K.S .Hegde Medical Academy, Mangalore, Karnataka

NITTE Education Trust's K S HEGDE MEDICAL ACADEMY: was established in 1999 by the Nitte Education Trust (NET). The institute is named after the visionary and founder, late Justice K S Hegde, former Justice of the Supreme Court and former Speaker of the Lok Sabha.

The institution is affiliated to the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore and is recognised by the Medical Council of India. A 600 bed teaching hospital - Justice K S Hegde Charitable Hospital with modern diagnostic facilities and super-specialities in Neurology, Neuro-Surgery, Paediatric Surgery, Nephrology and Urology, is attached to the medical college.

Mission: "To develop Nitte Education Trust as a centre of excellence, imparting quality education, generating competent, skilled and humane manpower to face the scientific, technological, managerial and social challenges in the fast-evolving global scenario, with high degree of credibility, integrity, ethical standards and social concern."

The institute is situated on a 45 acre campus at Mangalore which is an important sea port on the West coast of Karnataka. It is the district headquarters and is well connected to the neighbouring states by an efficient network of road, rail and air transport.

About Nitte Education Trust

Education is not preparation for life, education is life itself – John Dewey. This adage is perhaps best reflected in what the late Justice K S Hegde, a committed philanthropist and legal luminary strongly believed in – that education is vital for the overall progress of a community…and it is this vision that saw the birth of the Nitte Education Trust.

In 1979, seven committed persons, all sharing the same concern to the cause of education and community development, under the leadership and guidance of Justice K S Hegde formed an association. Justice Hegde, conceived the idea of a trust, which would provide basic education, health care and train manpower. Thus, was born the Nitte Education Trust. It was formally baptised on August 30, 1979.

Justice K S Hegde, the founder was the prime mover of the Trust.

With emphasis being laid on education, the Trust established a high school at Nitte in 1979. Today, the Nitte Education Trust comprises a medical, dental and 5 paramedical colleges, a 720 bed speciality hospital, 2 engineering colleges, 2 MBA institutes, 2 MCA institutes, a college of hotel management, 2 technical training institutes, 2 first grade colleges, 2 pre-university colleges, 5 schools and a 3-star hotel – in all 23 institutions with 10,000 students, 3,500 staff and 18,500 alumni.

Recognised as one of the finest educational institutions in Karnataka attracting students from all over India and abroad, the Trust has a Medical Sciences Complex at Deralakatte, Mangalore and 2 well developed campuses at Nitte and Bangalore. All the institutions maintained by the Trust have excellent infrastructural facilities like spacious classrooms, laboratories, libraries, faculty etc. The campuses have professionally and aesthetically designed buildings, surrounded by gardens making it highly conducive for learning. Each is a self-contained campus with separate hostels for men and women with staff wardens, 24 hr telephone and Internet facilities, co-operative stores, a post office and a bank. The system of teacher guardianship wherein a group of 5 students are assigned a teacher is a unique feature of our institutions. This system helps a teacher attend to each student especially those who are weak academically. Professional campus counsellors interact with students having personal, disciplinary or emotional problems.
All the students of our institutions are covered by the Medicare scheme, which entitles them to free medical and dental care and treatment at the Justice K S Hegde Charitable Hospital.

The students are also encouraged to actively participate in our community development projects as the Trust not only believes that students become powerful by knowledge, but also that they become responsible citizens if they have an understanding of human conditions. It is the desire of the NET institutions to prepare and present to the society, young men and women, who have speculative knowledge (Jnana) and actual experience of the perfection (Vijana).

COURSES OFFERED

• Graduate program (M.B.B.S)

POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMES:

1. Anaesthesiology & Critical Care
2. Anatomy
3. Bio-Chemistry
4. Cardiology & Cardio Thoracic Surgery
5. Community Medicine
6. Dermatology
7. E.N.T
8. Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
9. General Medicine
10. General Surgery
11. Medical Oncology
12. Microbiology
13. Nephrology
14. Neurosciences
15. Obstetrics & Gynaecology
16. Ophthalmology
17. Orthopaedics
18. Paediatrics
19. Paediatric Surgery
20. Pathology
21. Pharmacology
22. Physiology
23. Psychiatry
24. Radiodiagnosis & Imaging
25. Urology