Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata
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| Motto | Template:Lang-la |
|---|---|
Motto in English | Humanity and Science |
| Type | Public medical school |
| Established | 28 January 1835 |
| Founder | Lord William Bentinck |
Academic affiliations | |
| Principal | Raghunath Mishra |
Academic staff | 249 (2022)[1] |
| Students | 1,891 (2022)[1] |
| Undergraduates | 1,245 (2022)[1] |
| Postgraduates | 646 (2022)[1] |
| Address | 88 College Street, Kolkata 700001 22°34′25″N 88°21′43″E / 22.5736°N 88.3619°E |
| Campus | Urban 26 acres (0.11 km2) |
| Website | www |
Calcutta Medical College, officially Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, is a public medical school and hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is the oldest existing hospital in Asia.[2] The institute was established on 28 January 1835 by Lord William Bentinck during British Raj as Medical College, Bengal.
It is the second oldest medical college to teach Western medicine in Asia after Ecole de Médicine de Pondichéry and the first institute to teach in English language. The hospital associated with the college is the largest hospital in West Bengal. The college offers MBBS degree after five and a half years of medical training.
Ranking
| University and college rankings | |
|---|---|
| Medical – India | |
| NIRF (2022)[3] | 43 |
The college was ranked 19th among medical colleges in India in 2019 by Outlook India.[4]
For the first time Medical College, Kolkata ranked 32nd among Medical Institution by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2021.
Medical College, Kolkata ranked 43rd among Medical Institution by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2022.[3]
Politics
Student politics is rooted in tradition, with many students participating in the Indian freedom struggle.[5] Anti-British movements were implemented with the programmes of Bengal Provincial Students' Federation (BPSF),[5] the Bengal branch of All India Students' Federation. Student politics was initially focused on the independence of India.[5] In 1947, Sree Dhiraranjan Sen, a student of the college, died during a Vietnam Day police firing.[6] The Vietnam Students’ Association passed a resolution in its Hanoi session in memory of Sen in March 1947.[7]
Student politics were highly influenced by the partition of Bengal and communal riots during and after the partition of India.[8] Between 1946 and 1952, the college's doctors stood for communal harmony and worked hard in the refugee colonies. During 1952, ex-students of the college, among them Bidhan Chandra Roy who became the second Chief Minister of West Bengal, established the Students' Health Home for the welfare of students.[8][9]
From the 1950s to the 1970s, the college became a centre of leftist and far-left politics.[10] Student politics was highly influenced by the Naxalbari uprising in the early 1970s.[11]
Development
In August 2003, the then union health minister Sushma Swaraj had given the in-principle assented nod to the upgrade of MCH, Kolkata on the lines of AIIMS. [12]
Notable alumni
- Lamu Amatya, First Nepalese nurse[13]
- Pasupati Bose, Indian physician and professor of anatomy
- Upendranath Brahmachari, discoverer of the treatment of Kala-azar
- Aroup Chatterjee, British Indian atheist physician, author of Mother Teresa: The Untold Story
- Nirmal Kumar Dutta, Indian pharmacologist, medical academic and the director of Haffkine Institute
- Lionel Emmett, member of the Indian field hockey team in the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Dipyaman Ganguly, N-Bios laureate[14]
- Kadambini Ganguly, the first certified South Asian female physician qualified for Western medical practice
- Madhusudan Gupta, the first Indian trained in Western medicine to dissect a human corpse.
- David Hare, founder of Hare School
- K. B. Hedgewar, also known as Doctorji, was the founding Sarsanghachalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
- Vikram Marwah – Padma Shri awardee, conferred Dr. B. C. Roy Award by the President of India.
- Kamaleshwar Mukherjee, filmmaker
- M. D. Ray, surgical oncologist and author
- Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay
- N. C. Paul, first physician to examine yoga
- Bidhan Chandra Roy, noted physician and the 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal
- Sisir Kumar Bose, noted paediatrician,nephew of Subhas Chandra Bose and son of Sarat Chandra Bose
- Ram Baran Yadav, first president of Nepal
See also
- Calcutta Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital
- Calcutta Unani Medical College and Hospital
- List of hospitals in India
References
- ^ a b c d "NIRF 2022" (PDF). Medical College, Bengal.
- ^ Bandyopadhyay, Krishnendu (4 October 2018). "Looking back at the oldest surviving block in Asia's medical history". The Times of India. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- ^ a b "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2022 (Medical)". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Education. 15 July 2022.
- ^ "India's Top 25 Medical Colleges In 2019". www.outlookindia.com/. Outlook. 6 June 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
- ^ a b c Dāśagupta, Hīrena; Adhikārī, Harinārāẏaṇa (2008). Bhāratīẏa Upamāhādeśera chātra āndolana [Student Movement in Indian Sub-continent] (in Bengali). Kalakātā: Ryāḍikyāla. ISBN 8185459800.
- ^ Bengal Legislative Council Debates (1947). 1947. pp. 79–88.
- ^ Chattopadhyay, Gautam. ভারতের ছাত্র আন্দোলনের ইতিহাস [History of India's student movement] (in Bengali).
- ^ a b Jha, Purnendu; Banerjee, Naresh (2003). পিপলস্ রিলিফ কমিটি দ্যুতিময় ইতিবৃত্ত [People's Relief Committee:A Glowing Account] (in Bengali). People's Relief Committee. pp. 11, 42–61.
- ^ Chattopadhaya, Pashupatinath (2001). স্টুডেন্টস্ হেলথ হোম(প্রথম দশক) [Students' Health Home (The First Decade)] (in Bengali). Arun Sen Memorial Committee.
- ^ Chakraborty, Shyamal (2011). 60–70 Er Chatra Andolan (in Bengali). N.B.A Pvt Ltd. ISBN 9788176262408.
- ^ Mitra, Saibal. Saater Chhatra Andolon [An essay on Student Movement of Sixties] (in Bengali). ISBN 81-7990-069-X.
- ^ "Calcutta Medical College AIIMS high". The Times of India 01:32 IST. Kolkata. 4 August 2003. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
- ^ "Government declares late Lamu Amatya Nepal's first nurse". thehimalayantimes.com. 1 May 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
- ^ "Profile on SERB" (PDF). Scientific and Engineering Research Board. 27 December 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
Bibliography
- David Arnold, Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth Century India, Delhi, 1993
- Calcutta Medical College, The Centenary of the Medical College, Bengal, 1835–1934. Calcutta, 1935
- Das, Anirban; Sen, Samita (2011). "A history of the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, 1835–1936". In Dasgupta, Uma (ed.). Science and Modern India: An Institutional History, C. 1784–1947. Pearson Education India. pp. 477–522. ISBN 978-81-317-2818-5.
- Poonam Bala, Imperialism and Medicine in Bengal: A Socio-Historical Perspective, New Delhi, 1991
- Sen, S.N., Scientific and Technical Education in India 1781–1900, Indian National Science Academy, 1991
External links
- Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata
- Medical colleges in West Bengal
- Universities and colleges in Kolkata
- Hospitals in Kolkata
- Affiliates of West Bengal University of Health Sciences
- Academic institutions associated with the Bengal Renaissance
- Educational institutions established in 1835
- Hospitals established in 1835
- 1835 establishments in British India