The All India Institute of Medical Sciences at Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, was created in 1956 as an autonomous institution of national importance through an Act of Parliament, according to its introduction page. A grant from New Zealand under the Colombo Plan allowed its foundation stone to be laid in 1952, following a 1946 recommendation of the Bhore Committee for a national medical centre.
AIIMS awards its own degrees and conducts teaching and research in 42 disciplines. It runs a College of Nursing and 25 clinical departments, including four super specialty centres, and manages a 60 bed hospital at the Comprehensive Rural Health Centre, Ballabgarh, Haryana. Its NIRF 2026 data submission reported 1,190 undergraduate, 2,163 postgraduate and 353 full time PhD students for 2024-25.