Basaveswara Medical College and Hospital, Chitradurga, Karnataka

The college has well designed buildings for teaching administration and hospital purposes. It has a rich logistic infrastructure to ensure best teaching and learning environment. Indoor and out door sports building is provided to keep the students and staff physically fit. Hospital is made to function as required according to the norms of MCI and RGUHS. No stone is left unturned to recruit and motivate the teaching and non teaching faculty both at college and in the hospital.

Basaveshwara Medical College Hospital: is a mammoth structure with a strength of 500 beds located at NH-4. It is not a just one in ten hospitals. It has set a self example with regard to community health and services specially for the poor and deprived. It is well equipped to provide an excellent teaching material to the students to enrich their excellence.

It is indeed amazing to observe that this modern hospital caters to poorest sections of the society without discrimination offers General Ward beds at free of cost to the needy.

COURSES OFFERED:

(a) MBBS

(b) Every student shall undergo a period of certified study extending over 4 ½ academic years from the date of commencement of his/her study for the subject comprising the medical curriculum to the date of completion of the examination followed by one year compulsory rotating Internship. The 4 ½ years course has been divided into three phases.

1.Phase – I - 1 year, consisting of 2 terms of 6 months each.
2.Phase – II - 1 ½ years, consisting of 3 terms of 6 months each.
3.Phase – III - 2 years, consisting of 4 terms

1) The first year shall be occupied in the study of the Phase-I (Pre Clinical) subject of Human Anatomy(650 hrs), Physiology including Bio Physics (480 hrs), Biochemistry (240 hrs) and Introduction to Community Medicine (60 hrs).

After passing pre-clinical subjects in Phase-I, the Phase-II shall be 3 terms (1 ½ years) devoted to Para Clinical and Clinical subjects. Para Clinical subjects shall consist of Pathology, Pharmacology, Microbiology, Forensic Medicine including Toxicology and part of Community Medicine. During this phase the clinical subjects shall be taught concurrently. The clinical subjects taught will be Medicine and its allied specialities, surgery and its allied specilities and Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Phase-III Part-I ( 2 terms ) consists of Community Medicine, ENT and Ophthalmology

Phase-III Part-II ( 2 terms) consists of Medicine and its allied specialities, Surgery and its allied specialities, Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Other Courses: B.D.S., NURSING, PHARMACY, ENGINEERING