Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, Indore

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Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, Indore
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Other name
MGM Medical College, Indore
Former name
King Edward Medical School (1878-1947)
Type Government Medical college and hospital
Established1878;146 years ago (1878)
Academic affiliations
Madhya Pradesh Medical Science University
Dean Dr. Sanjay Dixit
Undergraduates 250 per year
Postgraduates 282 per year
Location,
22°42′50″N75°52′59″E / 22.714°N 75.883°E / 22.714; 75.883
Website http://www.mgmmcindore.in/

Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Medical College, Indore also known as MGM Medical College, is one of the oldest and premier public medical colleges in India. Previously known as King Edward Medical School, established in the year 1878, was one of the earliest medical schools in Asia. It was converted into a medical college in 1948. Its teaching hospital Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital was established in 1955.

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MBBS degrees were started from 1948 and selection done made through competitive exams. MD and MS degrees were started in the institution way back in 1953. [1] MGM Medical College, Indore, had many pioneers in the field of Pediatrics, General Medicine, Surgery and subspecialities were started as early as in 1950. MGMMC conducted the First All India Pediatrics Conference in 1955. A cardiology division was constructed in 1959 which conducted heart surgeries for poor people. MGM Medical College is one of the founder medical colleges associated with National Medical Library of India and RHD registry under ICMR.

Indore was once the centre of health care in western India. Central India's first medical institution, King Edward Medical School, was established here as early as 1878 and Indore charitable hospital was started early in 1847. The hospital is named after Yashwantrao Holkar, Maharaja of Indore, the last Holkar ruler. When it was inaugurated in 1955, it was Asia's largest government hospital and largest hospital till date in central India.

It is the first government hospital to be computerised. Its first dean was Dr. Bose, who was the head of department of pharmacology.

Departments

  1. Department of Anaesthesiology
  2. Department of Anatomy
  3. Department of Biochemistry
  4. Department of Cardiology
  5. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
  6. Department of Dental Surgery
  7. Department of Dermatology
  8. Department of Emergency Medicine
  9. Department of Forensic Medicine
  10. Department of Gastroenterology
  11. Department of General Surgery
  12. Department of Medicine
  13. Department of Microbiology
  14. Department of Nephrology
  15. Department of Neurology
  16. Department of Neurosurgery
  17. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  18. Department of Ophthalmology
  19. Department of Orthopaedics
  20. Department of Otorhinolaryngology
  21. Department of Paediatric Surgery
  22. Department of Paediatrics
  23. Department of Pathology
  24. Department of Pharmacology
  25. Department of Physiology
  26. Department of Plastic Surgery
  27. Department of Psychiatry
  28. Department of Radiology
  29. Department of Radiotherapy
  30. Department of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  31. Department of Community Medicine
  32. Department of Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases
  33. Department of Urology

Total bed strength of 7 associated hospitals under MGM Medical College is around 2900. M. Y. Hospital has 1300 beds with all the major medical departments: surgery, medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, dermatology, [2] chest and TB, orthopaedics, E.N.T., ophthalmology, radiology, anaesthesiology, paediatrics, forensic medicine, and casualty, and superspeciality branches. Hospital has 25 bedded MICU, ICCU,15 hemodialysis machines, endoscopy unit. There are SICU, NICU, PICU, burn units, and surgical superspeciality units in M Y Hospital.This hospital gives special privilege to poor under a central government aided scheme.

It holds the reputation of a biggest tertiary care center in Central India and many government health schemes are operated by its social medicine department.

This seven-storied government hospital is surrounded by a group of hospitals in MYH campus: 200-bedded Chacha Nehru Children's hospitals, 100-bedded M.R. TB hospital, 100-bedded cancer hospital, 600 bedded superspeciality hospital, 500 bedded MTH Women's hospital. The old KEM school is on this campus. It has a 100 bedded psychiatric hospital associated with it which is in Badganga, Indore. 125th anniversary of old King Edward Medical School & MGM Medical College, Indore was celebrated in 2003.

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References

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