S N (Sarojini Naidu) Medical College, Agra, Uttar Pradesh

S.N. Medical College, Agra, named after the first lady Governess of Uttar Pradesh, poetess and freedom fighter, Bharat Kokila Smt. Sarojini Naidu, is situated in the heart of Agra, the famous old city of the Taj Mahal. It is one of the first three Medical Schools of the country.

For Agra Medical School, the year 1939 was a year of achievement. With a view to meet the growing demand for qualified doctors in the then United Provinces, the status of Agra Medical School was upgraded to that of a full fledged Medical College affiliated to the Agra University for the award of M.B.B.S. degree.

Today, this college has completed over 60 years of its useful existence dedicated to the cause of Medical Education and Research and in the service of suffering humanity the college motto being ‘LIVE TO SERVE’.

This college, soon after its inception, was recognized by the Medical Council of India and the General Medical Council of Great Britain. The first of M.B.B.S. doctors passed out in the year 1944. The hospital attached to the Agra Medical School since 1854 was known as the Thompson Hospital. With the elevation of Agra Medical School to S. N. Medical College, the Thompson Hospital was also rechristened as S.N. Hospital.

AROJINI NAIDU-The Nightingale of India

Sarojini Naidu, the eldest daughter of scientist-philosopher, Aghornath Chattopadhyaya, and Barada Sundari Devi, a poetess was born on 13 February 1879 in Hyderabad. her father was also a linguist, a crusader, who established the Nizam's College in Hyderabad in 1878, pioneering English and women's education. she studied at the King's College, London and Girton College, Cambridge. Her ability to sing charmingly fetched her title 'Nightingale of India'.
She began her political career in 1906. After 1917 she stepped into active politics. During 1903-17 sarojini came into contact with Gokhale, Tagore, Jinnah, Annie Besant, C.P.Rama Swami Iyea, Gandhi and Nehru. From 1915 to 1918 she lectured all over India on welfare of youth, dignity of labour, women's emancipation and nationalism. After meeting Jawaharlal Nehru in 1916, she took up the cause of the indigo worker of Champaran. In 1925 she was elected as the President of the congress.

Sarojini Naidu actively campaigned for the Montagu-Chelmsford Refroms, the Khilafat isue, the Rowlatt Act, the sabarmati Pact, the Satyagraha Pledge and the Civi Disobedience ovement. She was the first woman Governor of U.P. Her Presedentship of the asian Relations conference in 1947 was remarkable.
Sarojini Naidu also led an active literary life and attracted Indian intellectuals to her salon in Mumbai. Her first volume of poetry. "The Golden Threshold"(1905) was followed by the "Bird of time"(1912) and in 1914 she was elected a fellow of the royal Society of Literature. Her collected poems, all of which she wrote in English have been published under the title "The Secptraed Flute" (1928) and the "Feather of the Dawn"(1961). At the age of seventy on 02 March 1949 she died in office at Lucknow.

COURSES OFFERED:
MBBS

POST GRADUATE COURSES PROVIDED IN S N MEDICAL COLLEGE:
MS - Human Anatomy
MS - Obstetrics Gynecology
MS - Ophthalmology
MS - Surgery
MS - ENT
MD - Forensic Medicine
MD - Pharmacology
MD - Human Physiology
MD - Microbiology
MD - Pathology
MD - SPM
MD - Anesthesiology
MD - Skin & VD
MD - Medicine
MD - TB & chest diseases
MD - Pediatrics
MD - Psychiatry
MD - Radio therapy
MD - Radio diagnosis
Diploma - Pharmacy
Diploma - Anesthesiology
DVD
DOMS
DGO
DLO
DMRD
DCH
Diploma in Psychiatry
Diploma in TB & chest diseases