Rajarshee Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj Government Medical College and CPR Hospital

Rajarshi Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj, Government Medical college is located at Dasara Chowk, Bhausingji Road, Kolhapur district, Maharashtra State, India. It was founded in the year 2000. The RCSM GMC is affiliated to Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik. The college is recognized by the Medical Council of India, New Delhi for medical Education in India. The medical college provides training to about 600 students in undergraduate medical courses & about 90 students in post- graduate courses. Apart from MBBS courses, primary DNB as well as post diploma DNB course, DMLT, Ph.D. & Nursing courses are also provided in the institute. A nursing college is also run by the institute. The CPR Hospital has 18 wards with a total of 665 beds and operates with the help of teaching staff viz. 12 Professors, 27 Associate professors & 57 Assistant professors, 434 nursing staff members & paramedics. All admissions to the under graduate courses are administered centrally by the Directorate of Medical Education & Research (DMER), Mumbai. The Common Entrance test, called MHT-CET is conducted by DMER. 15 % of total seats are reserved for all India quota to be filled through all India premedical entrance test (AIPMT) conducted by the Director General of Health Services (DGHS) of Government of India. The institute is mainly funded by Government of Maharashtra and render so many services, virtually free of cost, mostly to the under privileged sections of the society. The CPR hospital popularly known as "Thorala Davakhana" since inception and caters services to the people from neighboring districts viz. Sangli, Satara, Konkan area including Sindhudurga & Ratnagiri, south Karnataka including Belgaum district apart from Kolhapur district. The first MBBS college building is situated in the outskirts of the city, in Shenda Park. Regular bus service for all students is provided by the institute at Shenda Park. There is a beautiful campus of around 40 acres, which is lush green in the monsoon. The campus has small lake popularly know as "Shenda Lake" which is close to the boy's hostel building. The campus has 5 Boy' s hostel buildings, large sports grounds (Football & cricket), a mess, a gym, Dean's Bungalow, and very spacious college buildings.