Rajiv Gandhi Medical College, Kalwa, Thane

Rajiv Gandhi Medical College and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital, established in 1992, is located in Kalwa, Thane, Maharashtra, India. Run by the Thane Municipal Corporation, the hospital is ranked sixth in Maharashtra and first in Thane and the Mumbai suburban area. The college offers 100 seats for the MBBS undergraduate course, increased from 80 since 2022, making it the lowest number of seats among government medical colleges in the state. The attached CSM hospital has over 500 beds and numerous specialty departments, including Anaesthesiology, Anatomy, Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Psychiatry, among others. The college also offers postgraduate diploma courses through the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Mumbai in fields such as Chest medicine & TB, Dermatology & Venereology, and Ophthalmology. Since 2020, it has been affiliated for DNB courses in Pediatrics, Orthopaedics, Medicine, and Surgery. The Dean of the institution is Dr Rakesh Barot. The hospital primarily serves patients from poorer areas such as Bhandup, Diva, Kalwa, Kanjurmarg, Mulund, Mumbra, Nahur, Thane, and Vikhroli. Extracurricular activities include cultural festivals like Abhiyaan and Abhivyakti, along with events such as Medi-Exhibit, RGMC Marathon, and the Zenith medical conference, which became a national-level event in 2018.