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Madras Medical College, Chennai

A private medical hall run by Dr. Mortimar was regularised as a medical school and it was opened by Sir Fredrick Adams, the then Governor of Madras on 2nd February 1835. The Governor promulgated an order to make the school a state sponsored one and attached it to the General Hospital.

In 1842 the Hospital opened its doors to Indians. In the next two decades, the teaching staff had increased, the duration of the course extended and the curriculum was made comprehensive. Senior courses spanning 5 years was started and private people were also admitted for the first time in the institution.

In the early part of 1850 the school council submitted proposals to the government to accord the status of a College. The Government granted this request and from 1st October 1850 it became Madras Medical College.

The Government General Hospital, one of the premier Institutions in the country was started on 16th November 1664 as a small Hospital to treat the sick soldiers of the East India Company. It was the untiring inspired efforts of Sir Edward Winter who was the agent of the company that materialised in the first British Hospital at Madras.

In its early days the Hospital was housed at the Fort St. George and in the next 25 years grew into a formal medical facility. Governor Sir. Elihy Yale was instrumental in the development of the Hospital and gave it a new premises with in the Fort in 1690.

The Hospital moved out of the Fort after the Anglo French War and it took 20 long years before it could settle in the present permanent place in 1772. By the year 1772 the Hospital was training Europeans, Eurasians and natives in allopathic methods of diagnosis and treatment and methods of preparing medicines. These trained personnel's were posted to various dispensaries in the district head quarters of the then Madras Presidency to assist the qualified doctors. By 1820 the institution had the recognition as the model hospital of the East India Company. So in 1827 Dr. D.Mortimar was appointed as the Superintendent of the Hospital.

Departments

1. Anatomy 21. Neuro Surgery
2. Physiology 22. Neurology
3. Bio Chemistry 23. E.N.T.
4. Pharmocology 24. Audiology
5. Microbiology 25. Nephrology
6. Pathology 26. Plastic Surgery
7. Forensic Medicine 27. Urology
8. Community Medicine 28. Medical Gastroenterology
9. Internal Medicine 29. Surgical Gastroenterology
10. Rheumatology
30. Anaesthesia
11. Immunology 31. Diabetology
12. Oncology 32. Dermatology
13. Blood Transfusion 33. Mycology
14. Haematology 34. Leprosy
15. Surgery 35. Venerology
16. Vascular Suregery 36. Serology
17. Orthopaedics 37. Sexually Transmitted Diseases
18. Bernard Institute of Radiology 38. Geriatric medicine
19. Cardiology 39. Geriatric Surgery
20. Cardiothoracic Surgery 40. Surgical Endocrinology.

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