CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE (Inst. Code - 436), VELLORE Information

The Christian Medical College Vellore, located in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, is an unaided minority educational institution established in the year 1900. Started as a single-bedded clinic, under the leadership of Dr. Ida Sophia Scudder, the only daughter of second-generation American missionaries, it grew into a full-fledged medical college imparting education in medical, nursing and allied health sciences. In 2018, we celebrated the centenary of medical education - and this year, in 2020, we celebrate 120 years of CMC Vellore. Medical education began in 1918 with a Licentiate Medical Practitioner course to impart medical training to women. In 1942, the MBBS degree course was started and in 1947, the medical college became co-educational.