Medical College, Kottayam

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name = Government Medical College, Kottayam
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address = Medical College, Gandhinagar Kottayam, Kerala, India-680596
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Government Medical College, Kottayam is one of the five government financed medical colleges in Kerala, India. The campus is located about 8 kilometres north of Kottayam in central Kerala.

History

It started functioning in December 1962 as the third of its kind in Kerala. The College which was functioning in District Hospital, Kottayam from 1962 to 1970 was shifted to Arpookkara in April 1970 at the first stage. At the second stage in 1975 all the clinical departments were shifted to the Gandhinagar campus. The same year, the Children's hospital (Institute of Child Health) was taken over and added to it. A new B block (administrative block) was started in 1985. In 1996 the C block was added to the complex housing departments of Pharmacology, Pathology, Microbiology and also a full fledged library and computer and internet facilities.

Campus

The collegiate institutions attached to Medical College Kottayam are
* Medical College Hospital (MCH), Medical College Hospital at Arpookara started functionning on 14 April 1970 with a humble beginning. Later the Medical College campus and surrounding locality were named as 'Gandhinagar'from 1974. Construction of ABC and EFG blocks of MCH were completed during 1969 & 1970 respectively. As an initial step, General Medicine & Surgery Departments were shifted from District Hospital, Kottayam to Arpookara leaving the other departments continue to function at District Hospital to Medical College Hospital Gandhinagar from 1970 to 1975. The bed strength was 837.

* Institute of Child Health (ICH),This is located at about 1.5 km away from the main campus of Medical college hospital. This was established in 1975.It houses the departments of pediatrics and pediatric surgery. It imparts curative and preventive health for children from all districts of central Kerala-Kottayam, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Alapuzha and Ernakulam. The average daily outpatients outpatients being treated in this institution is 500. About 9750 children are also treated as inpatients annually in various specialities. Leukemia Ward [Walli's children cancer care centre] : A newly constructed leukemia ward is commissioned on 29.10.2005 attached to the Institute of Child Health as a sponsored programme. Once the para medical personnel is appointed, the centre will start function soon.

ICH family welfare centre, medical records library and incinerator room are attached to the Institute of Child Health.

* Nursing College (CNK), KottayamCollege of nursing, Kottayam was started in May 1982, as the third Government College of Nursing in Kerala. Prof C. Chandrakanthi assumed charge as the first Director of the College on 20-05-1982. The first batch of 25 students were admitted on 03-01-1983.Since the physical facilities at Kottayam were inadequate, College functioned at College of Nursing, Trivandrum from January 1983 to November 1985. In 1984 when Mahatma Gandhi University came into existence, the College was affliated to MG university. In November 1989, the College was shifted to kottayam with three batches of students and started functioning at the old administrative block of Medical College. The student strength was enhanced from 25 to 50 from 1994 admission onwards.

The new building for the college was inaugurated on 29 June 1997 by A. C. Shanmughadas, former Minister for Health and Family Welfare.

Administration

College of Nursing, Kottayam is a full pledged institution under the Director of Medical Education. The professor & Head (Director) is the administrative head of College of Nursing who is responsible to the DME through principal Medical College, Kottayam. The administration and internal management of the college is vested with the professor and Head.

Medical College Hospital is a multi bedded hospital with 450 Doctors and about 2000 staff members.

Courses Offered

Main courses offered include MBBS , post-graduate training in basic specialities(MD, MS and diploma courses) and super-specialties (DM and MCh) , BDS, BSc Nursing and other paramedical courses.

Other courses

# Four years of BSc Nursing course with 12 months internship
# Three years Diploma in General Nursing and Midwifery
# MSc Nursing course started from 2004,
# Medical Surgical Nursing
# Psychiatric Nursing

Departments

* Anaesthesiology
* Biochemistry
* Forensic Medicine
* General Surgery
* Microbiology
* Nephrology
* Neuro Surgery
* Obstetrics & Gynacology
* Opthalmology
* Orthopaedics
* Paediatric Surgery
* Pathology
* Pharmacology
* Pharmacy
* Physical Education
* Physical medicine & Rehabilitation
* Physiology
* Plastic Surgery
* Radiodiagnosis
* Radiotherapy
* T B and Chest Diseases

Facilities

Through over 36 years the campus has grown into a small township with in house banking facilities, co-operative store, post Office, canteens, hotels, lodging facilities as well as subsidized hostels and accommodations for the faculty.

The bed strength of the Medical College Hospital alone is 1401 - although the Hospital frequently operates at 140-150% capacity. The present facilities available in the Hospital include: round the clock Casualty service, Blood Bank facility, modern lab and imaging services, colour doppler, TMT, holter monitor, haemodialysis, endoscopic & laparoscopic procedures, open heart surgery, specialised pain clinic under anaesthesiology, computerised pulmonary function lab under the Chest & TB dept, cardiac rehabilitation centre under Cardiology dept, specialised trauma care centre, advanced intensive care units for Surgery, Medicine, Cardiac services, Neuro-surgery & Plastic Surgery.. The House Surgeoncy Program has been acknowledged as a rigorous one with multiple training opportunities not readily available in some other Teaching Institutions — ensuring that graduates are well prepared for higher training. In fact, a majority of graduates go on to pursue PG courses- a very commendable fact given the very few seats available for such Higher training in the country.

External links

* [http://kottayammedicalcollege.org/Default.asp Official website]