According to Lt Gen S K Kaul, Director and Commandant, AFMC, for the first time in the history of the college, a medical cadet will command the parade. Med Cdt Nitin Kaushal has been selected for this singular honour. He hails from Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh. After studying at Sainik School, Sujanpur, he joined AFMC in 2003, inspired by a desire to serve the nation. The reserve parade commander will be Med Cdt Ravi Prakash.

The commissioning ceremony at AFMC is a unique event, being the only such ceremony in any medical college in India. The selection of a medical cadet for the coveted command of the most important annual ceremony at AFMC marks yet another milestone in the paradigm shift towards student centric training at this premier institution.

According to Maj Gen G Rajagopal AVSM, Dean and Deputy Commandant, AFMC, out of 98 cadets including twenty-one ladies, ninety three will be commissioned into the army, two into the air force and three into the navy. The Graduate Wing of the Armed Forces Medical College was established on 04 Aug 1962. The first commissioning ceremony was held at AFMC in 1982. These newly commissioned officers will join the ranks of more than five thousand graduates of this institution.

This year, AFMC has upheld its long tradition of academic excellence. In the recently concluded Maharashtra University Of Health Sciences (MUHS) examinations, students of AFMC scored a pass percentage of 100 per cent in I MBBS, 100 per cent in II MBBS, 100 per cent in III MBBS (Part - I) and 95.34 per cent in III MBBS (Part - II).