Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad

About Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad

Osmania Medical College is a medical school in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. It was founded in 1846 as the Hyderabad Medical School making it one of the oldest medical schools in the world. It is presently affiliated to the NTR University of Health Sciences. The College was originally affiliated to the Osmania University of Hyderabad.
The Main Undergraduate course offered at the School is an MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) course.
In addition the college also offers other undergraduate courses and many Postgraduate (graduate) courses. It also offers many Superspeciality courses.
The College campus is situated in Koti, which is at the heart of the city of Hyderabad. It houses a four-storied building for the administrative and academic sections of the college. In addition it has an auditorium, about the size of a cinema hall. It also has boarding facilities in the form of 4 large hostel buildings. (and also a small building for the alumni association)

The campus also has reasonable sports facilities in the form a football/cricket (multipurpose) ground, an outdoor basketball court with lighting facility, a tennis court, volleyball court and a Table Tennis room. There is an outdoor badminton court in one of the hostel buildings.
Osmania Medical college has long been a government institution in Andhra Pradesh. It is the oldest medical school in India and perhaps Asia. The concept of Osmania Medical College dates back to 1595 AD, then called as Dar-Ul-Shifa in Hyderabad, making it the oldest medical school.[1]

Osmania has a rich history of pioneering medical innovations. For the first time, chloroform was used as an anesthetic in Osmania. The causative agent of malaria was elucidated by Sir Ronald Ross who has been immortalised by the Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Tropical and Communicable Diseases (popular by name Fever Hospital) affiliated to Osmania.

The medium of instruction was initially Urdu (the degree was Hakeem) and later changed to English. In 1846, Hyderabad Medical School was established. An article about the 150 years (1846-1996)of Osmania Medical College was published in Bulletin of The Indian Institute of History of Medicine, and featured in Pubmed. It recently celebrated Platinum Jubilee. [1].

Osmania is the only medical college in India (and perhaps the world), where each medical speciality has a separate training hospital. It is also the only medical college in south India to offer a postgraduate course in endocrinology

Affiliated to NTR university of Health sciences,Vijayawada.The Hyderabad Medical School which came into existence in 1846 A.D. was the fore-runner of Osmania Medical College. The medium of instruction was Urdu the degree was Hakeem. Last two decades of nineteenth century was the glorious period of this school. Seventh and the last Nizam of Hyderabad Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan established Osmania University in 1919 A.D. and in the following year the Hyderabad Medical College. In 1957 A.D. Hyderabad became the Capital of enlarged Andhra Pradesh. Tremendous zeal and enthusiasm was evident to achieve all-round progress in medical education. Medical Education, Research and health care of the people are vastly improved by the presence of medical college and teaching hospital in any area and in an atmosphere of medical research. This is true of Hyderabad also.

Osmania Medical College is a medical school in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. It was founded in 1846 as the Hyderabad Medical School making it one of the oldest medical schools in the world. It is presently affiliated to the NTR University of Health Sciences. The College was originally affiliated to the Osmania University of Hyderabad.