Government Villupuram Medical College


The Government Villupuram Medical College is an educational institution established in 2010 in Mundiyampakkam village in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. 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 Medical Council of India 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 as well as specialty departments including oncology, Surgical Gastroenterology, Nephrology, urology and pediatric surgery. This hospital has well equipped diagnostic infrastructure with state of the art 24 hrs 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.

Motto and Emblem

The Motto of the College is "Rural Health, Nation's Wealth". This stresses the importance of Healthcare of Rural Population of the Nation, which contributes to active working people who in turn work more and increase the production thereby making the nation wealthier.

Hostel facilities

The college has separate male and female on-campus hostel facilities for 500 MBBS students, Para Medical 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 medical journals.
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 is located on the third floor of the college building. It can accommodate 250 seats. The MEU contains audio-visual aids, computers with internet facilities and CD-Books. Medical Council of India 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.

Classes

Every class of MBBS students assigns itself a name denoting the year of their entry into the medical school.
As part of the initiative of Government of Tamil Nadu, the Chief Ministers Comprehensive Health Insurance scheme is being run in this hospital.