Making a nation saturated with a logical culture was Jawaharlal Nehru's fantasy, and following autonomy he arranged a fantastic structure to accomplish it. Among the sanctuaries of current India which he structured, was a focal point of brilliance in the restorative sciences. Nehru's fantasy was that such a middle would establish the tone for therapeutic instruction and research in Southeast Asia , and in this he had the wholehearted help of his Health Minister, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. 

The wellbeing review and advancement board of trustees ,led by Sir Joseph Bhore, an Indian Civil Servant ,had in 1946 previously prescribed the foundation of a national restorative focus which would focus on gathering the requirement for profoundly qualified labor to care for the country's extending social insurance exercises . The fantasies of Nehru and Amrit Kaur and the suggestions of the Bhore Committee combined to make a proposition which discovered support with the legislature of New Zealand. A liberal award from New Zealand under the Colombo Plan made it conceivable to establish the framework stone of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in 1952.The AIIMS was at last made in 1956,as an independent organization through an Act of Parliament ,to fill in as a core for sustaining greatness in all part of social insurance. 

All-India Institute of Medical Sciences was built up as an establishment of national significance by an Act of Parliament with the items to create examples of instructing in Undergraduate and Post-graduate Medical Education in the entirety of its branches to exhibit an exclusive expectation of Medical Education in India; to unite in one spot instructive offices of the most noteworthy request for the preparation of work force in exceptionally significant parts of wellbeing movement; and to achieve independence in Post-graduate Medical Education. 

The Institute has complete offices for educating, research and patient-care. As gave in the Act, AIIMS behaviors showing programs in therapeutic and para-medicinal courses both at undergrad and postgraduate levels and grants its very own degrees. Educating and research are directed in 42 orders. In the field of therapeutic research AIIMS is the lead, having in excess of 600 research distributions by its workforce and specialists in a year. AIIMS additionally runs a College of Nursing and prepares understudies for B.Sc.(Hons.) Nursing post-testament) degrees.