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Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata
Medical College, Bengal Logo.svg
Motto Latin: Cum Humanitate Scientia
Motto in English
Humanity and Science
Type Public
Established 28 January 1835
(189 years ago)
 (28 January 1835)
Founder Lord William Bentinck
Academic affiliations
  • WBUHS
  • NMC
Principal Prof. Dr. Raghunath Mishra, M.D. (Community Medicine)
Academic staff
258
Students 2,370
Undergraduates 1,245
Postgraduates 600
525
Location
88 College Street, Kolkata 700001

22°34′25″N 88°21′43″E / 22.5736°N 88.3619°E / 22.5736; 88.3619
Campus Urban
26 acres (0.11 km2)

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. 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.

CMC administrative
Frontal facade of the administrative block

Ranking

University and college rankings
Medical – India
NIRF (2021) 32
Outlook India (2019) 19

The college was ranked 19th among medical colleges in India in 2019 by Outlook India.

For the first time Medical College, Kolkata ranked 32nd among Medical Institution by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2021.

Politics

Martyr of Vietnam Day Police Firing-Sree Dhiraranjan Sen
Plaque in memory of Sree Dhiraranjan Sen

Student politics is rooted in tradition, with many students participating in the Indian freedom struggle. Anti-British movements were implemented with the programmes of Bengal Provincial Students' Federation (BPSF), the Bengal branch of All India Students' Federation. Student politics was initially focused on the independence of India. In 1947, Sree Dhiraranjan Sen, a student of the college, died during a Vietnam Day police firing. The Vietnam Students’ Association passed a resolution in its Hanoi session in memory of Sen in March 1947.

Student politics were highly influenced by the partition of Bengal and communal riots during and after the partition of India. 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.

From the 1950s to the 1970s, the college became a centre of leftist and far-left politics. Student politics was highly influenced by the Naxalbari uprising in the early 1970s.

Main building of Calcutta Medical College and Hospital 03
Main building of Calcutta Medical College and Hospital

Notable alumni

  • 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
  • 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
  • Ram Baran Yadav, first president of Nepal
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