King Edward Memorial Hospital and Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College
Official Logo of S.G.S. Medical College & K.E.M. Hospital | |
Motto | Non Sibi Sed Omnibus |
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Type | Education and research institution |
Established | 1926 |
Endowment | Public |
Dean | Avinash Supe |
Location | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
Affiliations | Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik |
King Edward Memorial Hospital and Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College (Marathi: Rājā Êḍvarḍ (Sātavē) Smārak Rugṇālaya Va Sēṭh Gōvardhandās Sundaradās Vaidyakīya Mahāvidyālaya), located in Mumbai, is amongst the foremost teaching and medical care providing institutions in India.[1] It was founded in 1926, and is affiliated to Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS), Nashik.[2]
The medical college (school) provides training to about 2000 students in undergraduate, postgraduate and superspeciality medical courses; in undergraduate and postgraduate physical and occupational therapy courses; Masters and PhD courses in various allied specialties. A nursing school is also maintained by this institution.[3]
With about 390 staff physicians and 550 resident doctors, the 1800 bedded hospital treats about 1.8 million out-patients and 85,000 in-patients annually. It provides both basic care and advanced treatment facilities in all fields of medicine and surgery.[3] Funded mainly by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, this institution renders virtually free of cost service to the underprivileged sections of the society.[3]
Rankings
University and college rankings | |
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Medical - India | |
India Today (2017)[4] | 7 |
Outlook India (2017)[5] | 8 |
The Week (2017)[6] | 12 |
Merit list toppers across the state of Maharashtra, select this civic-run medical college as their first preference.[7] The college was ranked seventh among medical colleges in India in 2017 by India Today,[4] 12th by The Week,[6] and eighth by Outlook India.[5]
Notable alumni
Notable alumni include:
- Dwarkanath Kotnis (1910-1942) Indian humanitarian physician, served in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War
- Keshavrao Krishnarao Datey (1912–1983) Cardiologist, Padma Bhushan (1969), Fellow Royal College of Physicians[8]
- Sharad Panday (1934-2004) Indian cardiothoracic surgeon, part of the team that performed the first heart transplant in India.[9]
- Tehemton Erach Udwadia (b. 1934) Gastroenterologist, Dr. B. C. Roy Award (2000), Padma Shri (2006), Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (2006)[10][11]
Notable Milestones[12]
- The first Indian Medical College of modern medicine to be fully staffed by qualified Indian doctors.
- The first Occupational Therapy School in Asia
- The first Physiotherapy School in Southeast Asia
- The first Plasma Fractionation Unit in Asia
- The first Indian hospital to have an Ayurveda Research Centre in conjunction with an allopathic set-up
- The first Indian Medical College and Hospital having an indexed medical journal (Journal of Postgraduate Medicine)
- The only Department of Sexology for a billion people
- The first clinical pharmacology ward in the country
- The first dedicated Orthopaedic department in the country
- The first department of Cardio-thoracic Pathology in India
- The first Nutrition Research Unit attached with a physiology department in India
- The first department of cardiovascular and thoracic anaesthesia in India
- First specialized epilepsy surgery department in Western India
- First department of interventional electrophysiology in western India
- First dedicated Esophageal Laboratory in the country
- First Intensive Cardiac Care Unit in India
- The first Indian hospital to perform a live donor kidney transplant in India
- The first Indian hospital to perform heart transplant surgery
- The first liver transplant in India (1968)
- The first documented test-tube baby in India
- The first Indian hospital to acquire an ECG machine
- The first mitral commisurotomy in India (1952)
- The first Indian hospital to perform craniofacial surgery
- Pioneering work on the use of diethylcarbamazine in tropical eosinophilia
- Pioneering work on the use of Rauwolffia serpentina in hypertension
- First balloon atrial septostomy procedure in the country
- First balloon dilatation of cor-triatriatum in the world
- First fetal echocardiography-guided interventional therapy in the country
- First transcatheter closure of ASD in Western India
- The first cadaveric temporal bone and micro ear surgery workshops (1976)
- The first Department of Preventive and Social Medicine to start a Mobile Health Unit in India (1964)
- Highest annual processing of blood samples in India (about 36,000/year in 1998, 1999)
- Highest annual collection of blood unit in India (about 30,000/year in 1998, 1999)
- Highest number of blood donation camps held by a single blood bank in India
- Single largest collection in India with a single Blood Bank in a day: 5679 units of blood
- Pioneering work on in-vitro testing of Indian hepatoprotective agents
- First intravenous anesthesia with Thipentone sodium (1940s)
- First hypothermia technique for ASD (1953)
- First All India Conference of Indian Society of Anesthetists (1949)
- First total spinal technique for controlled hypotension (1954)
- Largest numbers of presidents of Indian Society of Anesthetists from a single Institution (five)
- First cardiac catherisation in India 1959-60
- Pioneering work on recreation of reptilean heart vascular pattern in mammalian heart (1965)
- Pioneering work on the association of tuberculosis with non-specific aortoarteritis (1963)
- First interventional radiological procedures in India 1975
- Discovery of Bombay Blood group
- Pioneering work on release and grafting of trismus in submucus fibrosis
See also
References
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2011. Information from Official website of KEM Hospital
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 29 December 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-22. M.U.H.S. College Information
- 1 2 3 "kem website". KEM hospital. 2018. Retrieved Jun 15, 2018.
- 1 2 "India's Best Colleges 2017: Medical". India Today. 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
- 1 2 "Top 25 Medical Colleges In 2017". Outlook India. 5 June 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
- 1 2 Singh, Abhinav (18 June 2017). "The Week - Hansa Research Best Colleges Survey 2017: Top Medical Colleges - All India". The Week. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
- ↑ "DNA article". dna correspondent. 2011. Retrieved Jul 5, 2011.
- ↑ "Lives of Fellows: Keshavrao Krishnarao Datey". Royal College of Physicians. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
- ↑ "KEM TURNS 90 Dr Sharad Pandey holds a heart during India's first heart transplant". mumbaimirror.com.
- ↑ "Four Runners profile". Four Runners Healthcare. 2015. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
- ↑ "Dr. Tehemton Erach Udwadia (Mumbai)". Indian Med Guru. 2015. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
- ↑ "Journal of Postgraduate Medicine" (PDF). Staff Society of Seth G. S. Medical College and K. E. M. Hospital, Mumbai, India. 2018. Retrieved June 17, 2018.