M G M MEDICAL COLLEGE, INDORE

Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Medical College, Indore, known as MGM Medical College, is a public medical college located in Indore, India. It traces its origins to the Indore Charitable Trust started in 1848 and the Central Indian Medical School founded in 1878, later renamed King Edward Hospital & Medical School in 1911. In 1948, it was renamed MGM Medical College in honor of Mahatma Gandhi. MBBS degrees began in 1948, and MD and MS programs started in 1953. The college pioneered specialties such as Pediatrics, General Medicine, and Surgery in the 1950s and hosted the First All India Pediatrics Conference in 1955. Its teaching hospital, Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital, established in 1955, was Asia's largest government hospital at the time and remains a major tertiary care center in central India with about 3000 beds across seven associated hospitals. The college includes numerous departments covering major medical and surgical specialties. It was the first government hospital to be computerised, and its first dean was Dr. Bose. The institution celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2003, and a new 1450-bed hospital has been sanctioned for construction within the same campus.