• For Non-Faculty Candidates
  • Educational Qualification
    • Candidate must have graduate and post graduate degree with at least 60% marks.
    • Medical/Dental candidates must have MD/MS/MDS with at least 60% marks in MBBS/BDS aggregate.
    • Candidates with MD/MS/MDS/DM/MCh degree, who are willing to do the PhD in KGMU may be appointed as senior Resident-I for 3 years and be provided a one-time contingency Grant of Rs. 5.00 lacs for whole duration of their PhD, if selected for enrolment in PhD course.
      For this Candidates will have to sign a bond for completion of Course. Leaving the course in the mid way may involve recovery of salary and a fine upto Rs. 2 lacs based on the decision of the Doctoral Committee which will be appointed for each PhD candidate. The appealent (PhD candidate) can request the Vice Chancellor, KGMU for review of the decision of the Doctoral Committee.
  • Funding Criteria
    • Candidates must either have fellowship from UGC /CSIR /ICMR and the fellowship funds must be sanctioned to KGMU.

      OR

      The candidate has to be employed in extramurally funded project sanctioned to the Guide or Co-Guide of KGMU. The project funds must be sanctioned to the KGMU.
    • Candidates without secure funding will not be registered.
    • No financial assistance in the form of stipend, emoluments, honorarium etc. will be given to the candidate by the University.
• For Internal Candidates
  • Faculty or other staff of KGMU who have completed at least 5 years of service can enroll in the programme through their respective head of department.
  • Such candidates must avail at least one year’s leave to work full time for their research. The nature of leave to be availed will be as per existing University norms.
  • Rest of the rules and regulations are as for non-faculty candidates.
• For External Candidates in Permanent Employment
  • Candidates who are permanent employees of external institutions will have to provide a NOC for applying in PhD program of KGMU from the employers.
  • Also such candidates have to provide a certificate at the time of submission of synopsis from the employer stating that in the event of selection to PhD program the candidate will be granted for a minimum of 2 years study leave with the full pay and permission to work in KGMU, Lucknow.

• Enumeration of Ph.D. Seats :
  • Only ONE candidate per year can be enrolled under each eligible guide (see section 4.d) with a maximum of 5 candidates at any given time. Based on the number of Ph.D. students who have already registered with an eligible Guide, willing to take PhD candidate for the current year, the maximum number of available PhD vacancies within each department for a given year will be counted and communicated by the each Head of Department, to the Dean of respective Faculty in January of each year.
  • For each Department, as done for senior residents, these vacant PhD seats shall be divided as per reservation categories into unreserved, reserved for OBC, and reserved for SC/ST, and so classified. If no eligible reserved candidate is available for a particular seat in a given year, the same can be filled with a candidate from open category.
• Selection Procedure :
  • Entrance Test : For Eligible PhD applicants with secure funding (Excluding those with JRF from UGC/CSIR/ICMR) a PhD Entrance Test in English medium shall be conducted by the University through the Office of the Controller of Examination.
  • Entrance Test will be a written aptitude test in logical thinking, human biology (10+2 level), general awareness, research aptitude and basic computer knowledge (class 10 level). Qualifying marks will be 55% for general, 50% for SC/ST/OBC candidates. The qualified candidates will be called for University Interview.
  • The Entrance Test qualified candidates and JRFs will have to submit an application to the Head of the department of his/her chosen field within 15 days of declaration of result of Entrance Test.
  • Departmental Interview: The qualified candidates along with those with JRF from UGC/CSIR/ICMR will have to appear for interview/s, in the department/s of his/her choice, before a Departmental Interview Committee constituted by Hon’ble Vice Chancellor, under the Chairmanship of Dean of respective faculty. The constitution of Departmental Interview Committee will be as follows :
    • Dean of respective Faculty – Chairperson
    • Vice Chancellor’s Nominee
    • Head of the concerned Department
    • Faculty Members of concerned Department who are eligible and willing to be Guide
    • Faculty Member (Representative of OBC/SC/ST community)
• Registration Procedure :
  • The candidates who have been selected by Departmental Interview Committee shall be considered provisionally registered in the Ph.D. programme after payment of requisite fee.
  • Provisionally registered candidates will have to report to the concerned department and interact with eligible Ph.D. Guides willing to take a PhD candidate for the current year. The student will identify the broad area of PhD work within one month and submit this in writing to the concerned Head of Department.
  • Thereafter, the Departmental Committee under the chairpersonship of respective head will allot a guide to the candidate according to the candidate’s expressed broad area of PhD work and expertise of the guide as well as facilities available with him/her.
  • The Guides will then submit the names for the Doctoral Committee of candidates to the Research Cell. The Doctoral Committee for each PhD scholar will consist of :
    • Guide, KGMU – Convener
    • Co-Guides
    • Expert/s
  • The candidates will have to submit the synopsis to the respective Guide within two months after the Guide is allocated.
  • The Guide will then arrange for Doctoral Committee Meeting for presentation of synopsis submitted by the Ph.D. candidate. The Guide will send the approved synopsis along with the recommendations of Doctoral Committee to the Research Cell, through the respective Head of department, for approval of the Dean and Vice Chancellor.
  • After approval of the Vice Chancellor the student will be considered finally registered in the PhD Program of the University.

Application forms can be obtained free from the Research Cell or downloaded from the KGMUUP web-site "www.kgmcindia.edu". Application forms can only be submitted with the application fees of Rs. 1500.00 submitted as demand draft in the name of "KGMU-PhD Program A/c 1038401" payable in Lucknow. Application fee is non-refundable.

If a candidate does not submit the thesis by 31st July of the next calendar year in which PhD Review Committee recommended submission then s/he will have to pay annual renewal of registration fees.