Government Medical College & ESI Hospital, Coimbatore

Government Medical College & ESI Hospital, Coimbatore, is a Government co-educational Medical College located at Varadharajapuram, Singanallur, Coimbatore. It was established in 2016 under the aegis of the ESI Corporation, a central autonomous body under Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India. The college is attached to a 510-bedded Multi-Speciality Hospital which was built in 2016. During the Covid pandemic, the hospital was the first referral centre for Coimbatore and neighboring districts and was the chief covid treatment centre that treated patients following which the number of beds were increased to 1000. It is also the only govt college in Tamil Nadu where all the wings of AYUSH are functional.
The college has an intake of 100 students per year via neet counselling. 85 seats are under State quota and 15 seats under the All India quota. As of 2021, all five batches are filled and the college is fast emerging as one of the best centres for medical education in the region. In 2022, 5 Postgraduate seats have also been started for Emergency Medicine in this college.
Student Life on Campus
The college has a very active student life involving culturals and academic activities.
Batches
The first five Batches are named as such:
2016 - Excalibranz
2017 - Salvarianz
2018 - Xanthronz
2019 - Zenforianz
2020 - Valerianz
2021 - Zavendorfz
2022 - Heilenthronz
Cultural Activities and Fests
Anatomy Model Making Competition- 3D Model Making
Anatomy Art Competition
Pongal Celebration 2016- Pattimandram and Tug of war were the main events to headline the function.
Ephedra-19 - First edition of Intracollege culturals
வியன்கா'19 - First grand event of Tamilmandram
Aadhava Vidiyal'21 - Pongal Celebration ( Native Parai Drummers were the special attraction that made headlines all over Coimbatore )
EsiOnam - Onam Celebration
Aurora'21 - Intracollege Online Cultural Event
Ephedra 2.0 '22 - Intracollege Culturals
Academic Activities
The major academic activities include quizzing tournaments organised by the quiz clubs of the college to promote active learning and bonding via competitive quizzing on medical subjects. Seminars are also presented by students time to time to inculcate CME training.
Renal Quiz- Intracollege Renal Quiz
Enteroquiz'18 - Intracollege Gastroenterology Quiz
Corpuscles'19 -Intracollege Hematology Quiz
Rhythm'21 - Intracollege Online Cardiology Quiz
Student Seminar Competitions
Research activities - Individual and ICMR Medical Student Research activity
Academic events like CME, Clinical case discussion, Symposium, Physician meet, Journal club, Surgeons meet will be conducted regularly in respective departments.
Sports
The college has an active sports environment that includes badminton, volleyball, kabbadi, kho-kho, football and cricket teams that have played and won multiple intercollege competitions.
Ephedra Sports Fest- the sports fest was held in tandem with the Ephedra culturals.
The sports facilities include a cricket ground, a football ground and Volleyball and Badminton Courts.
Campus Facilities
The entire campus has been divided into two parts. The first segment consists of the college block, auditorium, covid block, Girls hostel buildings(2 in number), cricket ground, football ground, mortuary,boys hostel and boys intern hostel. The second segment comprises the OPD, IPD,24×7 Buildings, ESI dispensary, girls intern hostel and staff quarters.
As of 2022, autopsies are being conducted at the mortuary and includes minimum 4 or 5 autopsies a day.
The EMD is functional and caters only to ESI patients for the time being and also general public who are RTA victims for 48hrs under the NK-48 scheme.
POSTGRADUATE COURSE
As of 2022, 5 seats for MD in Emergency Medicine have been sanctioned and postgraduates have been enrolled under NEET PG.The candidates divide their time between EMD and other postings for exposure in all departments.