# Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata

Medical College, Kolkata, also known as Calcutta Medical College, is a Government medical college and hospital located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is one of the oldest existing hospitals in Asia. The institute was established on 28 January 1835 by Lord William Bentinck during British Raj 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 MBBS degree after five and a half years of medical training.

## 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 partition of India. 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 Bidhan Chandra Roy who became the second Chief Minister of West Bengal, 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.

## Rankings

Medical College, Kolkata was ranked 44th among Medical Institutions by National Institutional Ranking Framework (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

* Bidhan Chandra Roy, noted physician and the 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal
* Lamu Amatya, First Nepalese nurse
* Pasupati Bose, Indian physician and professor of anatomy
* Upendranath Brahmachari, discoverer of the treatment of Kala-azar
* Aroup Chatterjee, British Indian atheist physician, author of Mother Teresa: The Untold Story
* Nirmal Kumar Dutta, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize winner (1965) and the Director of Haffkine Institute
* Lionel Emmett, member of the Indian field hockey team in the 1936 Summer Olympics
* Subhendu Chatterjee, film actor and physician
* Muhammad Ibrahim, former Principal of Sir Salimullah Medical College
* Sri Yukteshwar Giri, Indian Yogi
* Dipyaman Ganguly, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize winner (2022)
* Kadambini Ganguly, the first certified South Asian 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 Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
* Vikram Marwah, Padma Shri awardee, conferred Dr. B. C. Roy Award by the President of India
* Nurul Islam, National Professor of Bangladesh
* Kamaleshwar Mukherjee, 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 Subhas Chandra Bose and son of Sarat Chandra Bose
* Ram Baran Yadav, first president of Nepal