Assam Medical College
The 450-acre (180 ha) college offers numerous facilities including indoor and outdoor sports facilities, canteens, ATMs, etc. The academic facilities include laboratories, libraries, wifi across the campus providing access to the internet facilities through PCs and laptops.
The college offers admission to 200 students each year from 2019. Before 2019 it offered admission to 170 students each year.
History
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The college was founded as Berry White Medical School in 1900 using a large donation from Sir John Berry White. It was renamed as Assam Medical College and Hospital on 3 November 1947. 3 November is celebrated as foundation day every year by students of the college. The Assam government has preserved the original Berry White Medical School building in Grahambazar, Dibrugarh. In 1910 the college imported two X-ray machines from England, which were the first in India, and opened the country's first radiology department.
On 12 February 2016, Union minister of health and family welfare laid the foundation of 192 bed super-special hospital with a 60-bed intensive care unit, a catheterization lab, and specialties in neurology, neurosurgery, cardiothoracic vascular surgery, nephrology and paediatrics.
Courses
The college provides undergraduate and post-graduate education in:
- Community Medicine
- Medicine
- Nursing
- Midwifery
- Pharmacy
- Orthopaedics
- Cardiology
- Otorhinolaryngology
- General surgery
- Anatomy
- Pathology
- Biochemistry
- Ophthalmology
- Pediatrics
- Microbiology
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Psychiatry
- Dentistry
- Neurology
- Pharmacology
- Forensics
- Anesthesiology
- Dermatology
- Plastic Surgery
- Radiology
- Physiotherapy
Patient care
It runs outpatient departments in general medicine, general surgery, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, ENT, head & neck surgery, dermatology, pulmonary medicine, geriatric medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, dentistry, paediatrics, physiotherapy and psychiatry. Special outpatient departments for rheumatology, diabetes, neurology, nephrology, cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, plastic surgery, paediatric surgery, urology, cardiology, neurosurgery runs on specified days of week. Emergency services runs in casualty, paediatric medicine, obstetrics and psychiatry.