Medical Education

Dr Ida Scudder started the LMP programme in 1918 which was later upgraded to the MBBS course in 1942. CMC has been among the top- ranked medical colleges in the country. The emphasis has been on producing compassionate, professionally excellent and ethically sound healthcare professionals who will go out as servant-leaders, serving in the spirit of Christ.

The curriculum of CMC is a unique hybrid programme which is a combination of subject/ discipline based, community based, competency based and problem based curriculum. Emphasis is given to early clinical exposure during the first year and integrated learning throughout the course. Apart from the core academic subjects, students are introduced to important aspects of ethics, communication, leadership and management during the course with emphasis on skills and attitudes to practice medicine effectively.

Other Programmes and Activities

E-learning portal, libraries and the simulation lab provide essential assistance during the learning days of the students.

The Clerkship Programme. A programme during which students, work as sub-interns in the wards where they learn to do procedures and follow-up from admission to discharge.

Community Health and Secondary Hospital Programmes. These sensitise the students to healthcare needs in rural India acquiring the knowledge and skills to practice medicine in a secondary-care setting.

Research. Mentored by faculty, the students organise an annual, national level undergraduate research symposium that provides a platform for students to present their research.

Exchange Programmes to medical universities in other countries

Spiritual growth and guidance, in keeping with the ethos of the institution

Student body allows the students to showcase their talents in drama, dance, cultural activities, sports and games and various events which occur through the year.

Fully residential, both faculty and students live on the same campus. This facilitates better allround faculty-student interaction. The families of faculty become students’ foster families during their stay here.

Under the Post-graduate medical training CMC has been a pioneer in India, starting with General Medicine and General Surgery in the early 1950s. CMC was also the first in India to offer postgraduate training in super-specialities such as Neurosurgery and Clinical Haematology. More recently, CMC was the first to start specialty training courses in Paediatric Orthopaedics, and surgery and virology.

In a large teaching hospital like CMC, students get rich clinical exposure and ample opportunities for hands-on surgical, clinical or other technical experience in various specialisations, the surgical skills laboratory and the animal facilities. They gain special training in research methodologies, ALS/BLS and medical education technology and receive research grants from the CMC Research Committee for dissertations. The students can also access NABL-accredited Biochemistry, Virology, Microbiology and Clinical Pathology labs for clinical diagnostics and research support. The Christian Medical College, through its education process for nearly a hundred years, continues to pass on the motto of the institution ‘not to be served unto but to serve’, to every student who goes through the portals of this institution.