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Indian Medical Association
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AbbreviationIMA
Formation1928
HeadquartersNew Delhi
Location
  • Indian Medical Association, IMA House, I.P. Estate, Next to Vikas Minar, New Delhi - 110002
Region served India
Membership317,458 as of November 30, 2019
National PresidentSahajanand Prasad Singh
Websitewww.ima-india.org

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) is a national voluntary organisation of physicians in India, which looks or cares after the interest of doctors or the well being of the community at large. It was established in 1928 as the All India Medical Association, and was renamed the Indian Medical Association in 1930. It is a society registered under The Societies Act of India.

Background

The Indian Medical Association has approximately 350,000 member doctors in 1,700 active local branches in 29 states and union territories in India. It is the largest association of physicians and medical students in India.

Previously stationed out of Calcutta, the IMA is headquartered in New Delhi. The general control, management and direction of policy is vested in the Central Council, to which local branches send representatives and which meets once a year to lay down policies. It delegates its powers to a Working Committee (a representative body of all state branches) for implementation of programmes and activities. This committee meets at least three times a year to execute various activities for the welfare of members and the people in matters of health.

The Indian Medical Association is one of the 27 founder members of the World Medical Association, joining in 1948. The IMA left the organization in 1985 due to the WMA's retention of South Africa, then a practitioner of apartheid. The IMA rejoined the WMA in 1993. A Reuters investigative report from 2015 found that the IMA had incorrectly told the WMA that charges of corruption brought by the Central Bureau of Investigation against former IMA president Ketan Desai had been withdrawn.

The IMA has expressed opposition to integrated medicine or the mixing together of systems of medicine in curriculum, practice and research in India, often by using the term "mixopathy".

In 2022, Sahajanand Prasad Singh was listed as the national president for the organization. Singh was preceded in the post by surgeon J.A Jayalal from 2020-2021. Longtime member and cardiologist K. K. Aggarwal held several posts within the IMA including president. Ketan Desai served as the organization's head from 2001-2003 following a period when he had been found guilty by Delhi High Court of corrupt practices and abuse of power.

Journal of the Indian Medical Association

The Journal of the Indian Medical Association, (JIMA), is indexed in the Index Medicus. It is a monthly journal and has the largest circulation of all the indexed journals in the world with over 240,000 subscribers for its electronic version. The journal is also available in microfilm through Bell & Howels, US. The Journal was founded by Sir Nilratan Sircar, Bidhan Chandra Roy, Kumud Sankar Ray and other scholars and doyens of the medical profession in 1930. The Journal office is in Calcutta.

Indian Medical Students' Association

On 5 October 2013, the Indian Medical Students' Association was inducted as the official student wing of the Indian Medical Association. It claims to have more than 50,000 members from different medical colleges in the country and aims to promote new endeavours among medical students in India.

See also

References

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