression of material information in the application form will be considered as sufficient ground for cancellation of the candidature or the admission of the candidates to a Post Graduate course whenever detected, i.e. during the process of admission or even at any stage thereafter.
6. The selection / admission of a candidate shall stand cancelled if he / she is found guilty of copying from any material whatsoever or of taking the help of any electronic media / devices including cell phone during the examination, or of assisting others or of being assisted by others in any manner whatsoever in writing out the answers during the examination. In this context, decision of the Centre-in-charge and/or University Observers will be final and binding.
7. Any impersonation through morphing of photograph or otherwise  if found at any stage of processing of  Admission and even during pursuing course, his/her candidature will be cancelled and appropriate action will be taken.
8. Admit Card will be downloaded on and from 21.03.2012 from the website www.thewbuhs.net . If any candidate is not able to download s/he will write to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it the Controller of Examinations, WBUHS, according to the time schedule mentioned in this booklet, for issuance of the duplicate Admit Card. He has to prove his identity with the same document as has been submitted as proof of identity with his / her application form.
9. Answering the Multiple Choice Questions will be through Optical Mark Recognition (OMR).

Guidelines for Submission of Application

1. A candidate seeking admission through WBPGHAT is required to submit his/ her application online by logging on to www.thewbuhs.net.  Application submitted by all other means will be summarily rejected.

2. The candidate will, first of all, visit the university website www.thewbuhs.net through internet. He is required to go through the relevant ‘Information Booklet’ carefully and acquaint himself / her with all requirements regarding filling in the application form.

3. In the homepage he/ she will get a link ‘WBPGHAT (MD Homoeopathy Admission Test), 2012’.

4. Fill in the ‘Online Application Form’ carefully by selecting appropriate options or by typing in appropriate places. Please do not skip any point. Then click ‘Update’ at the bottom of the page to see what you have entered.

5. Please check the details of your entry in the next page. If you want to change anything click ‘Edit’ at the bottom to go to the previous page to make necessary corrections and then again click ‘Update’. Otherwise the button ‘Print’ is to be clicked.

Please keep photocopies of those pages for your record. Submit the form afresh if you do not get any ‘Serial No.’. Application Forms without ‘Serial No.’ and missing data will not be entertained.

SOURCES:

The West Bengal University of Health Science website: http://www.thewbuhs.org , http://www.thewbuhs.net/
Download Booklet from University Website: www.thewbuhs.org/Information_Booklet/IB_2011/IB_WBPGDAT-12.doc

Download Booklet from Our website (Cure Circle): regulations wbpghat 2012.pdf or regulations wbpghat 2012.doc

Fill Your Application form Here: http://www.thewbuhs.net/Homoe.aspx