Calcutta Medical College, officially Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, is a

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medical school and hospital in

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

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. It is the oldest existing hospital in Asia. The institute was established on 28 January 1835 by

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during

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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

. The college offers MBBS degree after five and a half years of medical training. CMC administrative

Ranking

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

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''. For the first time Medical College, Kolkata ranked 32nd among Medical Institution by ''

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'' (NIRF) in 2021. Medical College, Kolkata ranked 43rd among Medical Institution by ''

'' (NIRF) in 2022.

Politics

Martyr of Vietnam Day Police Firing-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

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who became the second

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, 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

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in the early 1970s. Main building of Calcutta Medical College and Hospital 03

Development

Stamp of India - 1985 - Colnect 167185 - Medical College Calcutta

In August 2003, the then union health minister

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had given the in-principle assented nod to the upgrade of MCH, Kolkata on the lines of AIIMS.

Notable alumni

Lamu Amatya Lamu Amatya (; 27 January 1932 – 1 June 2012) was the first Nepalese trained–nurse. She received her nursing degree in 1954 and started working in 1956. In 2017, the Ministry of Health and Population of Nepal certified and declared her as th ...

, First Nepalese nurse * Pasupati Bose, Indian physician and professor of anatomy *

Upendranath Brahmachari Rai Bahadur Sir Upendranath Brahmachari ( bn, উপেন্দ্রনাথ ব্রহ্মচারী) (19 December 1873 – 6 February 1946) was a leading Indian physician and scientist of his time. He synthesised Urea-Stibamine (car ...

, discoverer of the treatment of Kala-azar *

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, British Indian atheist physician, author of ''Mother Teresa: The Untold Story'' * Nirmal Kumar Dutta, Indian pharmacologist, medical academic and the director of

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* Lionel Emmett, member of the Indian

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team in the 1936 Summer Olympics * Dipyaman Ganguly, N-Bios laureate *

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, the first certified

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n female physician qualified for Western medical practice *

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, 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

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. *

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–

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awardee, conferred Dr. B. C. Roy Award by the

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. * Kamaleshwar Mukherjee, filmmaker * M. D. Ray, surgical oncologist and author * Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay * N. C. Paul, first physician to examine yoga *

, noted physician and the 2nd Chief Minister of

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, noted paediatrician,nephew of Subhas Chandra Bose and son of

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, first

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References

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 * * 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

* {{authority control 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