A few pics from our Post graduate days at this very fine institution.

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Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore established in 1955 has grown in stature year after year to attain the present status. It is one of the finest Medical Colleges in the Country, the first of its kind in India in the private sector. The clinical teaching largely occurs in two of the very old Govt. District Hospitals in this part of the Country – a unique feature.
The students are drawn from every nook & corner of the Country. The infra structure facilities of the College are comparable to any international Medical Schools.

KMC, Mangalore is a constituent college of Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), which is a deemed University recognized by an Act of UGC.

KMC has exchange programs with Loma Linda University USA, Operation Eye Sight Universal Canada,Tay Side University Dundee and University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, started functioning in January1955. In the initial years, the medical students studying in Kasturba Medical College were given pre-clinical training at Manipal and clinical training at Mangalore where the state government had made available its hospitals for the clinical training of the students.
In response to the recommendations of the Medical Council of India and the local committees appointed by the Mysore University for the continuation of affiliation, facilities for teaching pre-clinical subjects were provided at Mangalore itself and the Mangalore section became an independent medical college in 1977. The physical facilities and student amenities have been steadily developed over the years.

Milestones

 
1942 The Academy of General Education established
1955 Affiliation of Karnataka University Opening of Kasturba Medical
College, Mangalore
 
1958 Recognition by Medical Council of India
1965 Recognition by the General Medical Council, Great Britain
Affiliation to Mysore University
 
1971 Postgraduate medical courses are started
1977 Mangalore section of the Kasturba Medical College becomes
independent college.
 
1980 Affiliation to Mangalore University
1989 Dr. TMA Pai Rotary Hospital, Mangalore is opened by

• Sri S D Sharma, Vice President of India

• Angiography unit opened by Sri P Shivashankar, Union Minister
for Human Resource Development of India
 

1992 KMC Hospital, Attavar started
1993 Deemed University status awarded to the Manipal Academy of
Higher Education by the Government of India (KMC, Mangalore
is one of the unit of MAHE)
 
1997 KMC, Ambedkar Circle opened.
2001 Center for Basic Sciences opened at Bejai .
2003 The inauguration of the Golden Jubilee year in March 2003
2004

Research Studentship

Clinical Skills Laboratory was opened.

Hospitals were conferred ISO Certificate in June 2004
 

 

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