King George's Medical University is a

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, and

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located in

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, India. The medical school was raised to a medical university by an act passed by the

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on 16 September 2002. The university has about 1250 undergraduate students (including 280 dental students) and 450 postgraduate students. About 250 students a year are admitted to the four-and-a-half-year course of study for the degree of M.B.B.S.

History

King George V George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936. Born during the reign of his grandmother Qu ...

, then the

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, laid the foundation stone of King George's Medical College in 1906. The college opened its gates in 1911, though the official opening ceremony was delayed to January 1912. The college was directly under the Government of the United Provinces, and degrees were awarded through

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. In 1921, the college was transferred to

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. In 2002 the

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, led by

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of the

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(BSP), granted university status the college and renamed it Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University (CSMMU), under the Uttar Pradesh Chhatrapati Shahuji Medical University Act, 2002. In August 2003

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of the

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(SP) replaced Mayawati and became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Two months later, in October 2003, the name of the university was changed to King George's Medical University (KGMU) by the Uttar Pradesh Chhartrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University (Second Amendment) Act, 2003. Name-changing continued. In 2007, after the BSP won the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election and Mayawati returned to office, the name of the institution reverted to CSMMU. When control returned to the SP in the

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's government returned the name of the university the current "King George Medical University". Similar changes occurred for the dental faculty. The faculty was established in 1949 as a section of the

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department; raised to a separate department in 1950, it moved to a new building in 1952. When the university was established in 2002, the dental department became the Dental College, a

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of the university. Two years later, under the Uttar Pradesh King George's University of Dental Science Act, 2004, the Dental College was raised to the status of a

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Mistakenly still listed as of 2017. named the "U.P. King George’s University of Dental Science". In 2007, the government reverted this decision and the U.P. King George's University of Dental Science again became simply a Faculty of Dental Sciences, as it was at the establishment of the university.

Faculties and institutes

* Faculty of Medical Sciences * Faculty of Dental Sciences * Institute of Paramedical Sciences * Institute of Nursing

Undergraduate courses

The college offers the four and a half year M.B.B.S. course with a one-year compulsory rotating

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. There are 250 seats for MBBS and 51 seats for BDS, which are filled through

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exam.

Postgraduate and doctoral courses

There are more than 28 PG courses and 13 Doctoral courses in KGMU. Thus almost all the branches of medicine and dental have a training program at KGMU. Diploma and PG diploma courses are also available in the institute.

Ranking

The

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(NIRF) has ranked the university 39 among universities in India in 2021, 9 among medical colleges and 60 overall. It was ranked sixth among medical colleges in India in 2019 by ''

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Notable people

Notable alumni

Belle Monappa Hegde Belle Monappa Hegde (born 18 August 1938) is a cardiologist, professor of medicine, and author. He was the Vice Chancellor of Manipal Academy of Higher Education from 1999 to 2003. He was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2010 and Padma Vibhushan in 20 ...

B. K. Anand Bal Krishan Anand (1917–2007) was an Indian physiologist and pharmacologist. He was credited for the discovery of the feeding center in the hypothalamus in 1951. He is considered the founder of modern Neurophysiology in India. He was born in ...

Sanduk Ruit Sanduk Ruit ( ne, सन्दुक रूइत, , born September 4, 1954) is an ophthalmologist (eye surgeon) from Nepal who has restored the sight of over 180,000 people across Africa and Asia using small-incision cataract surgery. Ruit is ...

Rajendra Prasad Rajendra Prasad (3 December 1884 – 28 February 1963) was an Indian politician, lawyer, Indian independence activist, journalist & scholar who served as the first president of Republic of India from 1950 to 1962. He joined the Indian Nationa ...

* Ravi Kant *

Anil Kohli Anil Kohli is an Indian dental surgeon, medical administrator and a former president of the Dental Council of India. He is an elected fellow of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and holds the honorary ran ...

* Nuzhat Husain * Mahesh Prasad Mehray * Ravindra Nanda *

Autar Singh Paintal Autar Singh Paintal (24 September 1925 – 21 December 2004) was a medical scientist who made pioneering discoveries in the area of neurosciences and respiratory sciences. He is the first Indian Physiologist to become the Fellow of the Royal ...

Sunil Pradhan Sunil Pradhan (born 25 June 1957) is an Indian neurologist, medical researcher and writer, known for the invention of two electrophysiological techniques. He has also described five medical signs, of which one related to Duchenne muscular dystrop ...

* Krishan Chandra Singhal * Badri Nath Tandon * Mahdi Hasan *

Naresh Trehan Naresh Trehan (born 12 August 1945) is an Indian cardiovascular and cardiothoracic surgeon. After graduating from King George Medical College, Lucknow, India, he went on to practice at New York University Medical Center Manhattan USA from 1971 ...

Prem Nath Wahi Prem Nath Wahi (1908–1991) was an Indian pathologist, writer, medical academic and the director general of the Indian Council of Medical Research. He was a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, a founder fellow of the National Aca ...

* Shyam Swarup Agarwal *

Balram Bhargava Balram Bhargava is an Indian physician scientist, cardiologist, medical educationist, and innovator. He is currently serving as the Chief of Cardiothoracic Centre, AIIMS. He is the former Director General at the Indian Council of Medical Researc ...

* Priyadarshi Ranjan * Soniya Nityanand

Notable faculty

* Shyam Swarup Agarwal *

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* U. C. Chaturvedi * Saroj Chooramani Gopal * Mansoor Hasan *

* Ravi Kant * Shiv Narain Kureel *

M. C. Pant Mohan Chandra Pant (1956–2015) was an Indian radiation oncologist, institution builder and the founder vice chancellor of the H. N. B. Uttarakhand Medical Education University, Dehradun. He served as the Director of Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Inst ...

* Jagdish Narain Sinha * Trilok Chandra Goel * Nuzhat Husain

References

External links

* {{Authority control Medical and health sciences universities in India Medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh Universities and colleges in Lucknow Universities in Uttar Pradesh 1905 establishments in India Educational institutions established in 1905