Assam Medical College

Name :

Assam Medical College

Address  :

Barbari,

Town  :

Dibrugarh

State  :

Assam

Country  :

INDIA

Post Code:

786002

Phone  :

(0373) 2300080, 2300352

Fax  :

(0373) 2300080

Web URL  :

Available

Email  :

principalamch@rediffmail.com

Description

Assam Medical College Dibrugarh is one of the premier and oldest medical institutes of the NE region of India British Philanthropist Sir John Berry White a retired brigadier of British army and later the civil surgeon of the erstwhile Lakhimpur district in 1870 contributed his lifetime earning of Rupees Fifty Thousand present day valuation is more than 50 million of rupees to establish his brain child Berry White Medical School in 1900 AD This school heralded the beginning of Allopathic Medical Education by conferring LMP Diploma in old undivided Assam In 1938 the Assam Branch of Licentiate Medical Practitioner in its annual meeting under the chairmanship of Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi the then premier of the Congress Govt of Assam decided to upgrade the Berry White Medical School to a full fledged Medical College Assam Medical College Dibrugarh was established in 3rd November 1947 in the erstwhile US Military hospital of the second world war at Borbari Dibrugarh through a process of upgradation of Berry White Medical School immediately after independence inaugurated formally by First chief Minister of Assam Late Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi The admission of the first batch of students was completed in September 1947 with 6 seats

History

Assam Medical College Dibrugarh is one of the premier and oldest medical institutes of the NE region of India British Philanthropist Sir John Berry White a retired brigadier of British army and later the civil surgeon of the erstwhile Lakhimpur district in 1870 contributed his lifetime earning of Rupees Fifty Thousand present day valuation is more than 50 million of rupees to establish his brain child Berry White Medical School in 1900 AD This school heralded the beginning of Allopathic Medical Education by conferring LMP Diploma in old undivided Assam In 1938 the Assam Branch of Licentiate Medical Practitioner in its annual meeting under the chairmanship of Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi the then premier of the Congress Govt of Assam decided to upgrade the Berry White Medical School to a full fledged Medical College Assam Medical College Dibrugarh was established in 3rd November 1947 in the erstwhile US Military hospital of the second world war at Borbari Dibrugarh through a process of upgradation of Berry White Medical School immediately after independence inaugurated formally by First chief Minister of Assam Late Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi The admission of the first batch of students was completed in September 1947 with 6th seats

Dr Hem Chandra Baruah was the first principal at Assam Medical College The hospital wing of the college was formally inaugurated by the then Governor Sri Prakash in February 1948 The outpatient department and many para clinical and clinical department continued to function till 1950 in the former Berry White Medical School Graham Bazar All departments and outdoors were shifted to the present AMCH campus at Borbari only after the great earthquake of Assam in 1950
Twelve students of the first batch graduated from AMCH under Gauhati University in 1952 same year the Indian Medical Council recognized the degree after inspection of the college and entered in the first schedule
The devotion amp sincerity of the teachers with calibre recruited from other part of the country laid the strong foundation for the future discipline academic achievements and progress of AMC Prof G D Kapoor Surgery Prof P N Taneja Prof N Gupta Prof B H P Pai Med Prof K S Grewal Pharmacology Prof P C Nambiar Surgery Prof R G Krishnan OampG Prof A E Sundersan and Prof N C Dey Pathology Prof R Bhattacharyya were some of those giants walked through the corridors of the newly established Assam Medical College amp Hospital Dibrugarh Prof S N Sharma was the first person from Assam to become Professor of Surgery and later became the principal of the College Post graduate Courses were introduced in 1960 and the first batch of postgraduates in General Surgery and Medicine qualified in 1963 The departments of General Medicine and General Surgery were upgraded in 1965 and 1967 respectively
Assam Medical College since its inception has produced more than 7536 medical graduates Starting initially with 65 seats it presently enrolls 170 students into MBBS course every year Post Graduate classes started in 1962 and till date the college can boast of producing more than 2758 specialists both degree and diploma holders At preset average daily attendance of patients in the OPD in AMC is around 1500
The role of this pioneer medical institute during the past six decades in extending health care services to millions of needy patients is laudable Besides this the institute provides medical and paramedical manpower and training to various Governments industrial and private hospitals of entire NorthEast region including faculty development for establishment of new medical colleges
The contributions made by this premiere medical institute are not only monumental but also of great significance in the development of modern health care services in the entire NorthEast region of India
It is now well on its way for becoming a super specialty medical institution by way of massive upgradation of its infrastructure with financial assistance from different Govt and NonGovt organizations