Punjab-based Dr Deepika Kainth tops AIIMS DM Neonatology Entrance Exam

When asked as to what motivates her to do her best, she replied that her biggest motivation is the achievers' name board placed at the AIIMS that displays the present and past achievers' name.

Chandigarh: Dr Deepika Kainth, a Nawanshahr-based medico has emerged as the first ranked in the entrance examination conducted by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), in the stream of Doctorate of Medicine (DM) Neonatology.

Through this rank, she has bagged the only seat of DM Neonatology available in AIIMS New Delhi surpassing many medicos, who had come from across the nation to appear for the entrance examination.

Dr Kainth currently practices as a child specialist at the Department of Paediatrics, at AIIMS New Delhi. Her husband is also a doctor at the institute.

She has always been a topper since her school days. Dr Deepika Kainth is a pass out from Shivalik Public School, Nawanshahr Doaba and she completed her graduation is MBBS course from AIIMS New Delhi. After securing good grades in MBBS, she went on to pursue MD Paediatrics from the same institute and for that, she had successfully secured the All India Rank (AIR) in the MD entrance examination in the year 2014.

Last year, on September 25, she was conferred with the 'Best Postgraduate Student Award 2017' in Paediatrics, during the 63rd Foundation Day Celebrations of the AIIMS New Delhi.

She gives utmost credit for her career to her father, Dr SR Kainth, a paediatrician in Nawanshahr. "Following the footprints of my father, I decided to become a paediatrician," she stated adding that that having her father perform his job with utmost care while dealing infants, kids and children, she grew up learning various things about doctors and their profession.

When asked as to what motivates her to do her best, she startlingly replied that her biggest motivation is the achievers' name board placed at the AIIMS that displays the present and past achievers' name.

"I always wanted my name at the top of the achiever board", she told Tribune.

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