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{{short description|Medical school and hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal, India}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}}
{{Infobox university
| name = Medical College, Kolkata
| image_name = Medical College, Bengal Logo.svg
| latin_name = Bengala Medicus Collegium
| motto = {{lang-la|Cum Humanitate Scientia}}
| mottoeng = Humanity and Science
| type = [[Public hospital|Public]] [[medical school]]
| established = {{Start date and age|paren=yes|br=yes|28 January 1835}}
| founder = [[Lord William Bentinck]]
| principal Dr. = Indranil Biswas
| budget = {{INRConvert|71.878|c}}<br />{{small|([[Fiscal year|FY]]2021–22 est.)}}<ref name=nirf_stud/>
| faculty = 263 ({{small|2023}})<ref name=nirf_stud/>
| students = 1,889 ({{small|2023}})<ref name=nirf_stud>{{cite web|title=NIRF 2023 |url=https://www.medicalcollegekolkata.in/Download_file/file_doc/1674636565587_1674636524755_Medical_College20230103-.pdf|publisher=Medical College, Bengal}}</ref>
| undergrad = 1,246 ({{small|2023}})<ref name=nirf_stud/>
| postgrad = 638 ({{small|2023}})<ref name=nirf_stud/>
| doctoral = 5 ({{small|2023}})<ref name=nirf_stud/>
| campus = [[Metropolis|Large city]]<br />{{small|{{convert|26|acre|ha}}}}
| address = 88 College Street, [[Kolkata]] 700001
| coordinates = {{coord|22.5736|N|88.3619|E|format=dms|region:IN-WB_type:edu|display=inline,title}}
| academic_affiliations = {{hlist|[[West Bengal University of Health Sciences|WBUHS]]|[[National Medical Commission|NMC]]}}
| website = {{Official URL}}
}}

'''Medical College, Kolkata''', also known as '''Calcutta Medical College''', is a [[Public university|public]] [[medical school|medical college]] and [[hospital]] located in [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]. It is one of the oldest existing hospitals in Asia.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bandyopadhyay |first=Krishnendu |date=October 4, 2018 |title=Looking back at the oldest surviving block in Asia's medical history |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/looking-back-at-the-oldest-surviving-block-in-asias-medical-history/articleshow/66062483.cms |access-date=2022-03-19 |website=The Times of India |language=en}}</ref> The institute was established on 28 January 1835 by [[Lord William Bentinck]] during [[British Raj]] as '''Medical College, Bengal'''. It is the second oldest medical college to teach Western medicine in Asia after [[Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research|Ecole de Médicine de Pondichéry]] and the first institute to teach in English language. The hospital associated with the college is the largest hospital in [[West Bengal]]. The college offers [[Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery|MBBS]] degree after five and a half years of medical training.

[[File:CMC administrative.JPG|right|thumb|200px|Front façade of the administrative block]]
[[File:Calcutta Medical College & Hospital main entrance at College Street, Kolkata.jpg|thumb|200px|Calcutta Medical College & Hospital main entrance at [[College Street (Kolkata)|College Street]], Kolkata.]]

== Rankings ==
{{Infobox India university ranking
| type = University and college

| NIRF_M_2022 = 43
}}
Medical College, Kolkata ranked 43rd among Medical Institution by ''[[National Institutional Ranking Framework]]'' (NIRF) in 2022.<ref name="Rankings_NIRF_M_2022" />

==Politics==
[[File:Martyr of Vietnam Day Police Firing-Sree Dhiraranjan Sen.jpg|thumb|Plaque in memory of Sree Dhiraranjan Sen]]
Student politics is rooted in tradition, with many students participating in the Indian freedom struggle.<ref name=Dasgupta>{{cite book|last1=Dāśagupta|first1=Hīrena|last2=Adhikārī|first2=Harinārāẏaṇa|title=Bhāratīẏa Upamāhādeśera chātra āndolana|date=2008|publisher=Ryāḍikyāla|location=Kalakātā|isbn=978-8185459806|trans-title=Student Movement in Indian Sub-continent|language=bn}}</ref> Anti-British movements were implemented with the programmes of Bengal Provincial Students' Federation (BPSF),<ref name=Dasgupta/> the Bengal branch of [[All India Students Federation|All India Students' Federation]]. Student politics was initially focused on the independence of India.<ref name=Dasgupta/> In 1947, Sree Dhiraranjan Sen, a student of the college, died during a Vietnam Day police firing.<ref>{{cite book|title=Bengal Legislative Council Debates (1947)|date=1947|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.47479/page/n682 79]–88|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.47479}}</ref> The Vietnam Students’ Association passed a resolution in its Hanoi session in memory of Sen in March 1947.<ref>{{cite book|title=ভারতের ছাত্র আন্দোলনের ইতিহাস|trans-title=History of India's student movement|first=Gautam|last=Chattopadhyay|language=bn}}</ref>

Student politics were highly influenced by the partition of Bengal and communal riots during and after the [[partition of India]].<ref name=PRC>{{cite book|title=পিপলস্ রিলিফ কমিটি দ্যুতিময় ইতিবৃত্ত|trans-title=People's Relief Committee:A Glowing Account|publisher=People's Relief Committee|first1=Purnendu|last1=Jha|first2=Naresh|last2=Banerjee|pages=11, 42–61|language=bn|year=2003}}</ref> 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 [[List of chief ministers of West Bengal|Chief Minister of West Bengal]], established the Students' Health Home for the welfare of students.<ref name=PRC/><ref>{{cite book|title=স্টুডেন্টস্ হেলথ হোম(প্রথম দশক)|trans-title=Students' Health Home (The First Decade)|first=Pashupatinath|last=Chattopadhaya|publisher=Arun Sen Memorial Committee|language=bn|year=2001}}</ref>

From the 1950s to the 1970s, the college became a centre of leftist and far-left politics.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Chakraborty|first1=Shyamal|title=60–70 Er Chatra Andolan|date=2011|publisher=N.B.A Pvt Ltd|isbn=9788176262408|language=bn}}</ref> Student politics was highly influenced by the [[Naxalbari uprising]] in the early 1970s.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mitra|first1=Saibal|title=Saater Chhatra Andolon|trans-title=An essay on Student Movement of Sixties|isbn=81-7990-069-X|language=bn}}</ref>
[[File:Main building of Calcutta Medical College and Hospital 03.jpg|thumb|Main building of Calcutta Medical College and Hospital]]

==Development==
[[File:Stamp of India - 1985 - Colnect 167185 - Medical College Calcutta.jpeg|thumb|Indian postage stamp of 1985 dedicated to the Calcutta Medical College]]
In August 2003, the then union health minister [[Sushma Swaraj]] had given the in-principle assented nod to the upgrade of MCH, Kolkata on the lines of AIIMS.
<ref>{{Cite news|date=Aug 4, 2003|title=Calcutta Medical College AIIMS high|work=[[The Times of India]] 01:32 IST|location= Kolkata|url=https://m.timesofindia.com/india/Calcutta-Medical-College-AIIMS-high/articleshow/110928.cms|access-date=April 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507224322/https://m.timesofindia.com/india/Calcutta-Medical-College-AIIMS-high/articleshow/110928.cms|archive-date=May 7, 2021}}</ref>

==Notable alumni==
{{alumni|date=June 2023}}
* [[Lamu Amatya]], First Nepalese nurse<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-05-01 |title=Government declares late Lamu Amatya Nepal's first nurse |url=https://thehimalayantimes.com/kathmandu/government-declares-late-lamu-amatya-nepals-first-nurse |access-date=2022-10-13 |website=thehimalayantimes.com}}</ref>
* [[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]], Indian pharmacologist, medical academic and the director of [[Haffkine Institute]]
*[[Lionel Emmett]], member of the Indian [[field hockey]] team in the [[1936 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Muhammad Ibrahim]], former Principal of [[Sir Salimullah Medical College]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://m.dailyinqilab.com/article/38899/%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AE|title= একজন ডা. ইব্রাহিম|website= Daily Inqilab|language=bn|access-date=2023-05-04}}</ref>
*[[Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri|Sri Yukteshwar Giri]], Indian Yogi
* [[Dipyaman Ganguly]], [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development|N-Bios laureate]]<ref name="Profile on SERB">{{Cite web |url=http://www.serb.gov.in/pdfs/ramanujan2014/Dipyaman-Ganguly.pdf |title=Profile on SERB |date=2018-12-27 |website=Scientific and Engineering Research Board |access-date=2018-12-27}}</ref>
* [[Kadambini Ganguly]], the first certified [[South Asia]]n female physician qualified for Western medical practice
* [[Madhusudan Gupta]], the first Indian trained in Western medicine to dissect a human corpse.
* [[David Hare (philanthropist)|David Hare]], founder of [[Hare School]]
* [[K. B. Hedgewar]], also known as Doctorji, was the founding [[List of Sarsanghchalaks of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh|Sarsanghachalak]] of the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]]. 
* [[Vikram Marwah]], [[Padma Shri]] awardee, conferred [[Dr. B. C. Roy Award]] by the [[President of India]]
* [[Nurul Islam (physician)|Nurul Islam]], [[National Professor]] of Bangladesh<ref name=death>{{cite news|url=http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2013/01/24/national-prof-nurul-islam-dies|title=National Prof Nurul Islam dies|date=January 24, 2013|access-date=2023-05-01|newspaper=bdnews24.com|author=Mintu Chowdhury}}</ref>
* [[Kamaleshwar Mukherjee]], filmmaker
* [[M. D. Ray]], surgical oncologist and author
* [[Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay]]
* [[N. C. Paul]], first physician to examine yoga
* [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]], noted physician and the 2nd Chief Minister of [[West Bengal]]
* [[Sisir Kumar Bose]], noted paediatrician,nephew of [[Subhas Chandra Bose]] and son of [[Sarat Chandra Bose]]
* [[Ram Baran Yadav]], first [[president of Nepal]]

==See also==
*[[Calcutta Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital]]
*[[Calcutta Unani Medical College and Hospital]]
*[[Ezra Hospital]]
*[[List of hospitals in India]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Bibliography==
* David Arnold, ''Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth Century India'', Delhi, 1993
* Calcutta Medical College, ''The Centenary of the Medical College, Bengal, 1835–1934''. Calcutta, 1935
* {{cite book|last1=Das|first1=Anirban|last2=Sen|first2=Samita|editor=Dasgupta, Uma|title=Science and Modern India: An Institutional History, C. 1784–1947|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lrx3wLz4itkC|year=2011|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=978-81-317-2818-5|pages=477–522|chapter=A history of the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, 1835–1936}}
* Poonam Bala, ''Imperialism and Medicine in Bengal: A Socio-Historical Perspective'', New Delhi, 1991
* Sen, S.N., ''Scientific and Technical Education in India 1781–1900'', Indian National Science Academy, 1991

==External links==

* {{official}}

{{Colleges affiliated to West Bengal University of Health Sciences}}
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