Osmania Medical College

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Osmania Medical College is a premier medical college in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is one of the oldest medical schools in the world^{[citation needed]}. In 2003 and 2005, Osmania Medical College was ranked among the top ten medical colleges in India by India Today magazine^{[citation needed]}.

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Osmania Medical college has long been the premier institution in South India. It is the oldest medical school in India and perhaps Asia. The concept of Osmania Medical College dates back to 1595 AD, then called as Dar-Ul-Shifa in Hyderabad, making it the oldest medical school.

Osmania has a rich history of pioneering medical innovations. For the first time in the world, chloroform was used as an anesthetic in Osmania. It is said that Queen Victoria gave birth to a child using chloroform anesthesia.

Malaria was a dreadful disease, with an unknown cause for many decades. It was thought to be caused by bad air and was termed as malaria (mala=bad, ara=air). It was Sir Ronald Ross researching in Secunderabad, who established the aetiology and disease cycle of malaria, when he demonstrated the oocysts of malaria parasite, Plasmodium on the stomach wall of female anopheles mosquito. This conclusively proved female anopheles mosquito as the vector for malaria. Malaria still causes the largest number of human deaths by a parasitic disease in the world. Sir Ronald Ross has been immortalised by the Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Tropical and Communicable Diseases (popular by name Fever Hospital), of Osmania.

The medium of instruction was initially Urdu (the degree was Hakeem) and later changed to English. In 1846, Hyderabad Medical School was established. An article about the 150 years (1846-1996)of Osmania Medical College was published in Bulletin of The Indian Institute of History of Medicine, and featured in Pubmed. It recently celebrated Platinum Jubilee. [1].

Osmania is the only medical college in India (perhaps the world), where each medical speciality has a separate own hospital. It is the only medical college in south India to offer postgraduate courses in endocrinology. It has been consistently ranked in the top ten medical colleges of India.[2]

The following hospitals fulfill the role of teaching hospitals for Osmania medical College.

1.Osmania General Hospital - a multispeciality quaternary care hospital with advanced training in every sub-speciality of Medicine, Surgery, Radiology, Anesthesiology, Orthopedic surgery, Neurosurgery, Neurology. This hospital has approximately 3800 beds, with patients overfilling the beds and wards. It has one of the busiest Out-Patient clinics in all specialities in India, particularly on Monday mornings.

2.Government Maternity Hospital, Sultan Bazaar Hospital - a tertiary care hospital for Obstetrics and Gynecology.

3.Niloufer Hospital - a quaternary care hospital for Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Neonatology, maternal-fetal Medicine. It is one of the largest Hospitals of its kind in Asia, with advanced training in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Pediatrics.

4.Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Tropical and Communicable Diseases - the institute where Dr.Ross elucidated the life cycle of malarial parasite (he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for this work)

5.Government Maternity Hospital, Nayapul - a tertiary care Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital

6.Mehdi Nawaz Jung Institute of Oncology.

7.Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital - quaternary care ophthalmological institute with advanced training in Ophthalmology

8.Government ENT Hospital - quaternary care hospital for ENT disorders

9.The Institute of Mental Health, Errgadda

10.Government Chest Hospital - a quaternary care hospital for all kinds of lung disorders, especially tuberculosis and Pott's Disease of the spine.

11. Rural Health Centre, Patancheru - Osmania is one of the only two medical colleges in India with a rural health centre attached to it.

12. Outreach hospitals surrounding Hyderabad.

Osmania Medical College's predecessor, Hyderabad Medical School, was founded in 1846.

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