Stanley Medical College

The Stanley Medical College and Hospital today stand as one of the earliest and pioneering centre for Excellence in India for the field of Medicine. The quality and success emanating from the hundreds of stanleans in India and abroad is a true testimony to the teaching of their alma mater.The seed for this institution was sown as early as 1740. The East India Company first created the Medical Department for training assistants and native doctors. The first batch of this school consisted of eleven 'Natives" and eleven 'Eurasians' the 'dressers' and 'Apothecaries'. The Stanley Hospital now stands on the old site of 'Monegar Choultry' established in 1782. It was a period of great famine and the Coultry was established to take care of the suffering poor. Thus the legendary 'Kanji thotti' was built to distribute ameliorative dobs and alms. Due to the untiring effort of an Assistant Surgeon John Uder Wood, the Government amalgamated the Monegar Choultry and its Leper Asylum with his private hospital called the 'Native Infirmary' in 1809. In 1880 a well known Philanthropist, Raja Sir Ramaswami Mudhaliar, endowed a lying in hospital and a 'dispensary' in the premises of the 'Native Infiemary".With the establishment of the University of Madras in 1836 the degree course of M.B. & G.M. and LM. & S., was introduced in the Native Infirmary as a separate Auxiliary Medical School. In 1903, the Hospital Assistant course was introduced and the school was housed in the Old Bullet Factory of the East India Company. In 1911, the first batch of the outgoing students were awarded their Diploma in LMP (Licences Medical Practitioner) In 1933, the fiver years of D.M & S. (Diploma in Medicine & Surgery) coursed with detailed curriculum was inagurated by his Excellency George Fredrick Stanley, the then Governor of Madras Presidency and the School was named after him as Stanley Medical School - with effect from 27.3.1934. In 1938, the Medical School was upgraded as the Stanley Medical College, afiiliated to the Madras University admitting 72 students to the MBBS course. Hon'ble T.S.S.Rajan, Minister of Public Health in the first Popolar Minisrty in the State Inagurated the college on 2.7.1938. In 1941 there were 3 Medical and Surgical units, and from 1964 onwards there were 7 Medical and 7 Surgical Uniits. The strength of the students for the MBBS course was increased from 72 to 100 in 1950, to 150 from 1963 and 250 from 2013. In 1964, Dr.Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, the President of India laid the foundation stone for the College Auditorium thanks to the endeavour of the Stanleans who raised One lakh Rupees to mark the Silver Jubilee celebration.The College is bestowed with the prestigious Stanley Hospital with a bed strength of 1560 and O.P. attendance of 6195 per day.The unique feature is the 8 storey Surgical Complex which houses all Surgical Specialities under one roof. The Institute of Surgical Paediatrics housed another 8 storeyed block is another novel feature that Stanley is proud and a well develpoed Medical Imaging Department which backs up the Medical Profession with equipments including the wholebody scanner. the department of Immunology with a full fledged Laboratory started functioning w.r.f. 2.4.1991. Institue of Research and Rehabiliation of Hand and Department of Plastic Surgery, is a feather in the cap of Stanley for its pioneering status in South East Asia. Stanley can also be proud of the new building with its state of the art equipments the department has acquired in the year 2003. The department of surgical Gastro-enterology in the year 1999 expanded as Department of Surgical Gastro-enterology and Hepato-Pancreatico Biliary Diseases and GI Bleed Center of Government Stanley Hospital and Stanley Medical College. This was the pilot projecdt sponsored by the Tamil Nadu Medical Service Corporationand was awarded ISO 9002 for its international quality care and excellence. Stanley is also the first Government Medical College to perform Liver Transplantation in India, even two decades ago. The department is sanctioned, a new 'Liver Transplantation Unit' by the Government of Tamil Nadu in 2005 as a centre if excellence, adding one more feather to its cap and to Stanley.