The Government Villupuram Medical College is an educational institution established in 2010 in

Mundiyampakkam Mundiyampakkam is a village in the Viluppuram district of the State of Tamil Nadu in India. The Government Villupuram Medical College is located here. Mundiyampakkam is located 7 km from Villupuram and 5 km from Vikravandi. NH45 ...

village in the Indian state of

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. It's one of the best medical institution in India. The college accepts 100 MBBS students per year, of which 85 are state quota seats and 15 are from the ''All India'' quota. It is a

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(MCI) recognized medical college. This medical college is given permission to start Post Graduate Medical Degree Courses under 5 specialities totalling an annual intake of 40 students per year from the academic year 2019-2020. Apart from the Medical Courses, this college offers various Para-Medical Degree, Diploma and Certificate Courses. This college also is an approved training institute for nursing colleges. The college has a capacity of 650 teaching beds and 500 non teaching beds for patient care. It includes an emergency ward under the Tamil Nadu Accident and Emergency Care Initiative(TAEI) as well as specialty departments including oncology, Surgical Gastroenterology, Nephrology, urology and pediatric surgery. This hospital has Central Laboratory, CT/MRI scan centre, Mammography unit apart from the routine X-Ray and Ultrasonogram Services. This college is affiliated to The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Guindy, Chennai and the administration is governed by the Directorate of Medical Education, Department of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Tamil Nadu.

Hostel facilities

The college has separate male and female on-campus hostel facilities for 500 MBBS students, interns and Post graduates. It also has family quarters for doctors and nurses.

Central library

The 1600 square meter central library was built with seating for 100 students. It held 7000 textbooks and reference books as of 2015 along with 100

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. This Library also has an online e-Library facility with the access to national and international online journals.

Medical education unit

The Medical Education Unit (MEU) is located on the third floor of the college building. It can accommodate 250 seats. The MEU contains

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aids, computers with

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facilities and CD-Books.

Regulation on graduate Medical Education 1997 emphasized that faculty members should employ modern education technology. To attain this objective, medical education units/departments should be established for faculty development and provide learning resource material for teachers. Due to this directive from MCI, the MEU has been created at Government Villupuram Medical college.

Health insurance scheme

As part of the initiative of Government of Tamil Nadu, the Chief Ministers Comprehensive Health Insurance scheme (CMCHIS) is being run in this hospital.

References

{{Authority control Medical colleges in Tamil Nadu Education in Viluppuram district