Govt. Medical College (Surat)

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Govt. Medical College and New Civil Hospital, Surat


Govt. Medical College, Surat was established in the year 1964 with the primary objective of imparting medical education and for extending tertiary level care for the patients of South Gujarat and surrounding regions. The campus sprawling over an area of approx. 130 acres now houses the main buildings of Medical College, New Civil Hospital, hostel for students and residential quarters for different categories of staff.

At present the college admits 150 students for M.B.B.S. degree course every year. Post-graduate degree and diploma courses are also run in most of the subjects. The hospital has a bed strength of 1050. Nearly 2000 out patients attend the hospital and about 75-80 patients are admitted daily. Facilities for medical and/or surgical treatment of various ailments are provided in different departments manned by qualified and experienced clinicians.

There is scope for improvement and expansion of facilities in various areas. The existing physical facilities need continuous up gradation in terms of infrastructure, furnishing of interiors, instruments and equipments, etc. Simultaneously improvement of the skills of manpower is also essential. New facilities are also required to be added mainly the super-specialties like cardiology, neurology, nephrology, gastroenterology, endocrinology, etc. Besides this new post-graduate courses like emergency medicine, transfusion medicine, genetics and molecular medicine, nuclear medicine, oncology, immunology, health and medical statistics, bioinformtics, hospital administration, etc. should also be started.

Related degree and post-graduate courses like dental, nursing, physiotherapy are the need of the hour particularly in this region having large tribal and backward population. Courses for training specialty technicians should also be given a priority.

More emphasis is needed to encourage research in different areas of national and local importance. Efforts should also be made to constantly monitor the quality of medical education and to evolve innovative techniques for improvement to make it need based.

Some of the above programmes can be initiated with in the existing infrastructure and other facilities. For others new provisions are required. The campus has adequate space available for creating such facilities.