The Stanley Medical College was formed in 1938 in Chennai. In the year 2007, the college was declared 11th out of the 25 medical colleges of India. Run by the Government of Tamil Nadu, the college has both undergraduate and postgraduate medical courses.
The history of Stanley Medical College, Chennai dates back to 1740. The East India Compnay first established a medical department. Later in 1782 Monegar Choultry was built in the present day location of the college. Again the Assistant John Native Infirmary was formed along with the Leper Asylum and Monegar Choultry in 1809. The Native Infirmary started housing a hospital and dispensary from 1830 which was offered by Raja Sir Ramasamy Mudaliar.
The M.B. & G.M. and L.M & S Medical courses were introduced in the Native Infirmary in the year 1836 by the Madras University. East India Company further incorporated a hospital assistant course in the year 1903. Licence for medical practitioners was offered to the college in 1911. In the following years, the Stanley Medical College emphasized on the core development of the infrastructure and courses. Today, the college is one of the prestigious educational institutions of Chenna has introduced modern live surgical transmission from operation theatre to lecture halls using audiovisual gadgets here on Saturday.
The degree and post-graduate students watched live on a screen from the lecture hall, the dissection of a small portion of a body and brain by T.Sivakami, Professor of Anatomy in the laboratory. audio visual facility was provided by the Association of Octolaryngologists of India (AOI), Thanjavur branch. Mohan Kameswaran, noted ENT surgeon handed over the audio visual arrangement on behalf of AOI to Dr.Sivakami.
Dr Mohan Kameswaran said that the alliance between Ear Nose Throat (ENT) and Anatomy is natural. Great ENT specialists remained Anatomy experts.
Stating that those who do well in Anatomy will evolve as a good doctor irrespective of the area the doctors specialised, Kameswaran hoped that the audio visual facility will help students study Anatomy well.
A.Jesudoss, Professor of ENT and Dean (in-charge) of Rajah Mirasudhar Government Hospital said that education with the help of modern audio visual gadgets is the trend.
It is essential to incorporate the modern techniques in the field of education. With that idea, the ENT Department has already got modern live surgical transmission from operation theatre to lecture halls, which is much useful to the students.
The same arrangement is extended to the department of Anatomy today to bring out the virtual reality training to be effective.
This kind of arrangement is not available in any college in South India.
K.Kalaiselvi, Additional Director of Medical edcuation, A.Navaneethan, Dean (in-charge), Thanjavur Medical College, M.K.Balasubramanian, Professor of ENT participated in the programme.
Admission Criteria
Entrance examinations are conducted on a state and national level for admission to MBBS and postgraduate courses of stanley Medical College. A certain percentage of seats are reserved for the underprivileged candidates. Those practitioners who are employed with the government sectors are also allowed to get admission to the college.
The Stanley Medical College is associated with a number of well known hospitals of the city. some of these hospitals are:
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