Silchar Medical College and Hospital

About College

Silchar Medical College & Hospital is a government run medical college established in 1968. As the name says it has hospital attached to it which is the only referral hospital in the southern part of Assam, also known as Barak Valley. It is affiliated to Assam University & has got recognition from Medical Council of India in 1976.

• Being sited in a strategic geographic location, the college & hospital offers its services to the people of the neighboring states like, North Tripura, Mizoram West Manipur & South Meghalaya.
• The college along with the hospital is sprawled out over an area of 620 bighas.
• The campus is fully air conditioned having wi-fi facility along with all latest technologies & well equipped laboratories.
• It is offering courses for the five & half years MBBS & three years Post graduation.
• It imparts 100 seats annually for the MBBS course & 45 for the Post graduation course.
• The college has outstanding & highly qualified professional 172 faculty members.
• The students & the faculty of the college have been awarded for various researches & publications. Few of them are

               Dr. P.C Sharma (got fellowship of Cardio logical Society of India – 2005)

               Mr. Abhijit Saikia (awarded with ICMR studentship)

• The medical college offers best placements.

Silchar Medical College is a most premier medical institution in the India for providing best academic performances and patients care. The faculty of college always endeavors to instill in students the importance of medical science & researches & to make them fully professional to serve. It is the “Centre of excellence” for Medical Science & Research. It offers undergraduate, Post graduate & various pharmacy & nursing programmes.

Few Undergraduate (MBBS) courses are available for departments of

• Anatomy
• Biochemistry
• Pharmacology
• Pathology
• Microbiology

Post Graduate departments are

• Ophthalmology
• Psychiatrist
• Surgery
• Radio-diagnosis
• Anesthesiology

Additional to the academics, the college organizes various events & fests throughout the year. Few of the events are

• CME on Haematology - Dr. Debashish Banerjee, Kolkata - 29th & 30th July 2012
• CME on CNS Tumors - Dr. S. K. Verma, HOD, Pathology, JIPMER, Pondicherry - 6th October 2012
• Workshop on Research Methodology by ICMR on 14th & 15Th September 2012 and by Srimanta Snkardeva University of Health Sciences on 3rd to 6th October 2012
• CME on Haematology - Dr. Debashish Banerjee, Kolkata - 29th & 30th July 2012
• CME on CNS Tumors - Dr. S. K. Verma, HOD, Pathology, JIPMER, Pondicherry - 6th October 2012
• Workshop on Research Methodology by ICMR on 14th & 15Th September 2012 and by Srimanta Snkardeva University of Health Sciences on 3rd to 6th October 2012

Hostels (103)

Separate accommodation facility is available for outstation students (boys & girls) along with all modern services.

Boy’s hostel

It has the capacity to admit 450 students having 225 rooms. Additionally, 24hours fast internet service, sports facility & hygienic food is available for the students.

Girl’s hostel

It can accommodate 274 girls having the capacity of 137 rooms (2 setaers & three seaters). The girl’s hostel is little far from boy’s hostel built considering the security of girls. The accommodation for faculty is available. Post graduate hostel has 40 rooms having capacity of accommodating 80 students.

There is separate hostel for international students.

Library (76)

The Central Library in the college is housed at the Administrative Block. The library is well-equipped having easy access to the internet facility is provided to the students and the faculty members. It has various computers with multimedia facility. The Library comprises of

• 26,092Books
• 3,150Book Bank for SC/ST Students           

(156 for Non-Medical Books  , 145 for Pre- Medical Section)

• 20 Journals
• 170 Foreign
• Current Journals (Medline with full text - 2,110)
• Hard Copy – 28

• Dr. P. C. Sharma receives Fellowships of Cardiological Society of India - 2005 & Indian Society of   Cardiology - 2006
• ICMR Studentship awarded to Mr. Abhijit Saikia 6th Semester Student

Researches

• The title named “an experience of Mid-Trimester – MTP with EOC & D & E”was published by J. Obst. & Gynec in 1993
• The title named “Placental Morphology in Hypertensive disorder of Pregnancy & its co-relation fetal outcome. Was published by J. Obset & Gynec in 1996
• The title named “Wandering Ovarian Tumor? A rare complication a Gynae case report was published By J. Obst. & Gynae. India 50 : 99, 2, 2000 (April)
• “Vaginal hysterectomy” was published in the Conference update -2002, Bhubaneswar