Calcutta National Medical College

Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata

Type	Government Medical College and Hospital
Established	1948
Principal	Dr. Prof: Manjushree Ray
Dean	Dr. Prof: Partha Pratim Mukherjee
Address	32, Gorachand Road Beniapukur Kolkata-700014 West Bengal, India
Affiliations	West Bengal University of Health Sciences
Website	www.cnmckolkata.in

The Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital is a medical education and research institution in Kolkata. It was established by the amalgamation of the National Medical Institute (estd. 1921) and Calcutta Medical Institute.

Establishment

The Calcutta National Medical College has its origin in the National Medical Institute or "Jatiya Ayurbigyan Vidyalaya" in 1921, founded as a product of the Non-cooperation movement. It was inaugurated by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. The College is locally known as Chittaranjan Hospital. Established in 1948 the institute was nationalized in 1967. The college is accredited by the Medical Council of India (MCI). It was affiliated with the University of Calcutta till 2003. It is currently affiliated to the West Bengal University of Health Sciences.

Academic Section of Calcutta National Medical College

The founder principal of the college was Dr Sundari Mohan Das.^[1]

Admission

Admission to this institute is on a merit basis and by national-level competitive examinations. Previously admission to the undergraduate course was through WBJEE and AIPMT. From 2017 onwards NEET has become the sole entrance test for admission to the undergraduate as well as post graduate courses. 15% undergraduate seats are filled up through all India quota and 85% undergraduate seats are filled up through state quota. For post graduate seats half are filled up through all India quota and the rest are filled up through state quota. Every year 200 students are admitted to the MBBS course based on their National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET-UG) rankings. Admission to the post graduate courses is through NEET-PG conducted by the National Board of Examinations (NBE). ^[2]

Annual intake^[3]

• Paramedical - 73
• Undergraduate - MBBS : 200
  Nursing : 50
• Post Graduate - Degree : 96
  Diploma : 4
• Post Doctoral (Super-specialization) : 6

Departments^[4]

Hospital

Calcutta National Medical College (CNMC) is popularly known as Chittaranjan Hospital. The second campus of CNMC previously Calcutta Pavlov Hospital houses the psychiatry department.^[5] It is one of the biggest govt. medical colleges of West Bengal having extensive OPD and advanced health care services with more than 6,000 patients per day. Total bed strength is 1470

Campus life

• College Campus - The college campus and hospital are located on either side of CIT Road. .
  The non clinical and para clinical departments are present in the college campus area. It also houses the Central Library building which can accommodate more than 800 students in its reading rooms. The CNMC Library has more than 17000 books and hundreds of medical journals.

• Sports - The college campus provides opportunity for indoor as well as outdoor games like Cricket, football, table tennis, carrom, badminton and volleyball.

• Angiogram - Angiogram is the cultural society of Calcutta National Medical College, under the umbrella of the Students' Union.

Cultural Activity

A number of cultural programmes are organised by the CNMC Students' Union, which include:

• Saraswati Puja
• Freshers' Welcome - Uddalok
• Holi
• Annual college picnic - Ullas
• Rabindra Jayanti
• Independence Day
• Annual cultural festival - AGON
• Diwali
• Reunion - Every year the CNMC Alumni Association organises Reunion, a 3 day gala event, in the college campus.

AGON - The annual cultural festival

AGON is the annual cultural festival of Calcutta National Medical College, organised by the CNMC Students' Union. AGON is reportedly the biggest medical college festival of Eastern India.^[6] Since its inception in 1980 Agon has been one of the most sought after college festivals among the medical student fraternity in West Bengal.

• Prefest - Agon Prefest is held for 4-7 days prior to the main fest. Prefest events include: Intercollege Sports Tournament (cricket, football, volleyball, badminton, table tennis, carrom and chess), Cinefest, Short-Film Festival, Solo and group creative events, CME (Continued medical education), Seminars, Dance workshop, Medical workshops, Blood donation camps, awareness campaigns etc.
• Fest - Following the traditions of the past four decades the main fest Agon is held for 4 days. It begins just after the prefest. Events include: Dance & Music contests, Battle of Band, Crime Scene Investigation, Treasure Hunt, Medi Quiz, General Quiz, Fandom Quizzes(Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Friends, DC-Marvel), Stand-Up comedy, Drama competition, Street Play, X-Factor, Paradox - The Fashion Show etc.

Among the major attractions of Agon are the 4 concert nights, which has regional artists, Bollywood celebrities, EDM concerts and DJ night. Agon has witnessed stellar performances from Arijit Singh, Neha Kakkar, Sunidhi Chauhan, KK (singer), Mohit Chauhan, Mohammed Irfan (singer) , Shalmali Kholgade, Shraddha Pandit, Fossils (band), Euphoria (Indian band), Javed Ali, Neeraj Shridhar, Rupankar, Anupam Roy etc.

The cultural festival embraces the likes of many famous celebrities of the country, drawing about 5000 footfalls a day. With more than 40 inter college events and competitions spanning for more than a week, the fest is graced by more than 3000 college students, post graduate trainees, resident doctors, alumni of the college and faculty members. Students from more than 60 schools and colleges from Kolkata as well as from other parts of Eastern India take part in the competitions and attend the concerts. ^[7] A number of social initiatives are undertaken by the Students' Union as part of the annual cultural festival AGON, which includes Blood donation camps, Thalassaemia screening camps, awareness campaigns etc.

Increase in seats

This institute like other medical colleges in West Bengal reportedly have inadequate number of undergraduate seats to cater to increasing public health demands. In 2016, after the intervention of the West Bengal government, Medical Council of India increased the number of undergraduate MBBS seats from 150 to 200. In 2017 more number of post graduate and post doctoral seats have been added by MCI.

Notable alumni

• Subhash Mukhopadhyay, first Indian and second physician in the world to perform in-vitro fertilization.
• Avijit Lahiri, Director of Cardiac Imaging & Research Department in Wellington Hospital, United Kingdom
• Kesab Baliram Hegdewar, founder of RSS
• Sidhartha Sankar Ray("Sidhu"), lead vocalist of the band Cactus^[8]

References

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