# Andhra Medical College

Andhra Medical College is a public medical college in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, and affiliated to Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences. It is the oldest medical college in Andhra Pradesh, the sixth oldest & one of the top medical colleges in India. It is recognized by the Medical Council of India.

## Emblem

Andhra Medical College emblem was designed by Dr. F. J. Anderson, the first principal.

## Renovation

In the year 2020, Dr Sudhakar, principal, Andhra Medical College (AMC), had disclosed the modernisation plan for the hospital. A plan is being designed to have vertical buildings which will accommodate all the departments of the college. A sum of ₹120 crores had been earmarked for this purpose. It is proposed to demolish the Panagal building in the campus and a seven-storey building is planned to be constructed in its place. The building is proposed to accommodate all departments from anatomy to community medicine and even pre-clinical and para-clinical departments.

## Principals

| Name | Specialization | From | To |
| Lt. Col. F.J. Anderson | Professor of Surgery | 1923 | |
| Lt. Col. F.C. Frazer | Professor of Surgery | 1927 | 1928 |
| Dr. T. S. Tirumurti | Professor of Pathology | 1930 | 1930 |
| Major J. W. Ebden | Professor of Surgery | 1933 | 1933 |
| Major F.M. Collins | Professor of Surgery | 1937 | 1938 |
| Major J.F. Shepherd | Professor of Surgery | 1939 | 1941 |
| Major F.A.B. Shepherd | Professor of Surgery | 1941 | 1945 |
| Dr. T. Bhaskara Menon | Professor of Pathology | 1945 | 1948 |
| Dr. N. G. Pandalai | Professor of Bacteriology | 1948 | 1951 |
| Dr. M. V. Ramana Murthy | Professor of Surgery | 1951 | 1951 |
| Dr. T. K. Raman | Professor of Medicine | 1951 | 1953 |
| Dr. M. D. Anantachari | Professor of Medicine | 1953 | 1954 |
| Dr. D. Govinda Reddy | Professor of Pathology | 1954 | 1956 |
| Dr. S. Venkateswarlu | Professor of Radiology | 1956 | 1956 |
| Dr. G. V. Satyanarayana Murty | Professor of Medicine | 1956 | 1959 |
| Dr. K. Ramesh Pai | Professor of Surgery | 1960 | 1960 |
| Dr. P. Narasimha Rao | Professor of ENT | 1960 | 1964 |
| Dr. V. S. Raghunathan | Professor of Medicine | 1964 | 1968 |
| Dr. P. Brahmayya Sastry | Professor of Physiology | 1968 | 1969 |
| Dr. R. Satyabhama Reddy | Professor of Gynecology | 1969 | 1974 |
| Dr. L. Suryanarayana | Professor of Surgery | 1974 | 1975 |
| Dr. K. Kameswari Devi | Professor of Gynecology | 1975 | 1976 |
| Dr. K. Sanjeeva Rao | Professor of Anatomy | 1976 | 1981 |
| Dr. C. Sita Devi | Professor of Biochemistry | 1981 | 1984 |
| Dr. E. N. B. Sharma | Professor of Surgery | 1985 | 1986 |
| Dr. V. S. Dhanraj | Professor of Anesthesia | 1986 | 1987 |
| Dr. K. Veerebadhiah | Professor of Surgery | 1986 | 1987 |
| Dr. G. Nirmala | Professor of Pharmacology | 1986 | 1998 |
| Dr. C. Syamala | Professor of Paediatrics | 1992 | 1995 |
| Dr. V. Pranava Murty | Professor of Medicine | 1994 | 2001 |
| Dr. P. A. Jayakar | Professor of Bacteriology | 1995 | 1996 |
| Dr. R. Venkata Ramana | Professor of Surgery | 1996 | 1997 |
| Dr. K. Surya Rao | Professor of Medicine | 1997 | 1997 |
| Dr. R. Ahikrishna | Professor of Ophthalmology | 1998 | 1999 |
| Dr. K. Akkalanaidu | Professor of ENT | 1999 | 1999 |
| Dr. A. Prakasa Rao | Professor of ENT | 1999 | 2000 |
| Dr. K. Venugopala Rao | Professor of Pediatric Surgery | 2000 | 2001 |
| Dr. Sasiprabha | Professor of Gynecology | 2001 | 2002 |
| Dr. K. Raghavaprasad | Professor of SPM | 2002 | 2003 |
| Dr. Ch. Gnaneswar | Professor of Medicine | 2002 | 2003 |
| Dr. Ronanki Narayana Rao | Professor of Medicine | 2003 | 2006 |
| Dr. C. V. Rao | Professor of Plastic Surgery | 2006 | 2008 |
| Dr. G. Bhagya Rao | Professor of Psychiatry | 2008 | 2011 |
| Dr. Vishnu Prasad | Professor of Neurosurgery | 2011 | 2011 |
| Dr. Santha Rao | Professor of Surgery | 2012 | 2012 |
| Dr. Kalpana Subrahmanyam (MD) | Professor of Biochemistry | 2012 | 2013 |
| Dr. S. V. Kumar | Professor of Surgery | 2013 | 2016 |
| Dr T. Radha | Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology | 2016 | 2017 |
| Dr. P. V. Sudhakar | Professor of Plastic Surgery | 2017 | 2022 |
| Dr. G. Sambasiva Rao | Professor of Chest Diseases | 2022 | 2022 |
| Dr. G. Butchi Raju | Professor of Neurology | 2022 | 2025 |
| Dr. K. V. S. M. Sandhya Devi | Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology | Since March 1st 2025 | Till date |

## Departments

* Department of Anaesthesiology
* Department of Anatomy: established in 1923. The first Professor was Capt. F. J. Anderson. It has a Museum. There are two artificial human skeletons donated by Dr. R. Krishna Rao. Dr. S. Swaminathan Prize and Dr. Anderson Medal are awarded to meritorious students annually.
* Department of Biochemistry: started in 1925 as part of the Physiology department. Dr. V. K. Narayana Menon was the first professor. Rao Bahadur Dr. V. K. Narayana Menon Medal, Dr. Venkateswarulu Prize, Dr. M. V. V. Krishna Mohan Memorial Prize and Dr C. Sita Devi University Medal awarded annually to meritorious students.
* Department of Cardiology: started in 1971 as a 25-bedded ward with Intensive Care Unit. As a result of public contributions and Costal Andhra Heart Foundation, a separate building was constructed exclusively for the Department of Cardiology in 1981. The department was upgraded to 36-beds and 18-bedded Intensive Cardiac Care Unit. An Intermediate Coronary Care Unit was opened in the year 2001.
* Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery: started in 1956 with Dr. B. Sundara Rama Murthy as the first professor. An open heart surgery Unit was recently inaugurated on the second floor of the Cardiology Block with financial assistance from the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant and the Coastal Heart Foundation.
* Department of Dental Surgery
* Department of Dermatology
* Department of Endocrinology
* Department of Forensic Medicine
* Department of Gastroenterology
* Department of General Surgery
* Department of Medicine: set up at the King George Hospital and upgraded in 1923. The acute medical care unit runs 24 hours. Dr. W. C. Gray was the first professor and head. Jeypore Sri Vikram Deo Varma Medal, Vemuri Sivaji Rao Medal and Dr. P. Kutumbaiah prizes are awarded annually.
* Department of Microbiology
* Department of Nephrology: established by T. Ravi Raju, who has been instrumental in developing the Kidney transplantation facility in the hospital.
* Department of Neurology
* Department of Neurosurgery: started in 1956. It is the first neurosurgical unit of the united Andhra Pradesh. Dr. S. Balaparameswara Rao was its first professor and head of the department. An exclusive unit of 'Head Injury and Intensive Care' was started in 1991. Superspeciality course (M.Ch.) was started in 1986.
* Department of Nuclear Medicine
* Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
* Department of Ophthalmology
* Department of Orthopaedics: set up in 1964 with Dr. C. Vyaghreswarudu as the head of department. An artificial limb center was set up in 1983.
* Department of Otorhinolaryngology
* Department of Paediatric Surgery
* Department of Paediatrics
* Department of Pathology: started in 1923. Dr. T. S. Tirumurti was its first professor. Postgraduate courses were started in 1946. It was upgraded in 1953. The Cytology wing was started in 1996. Dr. T. Bhaskara Menon Memorial prize and Dr. Tatachari medal is annually awarded to meritorious students.
* Department of Pharmacology
* Department of Physiology
* Department of Plastic Surgery
* Department of Psychiatry
* Department of Radiology
* Department of Radiotherapy
* Department of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
* Department of Community Medicine: The Department of Hygiene and Bacteriology was established in 1925. Dr. C. Rama Murty was its first professor. It was renamed as Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in 1955 and now called Department of Community Medicine. The department gives out Silver Jubilee Celebration Committee Prize and Endowment Medal, Dr. Sonti Dakshinamurthy Prize and Dr. Vallabha Sastry Prize every year.
* Department of Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases
* Department of Urology

## Library

Andhra Medical College Central library was established in 1930. By 1987, the library had a collection of 32,000 books and 107 journals.
Recently an independent library building complex was constructed in front of the Panagal building (main building/office) and near the house surgeons and postgraduates men's hostel.

## Teaching hospitals

These Teaching Hospitals are attached with the Andhra Medical College:
* King George Hospital
* Government Victoria Hospital
* Government Hospital For Mental Care
* Rani Chandramani Devi Government Hospital
* Government Hospital for Chest and Communicable Diseases
* Government Regional Eye Hospital
* Government ENT Hospital

## Hostels

The Andhra Medical College provides separate hostels for men, women, house-surgeons and postgraduates.
* AMC Women's Hostel was built in 1942. The hostel has a capacity of accommodating 175 students and has a play ground, reading rooms, recreational centre and library.
* AMC Men's Hostel is in an area of 18 acres (73,000 m$^2$). It was built during the year 1952 with a total of 262 rooms. The hostel has a dining hall, reading room, TV room and recreational centre for indoor games.
* Hostel for House-surgeons and Postgraduates was built in 1965.

## The wings of AMC

* The Institutional Ethics Committee
* The AMC Research Forum
* The Medical Education Cell
* Rasamayi
* Prakriti
* AURA (AMC Undergraduate Research Association) is a recently established research forum for encouraging the undergraduate students to do research in the field of their choice.
Dr R Rednam Surya Prasada Rao professor of ophthalmology who trained many ophthalmologist is considered teacher per excellence As an honor Government Regional Eye Hospital was named after him.
Dr M Suryanarayana Murthy professor of Ophthalmology was considered as one of the greatest teachers which Andhra Medical College ever produced. His encyclopedic knowledge use to enthrall the students. He was called the "Walking Duke Elder" ho wrote 16 volumes on eye called the system of Ophthalmology.

## AMCOSA

Andhra Medical College Old Student's Association (AMCOSA) was formed by the efforts of Prof. P. Brahmayya Sastry and Dr. C. Vyaghreswarudu. The first AMCOSA day was celebrated on 28 January 1967, which was inaugurated by Lt.Col. Dr. M. V. Ramana Murthy, who was the last Surgeon General of the combined Madras Province.

## Notable people

* T. Prabhakar — first vice-Chancellor of Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences
* Hilda Mary Lazarus — principal of AMC and superintendent of KGH
* M. G. Kini — professor of orthopedics
* B. V. Satyanarayana (1927–2005) — professor of dermatology
* V. Ramalingaswami (1921–2001) — Eminent Nutritional Scientist and recipient of Padma Bhushan
* P. Brahmayya Sastry — professor of physiology
* P. Kutumbaiah — professor of medicine
* I. Bhooshana Rao — forensic pathologist and academic
* Kakarla Subba Rao — professor of radiology and director, Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences
* L. Suryanarayana — professor of surgery, principal of AMC and vice-Chancellor, NTR University of Health Sciences
* P. Siva Reddy (1920–2005) — professor of ophthalmology and director of Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital
* Ponduri Venkata Ramana Rao (1917–2005) — professor of microbiology and director of Institute of Preventive Medicine
* Sripada Pinakapani — general physician, Sangeetha Kalanidhi and recipient of Padma Bhushan
* Sonti Dakshina Murthy (1899–1975) — professor of social and preventive medicine
* A. Ranganadha Rao — the first urologist of Andhra Pradesh
* Raman Viswanathan — chest physician and Padma Bhushan awardee
* Seshagiri Mallampati — anesthesiologist, best known for proposing the eponymous Mallampati score