Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College

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Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College

Govt Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College
Type	Government Medical College and Hospital
Established	1986
Dean	Dr.Balaji Nathan
Undergraduates	100 places (year 2020)
Postgraduates	102 places (year 2020)
Location	Salem , Tamil Nadu , India 11.671576°N 78.067494°E / 11.671576; 78.067494
Campus	College:Semi-urban, Hospital : urban
Nickname	GMKMC
Affiliations	The Tamilnadu Dr M. G. R University, Chennai
Website	www.gmkmc.ac.in/gmkmc Glanzendo

Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College is a Tamilnadu government medical college. It was established in 1986. The college is in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India, and is named after Former Iron and Steel Minister of India Mohan Kumaramangalam. It is recognized by the Medical Council of India. The school enrolls 100 MBBS and 102 postgraduate medical students. Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Nursing College is situated on the campus in a separate building.

History

The Salem government district hospital was built in 1913 by the British government. The campus spanned 13 acres. The hospital was to serve residents as well as British officers in the unified Salem district.

In October 1988, the groundbreaking for the Government Mohan Kumaramanagalam Medical College (GMKMC) was conducted by then-Indian Prime Minister Shri. Rajiv Gandhi. The college opened in 1990 and its first graduating class had only 65 MBBS students.

The Salem Medical College was named in honour of then steel minister Mohan Kumaramangalam, who was born in Kumaramangalam, an area near Thiruchengode (the then-unified Salem district, now part of the Namakkal district). In 2013, the number of undergraduate MBBS seats increased to 100. The college celebrated its silver jubilee in 2015.

Facilities

Aerial view of GMKMC with surrounding Mountains and greenery

The college campus has fully capable (100 students) classrooms in all the preclinical departments.

Pre-Clinical Departments

• Anatomy
• Physiology
• Biochemistry
• Pathology
• Pharmacology
• Microbiology
• Forensic medicine
• Preventive and social medicine.

Each department has good infrastructure and all the learning essentials.

Library

A well furnished, air-conditioned library facility, accommodating almost 200 students at a single time is available. Own books reading hall is available separately, which accommodates 70 students at a time. A computer based e-Library is available with 40 computers. There is also separate air-conditioned study hall for professors and other teaching staff, which accommodates almost 20 people at a time. Ample parking facilities for doctors and students are available outside the premises.

Lecture hall

There are two lecture buildings: Old lecture building - four halls New lecture building - one hall

Almost 250 students can be seated in a single lecture hall (out of 4 old ones) and almost 350 students can be seated in the new lecture building. All lecture halls are well equipped with projector facilities along with a computer for digital learning. Both the lecture halls buildings are fully air conditioned. Each lecture hall is provided with toilet facilities for both gents and ladies separately. There is ample parking facilities outside the lecture hall.

Hostel

Both Gents and Ladies hostel are available with 24×7 water and electricity facility. Accommodation is free of cost. Food charges are born by students. Gents hostel holds 120 rooms. Ladies hostel holds 140 rooms. Toilet and bathing facilities are available. RO purified drinking water facility is available. Security personnel are posted round the clock for the safety of students. Hostel is surrounded by twelve-foot compound wall with fences. Ample parking facilities available. Hostel is absolutely safe for students with no black marks in history so far. A large cricket cum football ground is available common for gents and ladies, with separate volleyball and basketball play area.

Bus facility

The college has buses, which takes clinical posting students daily to Govt. hospital (GMKMCH) in Salem town, for their clinical postings. Both up and down trips are provided. Bus facilities are free of cost. All students can utilize bus facility. Apart from college provided bus facility, there is a bus stop right out of the college campus where all local (government and private) as well as moffussil buses are available for travel from 4am in the morning to late night. College premises are interconnected with good quality road facility.

Auditorium

An auditorium (apart from two lecture halls) is available, where 350 students can be seated at a time, with well equipped sound systems and screening facilities. There is a garden around the auditorium. There are parking facilities. An auditorium is provided.

Canteen

There is a canteen with a capacity of fifty. There is separate eating hall for Dayscholar students where they can use it for lunch session. Adequate water facilities are provided with proper sanitary facilities, waste disposal facilities.

Exam hall

The exam hall has capacity for approximately 500 students, with fully air-conditioned and CCTV surveillance and celljammer facility. There is a room for keeping utensils and bags in front of the exam hall. A nodal centre for connecting with the TNMGRMU is there to relay the live feed Parking is available.

Animal house

A separate animal house building which works under the direct supervision of pharmacology department is available.

Nursing college

The campus also holds a nursing college where in almost 150 students are educated for every batch. Infrastructure is well equipped with all the necessary needs. With hostel facilities for ladies only, along with food, water and sanitation.

Administrative block

The campus holds a separate Admin block wherein all the official work, Dean, Principal and other officials are present. Opened at 9am, during week days, works until 6pm.

Transport

Two college buses transport medical students and carries nursing students from the college to the hospital. The college campus is situated along the Salem Steel Plant (Tharamangalam) four-lane road. Buses connect the college to Salem Junction (within 5 km), the new Salem Central bus stand (within 7 km), and the old Salem Town bus stand (within 10 km).

Salem Junction is the divisional headquarters of Salem on the Southern railway and a junction of five railway lines. It has many trains to Chennai, Erode, Coimbatore, Trichy, Virudachalam, Madurai, etc.

Salem Airport provides air connectivity to Chennai. Salem is the intersection of highway roads from Coimbatore, Bangalore, Karur, and Chennai.

Glanzendo-National level Medical Quiz

GLANZENDO is a National level Grand Intercollegiate Quiz contest conducted by Govt. Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College, Salem every year.It is being conducted successfully for more than 6 successive years. Glanzendo 6.0 - Pulmonoquest was the first National level quiz conducted by Xorvianzz'17 with participation from more than 23 states and union territories.With 1100 teams and 3300 participants, It was a grand success.

Counselling status

Seats are filled in pair with Kilpauk and Coimbatore medical college.

COURSES :

MBBS-100 seats

MD courses

• General medicine-16
• Paediatrics-8
• Anesthesia-7
• Psychiatry-5
• Forensic medicine and toxicology-3
• Pathology-6
• Microbiology-3
• Biochemistry-3

MS courses

• General surgery - 12
• Obstetrics and Gynecology-10
• Orthopaedics-10
• Ophthalmology-2
• ENT-2

DM courses

• Neurology-2
• Cardiology-2
• Nephrology-2

Mch courses

• Neurosurgery-2
• Paediatric surgery-2
• GI surgery-2
• Plastic and reconstructive surgery-2
• Urology-4

Fellowship

Fellowship in Diabetology-4

Hospital

GMC is affiliated to GMKMCH, a tertiary care super-specialty hospital with around 2000 beds, 9 km from the college campus. The hospital spans over 13 acres opposite the Salem District Collector Office.

The super-specialty block in the hospital campus adopted a green building model, similar to Delhi AIIMS. It houses all super specialty departments and an apex trauma center. The inpatient biochemistry, pathology and microbiology laboratories are in the same building. The super specialty block contains a centralized air-conditioning system and a conference hall. It houses departments of neurology, neurosurgery, cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, nephrology, urology, plastic surgery, endocrine surgery, and pediatric surgery. An OPD block with consulting rooms, demonstration halls, x-ray units, minor OT and an outpatient laboratory are present. Separate buildings are present for departments of internal medicine, general surgery, ophthalmology, radiotherapy, ENT Surgery, ICTC and ART, RNTCP, TB ward and psychiatry.

A Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) center housing the departments of pediatrics, obstetrics, and gynecology is considered a 'center of excellence'. More than 1000 babies are born every month in the RCH center, making it one of the biggest mother and child hospitals in Tamil Nadu. CEmONC, O&G casualty and OBG ICU adds more glory to the RCH institute.

GMKMCH has an institute of Diabetology and an Institute of Burns. The Central Government-sponsored VDRL Laboratory is there.

The hospital has around 20 operating rooms and separate Intensive Care Units for various departments: MICU (Medical ICU), PACU (Post anesthetic ICU), SICU (Surgical ICU), PICU (Paediatric ICU), NICU (Neonatal ICU), Superspeciality ICU, and ICCU.

A DEIC (District Early Intervention and Counselling) OP under the RBSK Scheme is present on the campus. A separate block for forensic science and toxicology with lecture halls, mortuary and autopsy rooms are available. Hostels for resident doctors, postgraduate students are on the Hospital campus.

Two RT-PCR testing centre for testing Covid-19 has been established with a testing capacity of 4500 samples per day under the supervision of Department of Microbiology.

References

• "Name of College : Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College, Salem". Medical Council of India. Retrieved 15 February 2016.

Official links

• Official website
• Glanzendo-A National Level Quiz by GMKMC