Medical College, Kolkata, also known as Calcutta Medical College, is a

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and

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located in

Kolkata Kolkata, also known as Calcutta ( its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary ...

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. It is one of the oldest existing hospitals 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 one of the oldest medical college to teach Western medicine in Asia and the first institute to teach in English language. The college offers

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degree after five and a half years of medical training. CMC administrative

Politics

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

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

Main building of Calcutta Medical College and Hospital 03

Rankings

Medical College, Kolkata was ranked 44th among Medical Institutions by ''

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'' (NIRF) in 2024.

Achievements

In February 2023, Dr. Sudip Das, a professor of ENT Department from the institution, gets a patent for developing a simple and innovative device.

Notable alumni

, noted physician and the 2nd Chief Minister of

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

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, discoverer of the treatment of Kala-azar * Aroup Chatterjee, British Indian atheist physician, author of ''Mother Teresa: The Untold Story'' * Nirmal Kumar Dutta,

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winner (1965) and the Director of Haffkine Institute * Lionel Emmett, member of the Indian

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team in the

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* Subhendu Chatterjee, film actor and physician * Muhammad Ibrahim, former Principal of Sir Salimullah Medical College * Sri Yukteshwar Giri, Indian Yogi * Dipyaman Ganguly,

winner (2022) * Kadambini Ganguly, the first certified

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n female physician qualified for Western medical practice * Madhusudan Gupta, 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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. * Vikram Marwah,

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

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* Nurul Islam, National Professor of Bangladesh *

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, filmmaker * M. D. Ray, surgical oncologist and author * Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay * N. C. Paul, first physician to examine yoga * Sisir Kumar Bose, noted paediatrician,nephew of

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and son of Sarat Chandra Bose * Ram Baran Yadav, first President of Nepal * Fazle Haque, West Bengal state minister * Narendra Nath Dutta, physician and industrialist

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 Healthcare in Kolkata