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Kilpauk Medical College is one of the medical schools in Madras [CHENNAI], INDIA. Many students who passed out of KMC have gone abroad for higher education and settled there, while some have returned back to their grass roots.
The links provided below would give email addresses of former KMCites to others visiting this site.
If you would like to place any links in these pages, please send me an email. You are welcome to send any suggestions, comments, information or photographs for these pages to my email address kumarashok@pol.net. This website was created in 1995 to get the KMCites together in one place and to interact with each other.If you have any suggestions, please send do not hesitate to send me an email. I belong to the 1978-85 batch.
Hai Everyone. You will obtain information of former KMCites from this and many of the following home pages. When I thought that I had gone to the earliest year a former KMC student would have completed training and passed out - I was wrong. I had to create a new page! Recently I got an e-mail from a former KMC student who is now in the United Kingdom informing me that he passed out of the ?first batch in 1960!!!. I was thrilled to receive that and I have included his name below - who will be the first of all the thousands of names[eventually] of former KMCites.
Government Kilpauk Medical College was founded in 1960 by the government of Tamil Nadu, and also by the Kilpauk Medical College and Hospital premises. The college is having its affiliation with the renounced Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR medical university and offers a number of undergraduate and postgraduate programs to the candidates. The college provides excellent training and state of art infrastructure facility to its students.
HISTORY
Government Kilpauk Medical College and Hospital History of its existence
1925 In response to the feeling of Nationalism and keeping alive the ancient systems of indigenous medicine the school of Indian medicine was started. The degree conferred at this institution was L.I.M.
1947 In accordance to the recommendations of the Usman Committee, Chopra Committee and the Pundit Committee of Government of Madras and Government of India, the character of the institute was changed, upgraded and named as College of Indian Medicine. The College gave the degree as G.C.I.M.
1948 The College was again renamed as College of Indigenous Medicine and one of the three systems of Indigenous Medicine, Ayurvedha-Siddha-Unani, should be chosen by each candidate who joins GCIM and Allopathic Medicine was common to all.
1953 The College was renamed as the College of Integrated Medicine. The course was shortened to 4.5 years and one year of compulsory house- surgeoncy on par with MBBS course. Government ensured that the GCIM graduates could practice both the systems of Medicine. In 1959 the lst batch of GCIM students were admitted and in 1960 the College of Indigenous Medicine was closed.
1960 The Integrated Medicine Course (MBBS DEGREE) was started. The first and second year GCIM students were given the option of joining the MBBS course, while the senior students were offered the D.M&S on completion of the course and bringing them into the Allopathic fold.
1965 The College was recognised as Women Medical College and named as Government Kilpauk Medical College, admitting only women candidates for MBBS degree. Meanwhile, those who have completed GCIM, D.M&S were given the option to undertake condensed MBBS course at the Chengalpattu Medical College to obtain the MBBS degree and come into the fold of Modern Medicine.
1967 The women students agitated to have a co- educational institution and the erstwhile Government of Madras granted permission and both men and women were admitted to MBBS degree from 1967.
1972 Development of the Medical College is set into pace with the Surgical Block coming into being. Later all the different super-specialities came into being between 1972 and 2001 and stands in its glory to-day.
1981 Intensive Care Unit was sanctioned with 10 beds and was commissioned in June 1981 by Hon.Dr.H.V.Hande, the Minister for Health, Government of Tamilnadu. 50 beded comprehensive Burn unit was sanctioned on the I floor of the out-Patient Block and was commissioned in March 1985 by Hon.Dr.H.V.Hande, then Minister for Health under the Presidentship of Dr.Mrs.Lalitha Kameswaran, then Director of Medical Education.
1984 Department of Cardiology was sanctioned with Prof.S.Thanikachalam as its Chief.
1987 Department of Nephrology was sanctioned and commissioned in July 1987 with Prof.C.M.Thiagarajan as its Chief.
1988 Department of Surgical Gastroenterology was sanctioned with Prof.Srikumari Damaodharan as its Chief.
Infrastructure or Campus.
The government college of Kilpauk is situated in one of the famous and largest city of south India, Chennai. Capital of Tamil Nadu, Chennai has all sorts of facilities that are well visible in the college also. Located in the greenery of Chennai, the college is spread over a large area with full fledged facilities. The campus of the college is well equipped with features like modern day library with almost all volumes of popular and needful books, and various journals, computer lab equipped with all the modern day software and functions, workshops, and classrooms with all the advanced means to teach the students in a better way.
Courses Offered:
The college offers a number of bachelors and masters degree course like MBBS, MD in: Pathology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Physiology, Paediatrics, General Surgery etc. It also offers M.S and Diploma programs for the aspirants.
Admission Procedure:
The candidates appearing in MBBS course need to pass higher secondary exams from any of the recognized university of India. For getting admission in to this college, it is mandatory for one to be a citizen of India. For admission in the MBBS course and MD, MS type of post graduate courses, one will have to be outstanding in the entrance examination. Also there are quotas reserved for various state and national basis. One will have to be under that quota list which happens by the marks obtained in their higher secondary examinations.
Placement:
Being a government college, the college is capable of placing the students in various multi national and highly reputed industries. Students from every course are placed in the best possible companies in the country, and few meritorious are also sent abroad depending on their merit.
ADMISSIONS
Admissions to the Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) and the Post-graduate (MD, MS, other diplomas and other higher specialties) are through the Tamil Nadu state quota (for e.g.: 85% of seats in the MBBS program) and through the National/ Central quota (for e.g.: 15% of seats in the MBBS program). Reservations of seats and reduced tuition fees are available to the underserved communities in both the quotas. Admissions are open only to Indian citizens and are highly competitive.
MBBS Program
Approximately, the MBBS program has 100 seats of student intake per year.
It consists of 85% of total number of seats; filled by the Directorate of Medical Education under the state Government of Tamil Nadu.
It consists of 15% of total number of seats of student intake per year.
The National level entrance exam is the All India PreMedical PreDental Examination (AI PM/ PD test) which is conducted by CBSE. The seats under the Central quota are filled on the basis of the scores and ranking by the AI PM/ PD test alone and do not take into consideration the High school final exam scores.
Post Graduate Programs
The seats in the different Post-graduate programs (Diploma and Degree programs) are filled by:
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