King George's Medical College (1905–2002) Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University (2002–2003; 2007–2012) U.P. King George's University of Dental Sciences (2003–2007)
King George's Medical University is a medical school, hospital, and medical university located in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. The medical school was raised to a medical university by an act passed by the government of Uttar Pradesh on 16 September 2002. It is the only government medical institution to have been awarded the NAAC A+ grade in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
The university has about 1250 undergraduate students (including 280 dental students) and 450 postgraduate students.[3]
About 250 students a year are admitted to the four-and-a-half-year course of study for the degree of M.B.B.S.[4]
In 2002 the Government of Uttar Pradesh, led by Mayawati of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), granted university status the college and renamed it Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University (CSMMU), under the Uttar Pradesh Chhatrapati Shahuji Medical University Act, 2002.[6] In August 2003 Mulayam Singh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party (SP) replaced Mayawati and became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Two months later, in October 2003, the name of the university was changed to King George's Medical University (KGMU)[5] by the Uttar Pradesh Chhartrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University (Second Amendment) Act, 2003.[7]
Name-changing continued. In 2007, after the BSP won the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election and Mayawati returned to office, the name of the institution reverted to CSMMU. When control returned to the SP in the 2012 election, Akhilesh Yadav's government returned the name of the university the current "King George Medical University".[8]
Similar changes occurred for the dental faculty. The faculty was established in 1949 as a section of the ENT department;[9] raised to a separate department in 1950, it moved to a new building in 1952.[5] When the university was established in 2002, the dental department became the Dental College, a constituent college of the university.[9] Two years later, under the Uttar Pradesh King George's University of Dental Science Act, 2004, the Dental College was raised to the status of a state university[10] named the "U.P. King George’s University of Dental Science".[11] In 2007, the government reverted this decision and the U.P. King George's University of Dental Science again became simply a Faculty of Dental Sciences, as it was at the establishment of the university.[9]
After getting university status, it also worked as an affiliating university till academic year 2021-2022 when colleges affiliated to the university were taken over by newly established Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical University.
Faculties and institutes
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Faculty of Dental Sciences
Institute of Paramedical Sciences
Institute of Nursing
Undergraduate courses
The college offers the four-and-a-half-year M.B.B.S. course with a one-year compulsory rotating internship. There are 250 seats for MBBS and 51 seats for BDS, which are filled through NEET. B.Sc (Nursing) 120 seats which are filled through Cnet exam.[12][13]
Postgraduate and doctoral courses
There are more than 28 PG courses and 13 Doctoral courses in KGMU.[citation needed] Thus almost all the branches of medicine and dental have a training program at KGMU.[citation needed] Diploma and PG diploma courses are also available in the institute.M.Sc (Nursing) 25 seats which are filled through Cnet exam
The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) has ranked the university 50 among universities in India in 2022,[17] 11th among medical colleges,[18] 5th among dental colleges [20] and 75 overall.[16] It was ranked fourth among government medical colleges in India in 2022 by Outlook India.[19]
Notable people
The University has a long list of its prestigious alumni who have earned name and fame throughout the country as well as in abroad. As of now, the University has given 1 Padma Vibhushan, 6 Padma Bhushan, 29 Padma Shri and 45 BC Roy awardees to the nation.
