LUCKNOW, Nov. 13 -- King George's Medical University (KGMU) has received in-principle acceptance from the National Medical Commission (NMC) to introduce India's first Doctorate of Medicine (DM) programme in Trauma Critical Care. The commission has asked the university and concerned authorities to prepare a competency-based curriculum for the proposed course. The initiative aims to address the shortage of specialists trained in managing critically injured patients and strengthen advanced trauma care services across the country, stated a press release shared with the media on Thursday. The programme will be spearheaded by Dr Zia Arshad, professor and in-charge of Trauma Critical Care in the department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care. KGMU plans to leverage its Level-I Trauma Centre, which handles a substantial number of trauma cases and receives the highest trauma patient load in Uttar Pradesh, for clinical training, it stated. In another development, the NMC has approved 23 additional postgraduate seats across broad specialties at the university. Radiology seats have increased from 9 to 13 annually, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) from 5 to 8, and Biochemistry from 2 to 18. The university has also received NMC approval for its DM course in Pain Medicine and will submit the competency-based curriculum as the next step....