Armed Forces Medical College

The Armed Forces Medical College at Pune is one the best medical institutes in the country and ranked as a foremost national educational centres. The Army Medical Training Centre, the Army School of Hygiene, the Central Military Pathology, the School of Blood Transfusion and the Army School of Radiology came together to form the Armed Forces Medical College at Pune on 1st May in the year 1948.

The college moved to the Connaught Barracks from the Eve’s Estate where it initially operated from. To begin with, the Armed Forces Medical College was a postgraduate training and research centre under the leadership of Col PP Chowdhury. However, with the addition of the Department of Dental Surgery in the year 1955, the position and the responsibilities of the college expanded.

On the 4th of August 1962, the graduate wing was added to the campus and the undergraduate wing was added soon after, following which the College of Nursing was added in the year 1964.

In the year 1998, the Armed Forces Medical College celebrated its fifty years and thus a Golden Jubilee wing which was inaugurated by the then Defence Minister of the country MrGeorge Fernandes was added to the campus. This Golden Jubilee Wing houses eighteen different departments.

The artistically done main building of thecollege has a Bhardwaja auditorium which bustles with academic activity.
Facilities:

Main Library:

Over 1500 students and faculty members of AFMC and other medical establishments in the Pune complex benefit from the Main Library of the Armed Forces Medical College. The library has over 15,000 books and 20,000 bound journals, 275 journals and an indexing and abstracting service covering over 3000 international journals which is also available on CD-ROM.

Graduate Wing Library:

With more than a thousand books and journals of the graduate level, which are constantly in use, the library at the graduate wing of the college functions until a little after midnight and has ample seating capacity.

HostelFacilities:

There is also accommodating facility for male students in the four new hostel blocks. 272 rooms have been added to these hostel buildings. Interestingly, there is separate accommodating for the students who are married and those who are single.
The various departments of the college havebeen divided into four main sections:

Section I

Departments:
Anaesthesiology
Anatomy
Biochemistry
College of Nursing
Dental Surgery
Dermatology and Venerology

Section II

Departments:
Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
Geriatrics
Hospital Administration
Internal Medicine
Microbiology
Ophthalmology

Section III

Departments:
Otorhinolaryngology
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Orthopaedics
Pathology
Paediatrics
Pharmacology

Section IV

Departments:
Physiology
Physical Medicine and Rehab
Preventive and Social Medicine
Psychiatry
Radiodiagnosis
Surgery
Transfusion Medicine