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{{short description|Government medical school in Goa, India}}
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{{Infobox college
| name = Goa Medical College
| native_name = ''Colégio Médico de Goa''
| image_name = Goa Medical College Logo.png
| image_size = 162px
| image_alt = Image of Caduceus with background of a beach
| caption = Seal of Goa Medical College
| latin_name =
| motto =
| mottoeng = Truth is Eternal and Beautiful
| established = 1691
| type = Health Services, [[Medical Education]] and Research Institution
| parent = [[Goa University]]
| dean = S. M. Bandekar<ref>{{Cite web| title = Goa Medical College, Panaji at Medical Council of India Website| work = View details of college – Goa Medical College, Panaji| accessdate = 25 June 2011| url = http://www.mciindia.org/View_College_Details.aspx?ID=41| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110928134301/http://www.mciindia.org/View_College_Details.aspx?ID=41#| archive-date = 28 September 2011| url-status = dead| df = dmy-all}}</ref>
| administrative_staff = 2048<ref>{{Cite web|title=Goa Medical College |work=Goa Medical College- Staff Details |accessdate=25 June 2011 |url=http://www.gmc.goa.gov.in/staffdetails.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425070325/http://www.gmc.goa.gov.in/staffdetails.html |archivedate=25 April 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref>
| postgrad = 31 (MD students)<br /> 13 (MS students)<br /> 30 (Diploma students)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Goa Medical College |work=Goa Medical College- Admissions for the Post Graduate seats |accessdate=25 June 2011 |url=http://www.gmc.goa.gov.in/pgdiplomadegreeseats.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425070822/http://www.gmc.goa.gov.in/pgdiplomadegreeseats.html |archivedate=25 April 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref>
| undergrad = 180
| other_names = GMC
| city = [[Bambolim]]
| state = [[Goa]]
| country = India
| campus = Urban {{formatnum:1134798}} m<sup>2</sup><ref>{{Cite web|title=Goa Medical College |work=Goa Medical College- Particulars of the Organization, Function and Duties |accessdate=25 June 2011 |url=http://www.gmc.goa.gov.in/manual1.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425070839/http://www.gmc.goa.gov.in/manual1.html |archivedate=25 April 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref>
| website = {{URL|http://www.gmc.goa.gov.in/}}, {{URL|http://www.gmcmec.gov.in/}}
}}
'''Goa Medical College (GMC)''' is a [[public University|public]] [[medical school|medical college]] and hospital located in [[Goa]], India. It is one of the oldest medical colleges in Asia. The medical college is affiliated to the [[Goa University]] (GU), being its oldest unit.

== History ==
[[File:GMC building in Goa, India.tif|thumb|GMC building in Goa.]]
Since the last decades of the sixteenth century Goa was known as the "cemetery of the Portuguese", in the expression of the Viceroy [[Francisco de Távora]], 1st Count of Alvor. The unhealthiness of the [[Old Goa]] was manifest, given the density of the population, which was accompanied by a lack of hygiene and medical care. Until then, doctors in [[Portuguese India]] were rare.

The course of medical education in Goa, therefore, began in 1691,<ref name="Proa">Prôa, Miguel Pires. "Escolas Superiores" Portuguesas Antes de 1950 (esboço). Blog Gavetas Com Saber. 2008</ref> when the "chief physicist" (a name given to doctors appointed as head of public health of a given territory) Manoel Roiz de Sousa began a "Medicine Class of Nova Goa", coming from the request made by the [[List of governors of Portuguese India|Vice-King of India]] Rodrigo da Costa,<ref>Digby, Anne; Ernst, Waltraud. Crossing Colonial Historiographies: Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Medicines In Transnational Perspective. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2010</ref> functioning intermittently in the eighteenth century.<ref name="Proa"/> In 1801, the Portuguese crown decided to establish the "Medicine and Surgery Class", to the care of the chief physicist António José de Miranda e Almeida, graduated from [[University of Coimbra|Coimbra]]. This course worked until 1815, when the doctor left Goa.<ref>Bastos, Cristiana.[https://lerhistoria.revues.org/1157 Hospitais e sociedade colonial: Esplendor, ruína, memória e mudança em Goa] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824052150/https://lerhistoria.revues.org/1157# |date=24 August 2017 }}. Revista Ler História, 2010</ref><ref>Rodrigues, Eugénia. [http://www.ics.ul.pt/rdonweb-docs/medicina%20imperio%20goa.pdf Moçambique e o Índico: a circulação de saberes e práticas de cura]. Universidade de Lisboa, 2012</ref>

However, it was only on 5 November 1842 when the "Medical-Surgical School of Goa" got its definitive start. The institution remained in operation even after 11 December 1851,<ref>Taimo, Jamisse Uilson. [https://www.unimep.br/phpg/bibdig/pdfs/2006/USQUKAQXVOQD.pdf Ensino Superior em Moçambique: História, Política e Gestão] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030094804/https://www.unimep.br/phpg/bibdig/pdfs/2006/USQUKAQXVOQD.pdf# |date=30 October 2012 }}. Piracicaba: Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba, 2010</ref> when, through a ministerial report and annexed decree, the colonial government extinguished some medical schools surviving only that of Goa.<ref name="ReoCities Athens">[http://reocities.com/Athens/troy/4285/ensino06.html Os Portugueses no Congo: Lição 6 - Cultura, educação e ensino em Angola] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140604102332/http://reocities.com/Athens/troy/4285/ensino06.html# |date=4 June 2014 }}. ReoCities Athens - 28 de abril de 2016</ref> During that period, it produced some 1,327 doctors and 469 pharmacists.<ref name="WagleCoehlo19952">{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=1ixuAAAAMAAJ |title= Goa: Continuity and Change |publisher= University of Toronto, Centre for South Asian Studies |year=1995 |isbn=978-1-895214-12-3 |page=33 |author1= Narendra K. Wagle |author2= George Coehlo |accessdate= 6 April 2013}}</ref><ref name="The Hindu Weekly Review2">{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=2q05AQAAIAAJ |title= The Hindu Weekly Review |date=Jan 1968 |publisher=K. Gopalan |page=19 |accessdate= 6 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.gmcmec.gov.in/index.html |title= Home |publisher= GOA MEDICAL COLLEGE |accessdate= 7 May 2017 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20170503010153/http://www.gmcmec.gov.in/index.html# |archivedate= 3 May 2017 |url-status= live }}</ref>

During the military [[annexation of Goa]], undertaken by India in 1961, the school was administered by the [[University of Bombay]]. In 1986, it came under the administration of the [[Goa University]] (GU), changing the denomination "Medical-Surgical School" to "Medical College".

Originally located in the center of [[Panjim]], in a structure of Portuguese origin, it was transferred to [[Bambolim]] in 1993, being part of the medical-hospital teaching complex of GU.

== Organization ==
The [[Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour]] (Bambolim), the T.B. Cunha and Chest disease hospital (St. Inez), the Rural Health and Training Centre (Mandur-Old Goa) and the Urban Health Centre (St. Cruz) form parts of the Establishment. The college is affiliated to the Goa University and offers the MBBS course alongside several MS and MD courses. Some courses with some super-specializations are also awarded.

Goa Medical College (GMC) and [[Goa Dental College]] are located opposite each other on the highway connecting Goa's capital Panjim with its commercial capital, [[Margao]]. A pedestrian subway has been constructed to connect both institutes.

As a part of their compulsory rotational intership in the department of preventive and social medicine, the MBBS interns are also posted in the Sankhle Community Health Centre for 15 days along with the Junior Residents of the same department.

The current acting Dean of Goa Medical College is Dr. S. M. Banderkar, an orthopedic surgeon.[[File:GMC building.jpg|thumb|The former building is now used as the offices for the Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG).]]

==Admissions==
180 MBBS and 60 paramedical seats filled through NEET UG. It has an intake of 86 seats for PG courses in which 50% is by All India Quota.

==Courses==
Goa Medical College offers following courses:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mciindia.org/InformationDesk/ForStudents/ListofCollegesTeachingMBBS.aspx |title=List of Colleges Teaching MBBS |accessdate=2012-05-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607111811/http://www.mciindia.org/InformationDesk/ForStudents/ListofCollegesTeachingMBBS.aspx |archivedate=7 June 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>http://www.gmc.goa.gov.in/images/Site_Images/PDF/GMC_MCI_website_2014_28_03_2014.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>

===UG Course===
[[Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery|M.B.B.S.]] - extending for at least a period of 4.5 years followed by 1 year of compulsory rotational internship.

===PG Courses===
====M.D.====
*Anesthesiology
*Biochemistry
*Dermatology
*Diagnostic radiology
*Forensic Medicine
*General Medicine
*Microbiology
*Obstetrics & Gynecology
*Pediatrics
*Pathology
*Pharmacology
* Physiology
* Psychiatry
* Preventive & Social Medicine
*Pulmonary Medicine
*radio diagnosis

====M.S.====
* Anatomy
*
* Ophthalmology
* Otolaryngology

====P. G. Diploma Courses====
* Anesthesia
* Diagnostic radiology
* Obstetrics & Gynecology
* Pediatrics
* Psychological Medicine
* Public Health
* Forensic Medicine (Not yet recognized by MCI)
* Dermatology & VD (Not yet recognized by MCI)

==Notable alumni==
*[[Froilano de Mello|Dr. Froilano de Mello]]
*[[Francisco Luís Gomes|Dr. Francisco Luís Gomes]]
*[[Agostinho Fernandes]] (1932-2015), Goan novelist

==See also==

* [[Goa University]]
* [[Goa Engineering College]]

==References==
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==External links==
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*[https://imed.faimer.org/details.asp?country=495&school=Goa+Medical+College&currpage=1&cname=INDIA&city=&region=AS&rname=Asia&mcode=495810&psize=25 College Information in FAIMER Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20130704012824/https://imed.faimer.org/details.asp?country=495&school=Goa+Medical+College&currpage=1&cname=INDIA&city=&region=AS&rname=Asia&mcode=495810&psize=25 |date=4 July 2013 }}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101109170257/http://avicennadb.ku.dk/avicenna/viewSchool.php?school=M00635&type College Information in AVICENNA Directories]
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=uqQwIHpqpfgC&pg=PA158 College Information in World Directory of Medical Schools]

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[[Category:Universities and colleges in Goa]]
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Ajay Kumar at 16:46, 28 August 2023