Andhra Medical College

Andhra Medical College is in Andhra Pradesh, India, and affiliated to NTR University of Health Sciences. It is the oldest medical colleges in Andhra Pradesh, and the sixth oldest in India. It is recognized by the Medical Council of India.[1]Dr. P. Shyam Prasad is the present vice chancellor.

Andhra Medical College

Motto	Ne Quid Nimis (Let there be nothing in Excess)
Type	Government Institution
Established	19 July 1923
Principal	Dr. P. V. Sudhakar
Undergraduates	250 per year (MBBS)
Postgraduates	212 per year + Super Specialty seats 23 per year doctoral =
Address	Maharanipeta, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	NTRUHS

Emblem

Andhra Medical College emblem was designed by Dr. F. J. Anderson, the first principal.

Principals

S.No	Name	Specialization	From	To
1.	Lt. Col. F.J. Anderson	Professor of Surgery	1923
2.	Lt. Col. F.C. Frazer	Professor of Surgery	1927	1928
3.	Dr. T. S. Tirumurti	Professor of Pathology	1930	1930
4.	Major J. W. Ebden	Professor of Surgery	1933	1933
5.	Major F.M.Collins	Professor of Surgery	1937	1938
6.	Major J.F. Shepherd	Professor of Surgery	1939	1941
7.	Major F.A.B. Shepherd	Professor of Surgery	1941	1945
8.	Dr. T. Bhaskara Menon	Professor of Pathology	1945	1948
9.	Dr. N. G. Pandalai	Professor of Bacteriology	1948	1951
10.	Dr. M. V. Ramana Murthy	Professor of Surgery	1951	1951
11.	Dr. T. K. Raman	Professor of Medicine	1951	1953
12.	Dr. M. D. Anantachari	Professor of Medicine	1953	1954
13.	Dr. D. Govinda Reddy	Professor of Pathology	1954	1956
14.	Dr. S. Venkateswarlu	Professor of Radiology	1956	1956
15.	Dr. G. V. Satyanarayana Murty	Professor of Medicine	1956	1959
16.	Dr. K. Ramesh Pai	Professor of Surgery	1960	1960
17.	Dr. P. Narasimha Rao	Professor of ENT	1960	1964
18.	Dr. V. S. Raghunathan	Professor of Medicine	1964	1966
19.	Dr. P. Brahmayya Sastry	Professor of Physiology	1964	1966
20.	Dr. M. Y. Ansari	Professor of Pharmacology	1965	1966
21.	Dr. D. Raghavendra Rao	Professor of Thoracic Surgery	1969	1971
22.	Dr. R. Satyabhama Reddy	Professor of Gynecology	1969	1974
23.	Dr. B. Shanmukheswara Rao	Professor of Surgery	1971	1973
24.	Dr. L. Suryanarayana	Professor of Surgery	1974	1975
25.	Dr. K. Kameswari Devi	Professor of Gynecology	1975	1976
26.	Dr. K. Sanjeeva Rao	Professor of Anatomy	1976	1981
27.	Dr. C. Sita Devi	Professor of Biochemistry	1981	1984
28.	Dr. E. N. B. Sharma	Professor of Surgery	1985	1986
29.	Dr. V. S. Dhanraj	Professor of Anesthesia	1986	1987
30.	Dr. K. Veerebadhiah	Professor of Surgery	1986	1987
31.	Dr. G. Nirmala	Professor of Pharmacology	1986	1998
32.	Dr. C. Syamala	Professor of Paediatrics	1992	1995
33.	Dr. V. Pranava Murty	Professor of Medicine	1994	2001
34.	Dr. P. A. Jayakar	Professor of Bacteriology	1995	1996
35.	Dr. R. Venkata Ramana	Professor of Surgery	1996	1997
36.	Dr. K. Surya Rao	Professor of Medicine	1997	1997
37.	Dr. R. Ahikrishna	Professor of Ophthalmology	1998	1999
38.	Dr. K. Akkalanaidu	Professor of ENT	1999	1999
39.	Dr. A. Prakasa Rao	Professor of ENT	1999	2000
40.	Dr. K. Venugopala Rao	Professor of Pediatric Surgery	2000	2001
41.	Dr. Sasiprabha	Professor of Gynecology	2001	2002
42.	Dr. K. Raghavaprasad	Professor of SPM	2002	2003
43.	Dr. Ch. Gnaneswar	Professor of Medicine	2002	2003
44.	Dr. Ronanki Narayana Rao	Professor of Medicine	2003	2006
45.	Dr. C. V. Rao	Professor of Plastic Surgery	2006	2008
46.	Dr. G. Bhagya Rao	Professor of Psychiatry	2008	2011
47.	Dr. Vishnu Prasad	Professor of Neurosurgery	2011	2011
48.	Dr. Santha Rao	Professor of Surgery	2012	2012
49.	Dr. Kalpana Subrahmanyam (MD)	Professor of Biochemistry	2012	2013
50.	Dr. S. V. Kumar	Professor of Surgery	2013	2016
51.	Dr T. Radha	Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology	2016	2017
52.	Dr. P. V. Sudhakar	Professor of Plastic Surgery	2017	Till date

Departments

1. Department of Anaesthesiology
2. Department of Anatomy: established in 1923. The first Professor was Capt. F. J. Anderson. It has a Museum. There are two artificial human skeletons donated by Dr. R. Krishna Rao. Dr. S. Swaminathan Prize and Dr. Anderson Medal are awarded to meritorious students annually.
3. Department of Biochemistry: started in 1925 as part of the Physiology department. Dr. V. K. Narayana Menon was the first professor. Rao Bahadur Dr. V. K. Narayana Menon Medal, Dr. Venkateswarulu Prize, Dr. M. V. V. Krishna Mohan Memorial Prize and Dr C. Sita Devi University Medal awarded annually to meritorious students.
4. Department of Cardiology: started in 1971 as a 25-bedded ward with Intensive Care Unit. As a result of public contributions and Costal Andhra Heart Foundation, a separate building was constructed exclusively for the Department of Cardiology in 1981. The Department was upgraded to 36-beds and 18-bedded Intensive Cardiac Care Unit. An Intermediate Coronary Care Unit was opened in the year 2001.
5. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery: started in 1956 with Dr. B. Sundara Rama Murthy as the first professor. An open heart surgery Unit was recently inaugurated on the second floor of the Cardiology Block with financial assistance from the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant and the Coastal Heart Foundation.
6. Department of Dental Surgery
7. Department of Dermatology
8. Department of Endocrinology
9. Department of Forensic Medicine
10. Department of Gastroenterology
11. Department of General Surgery
12. Department of Medicine: set up at the King George Hospital and upgraded in 1923. The acute medical care unit runs 24 hours. Dr. W. C. Gray was the first professor and head. Jeypore Sri Vikram Deo Varma Medal, Vemuri Sivaji Rao Medal and Dr. P. Kutumbaiah prizes are awarded annually.
13. Department of Microbiology
14. Department of Nephrology: established by T. Ravi Raju, who has been instrumental in developing the Kidney transplantation facility in the hospital.[2]
15. Department of Neurology
16. Department of Neurosurgery: started in 1956. It is the first neurosurgical unit of the united Andhra Pradesh.[3] Dr. S. Balaparameswara Rao was its first professor and head of the department. An exclusive unit of 'Head Injury and Intensive Care' was started in 1991. Superspeciality course (M.Ch.) was started in 1986.
17. Department of Nuclear Medicine
18. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
19. Department of Ophthalmology
20. Department of Orthopaedics: set up in 1964 with Dr. C. Vyaghreswarudu as the head of department. An artificial limb center was set up in 1983.
21. Department of Otorhinolaryngology
22. Department of Paediatric Surgery
23. Department of Paediatrics
24. Department of Pathology: started in 1923. Dr. T. S. Tirumurti was its first professor. Postgraduate courses were started in 1946. It was upgraded in 1953. The Cytology wing was started in 1996. Dr. T. Bhaskara Menon Memorial prize and Dr. Tatachari medal is annually awarded to meritorious students.
25. Department of Pharmacology
26. Department of Physiology
27. Department of Plastic Surgery
28. Department of Psychiatry
29. Department of Radiology
30. Department of Radiotherapy
31. Department of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
32. Department of Community Medicine: The Department of Hygiene and Bacteriology was established in 1925. Dr. C. Rama Murty was its first professor. It was renamed as Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in 1955 and now called Department of Community Medicine. The Department gives out Silver Jubilee Celebration Committee Prize and Endowment Medal, Dr. Sonti Dakshinamurthy Prize and Dr. Vallabha Sastry Prize every year.
33. Department of Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases
34. Department of Urology

Library

Andhra Medical College Central library was established in 1930. By 1987, the library had a collection of 32,000 books and 107 journals.

Recently an independent library building complex was constructed in front of the Panagal building (main building/office) and near the house surgeons and postgraduates men's hostel.

Teaching hospitals

These Teaching Hospitals are attached with the Andhra Medical College:

Main building of KGH.

• King George Hospital
• Government Victoria Hospital
• Government Hospital For Mental Care
• Rani Chandramani Devi Government Hospital
• Government Hospital for Chest and Communicable Diseases
• Government Regional Eye Hospital
• The ENT Hospital

Hostels

The Andhra Medical College provides separate hostels for men, women, house-surgeons and postgraduates.

• AMC Women's Hostel was built in 1942. The hostel has a capacity of accommodating 175 students and has a play ground, reading rooms, recreational centre and library.
• AMC Men's Hostel is in an area of 18 acres (73,000 m²). It was built during the year 1952 with a total of 262 rooms. The hostel has a dining hall, reading room, TV room and recreational centre for indoor games.
• Hostel for House-surgeons and Postgraduates was built in 1965.

The wings of AMC

• The Institutional Ethics Committee
• The AMC Research Forum
• The Medical Education Cell
• Rasamayi
• Prakriti
• AURA (AMC Undergraduate Research Association) is a recently established research forum for encouraging the undergraduate students to do research in the field of their choice.

Dr R Rednam Surya Prasada Rao professor of ophthalmology who trained many ophthalmologist is considered teacher per excellence As an honor Government Regional Eye Hospital was named after him.

Dr M Suryanarayana Murthy professor of Ophthalmology was considered as one of the greatest teachers which Andhra Medical College ever produced. His encyclopedic knowledge use to enthrall the students. He was called the "Walking Duke Elder" ho wrote 16 volumes on eye called the system of Ophthalmology.

AMCOSA

Andhra Medical College Old Student's Association (AMCOSA) was formed by the efforts of Prof. P. Brahmayya Sastry and Dr. C. Vyaghreswarudu. The first AMCOSA day was celebrated on 28 January 1967, which was inaugurated by Lt.Col. Dr. M. V. Ramana Murthy, who was the last Surgeon General of the combined Madras Province.

Notable people

• T. Prabhakar, Vice-Chancellor of Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences.
• Hilda Mary Lazarus, Principal of AMC and Superintendent of KGH.[4]
• M. G. Kini, Professor of Orthopedics.
• B. V. Satyanarayana (1927–2005), Professor of Dermatology.[5]
• V. Ramalingaswami (1921–2001), eminent Nutritional Scientist and recipient of Padma Bhushan.
• P. Brahmayya Sastry, Professor of Physiology.
• C. Vyaghreswarudu, Professor of Orthopaedics.[6] Dharma Rao orthopedics
• P. Kutumbaiah, Professor of Medicine.
• Kakarla Subba Rao, Professor of Radiology and Director, Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences.
• L. Suryanarayana, Professor of Surgery, Principal of AMC and Vice-Chancellor, NTR University of Health Sciences.
• P. Siva Reddy (1920–2005), Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital.
• Ponduri Venkata Ramana Rao (1917–2005), Professor of Microbiology and Director of Institute of Preventive Medicine.
• Sripada Pinakapani, General Physician, Sangeetha Kalanidhi and recipient of Padma Bhushan.
• Sonti Dakshina Murthy (1899–1975), Professor of Social and Preventive Medicine.
• A. Ranganadha Rao, the first urologist of Andhra Pradesh.
• Raman Viswanathan, Chest physician and Padma Bhushan awardee

References

1. "Vew College details". Archived from the original on 5 May 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
2. Tatapudi, Ravi Raju, ed. (2010). End Stage Renal Disease, ECAB Clinical Update. New Delhi: Elsevier. p. 1. ISBN 978-8131232019. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
3. "AMC Neurosurgery Dept. pride of AP, TS'". The Hindu. 22 October 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
4. "Eminent Vizagites of the Past". VizagCityOnline.com. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
5. "Prof. Dr. B. V. Satyanarayana (30-1-1927 – 15-8-2005) Rao G R – Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol". Ijdvl.com. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
6. "Ortho who tamed polio". The Hindu. 17 March 2003. Retrieved 18 February 2014.

External links

• Visakhapatnam Doctors
• Official website (archived 2010)