About College Overview & History

Government Medical College Thrissur, established in 1982 is one of the leading centers in medical education in Kerala, India.  Spread over an area of more than 250 acres, it is located in the serene surroundings of Mulagunnathukavu (M.G Kavu) 14 km from Thrissur. The Kerala Uniiversity of Health Sciences (KUHS) began functioning in the campus in 2009

With the history of 25 years of meritorious medical care, the institution is celebrated Silver Jubilee in 2007. We continue to be the premier medical institution in this part of the state, delivering health care to three districts of Kerala and to patients in the neighbouring districts of Tamil Nadu. 

Vision & Mission

The undergraduate medical education program is designed with a goal to create an "Indian Medical Graduate" (IMG) possessing requisite knowledge, skills, attitudes, values and responsiveness, so that she or he may function appropriately and effectively as a physician of first contact of the community while being globally relevant. To achieve this,institutional goals for the learner of the Indian Medical Graduate training program are prescribed. In consonance with the national goals, Govt Medical College,Thrissur has institutional goals to define the kind of trained manpower (or professionals) .

The Indian Medical Graduates coming out of Govt.Medicalcollege , Thrissur are competent in diagnosis and management of common health problems of the individual  and the community, commensurate with his/her position as a member of the health team at the primary, secondary or tertiary levels, using his/her clinical skills based on history, physical examination and relevant investigations.

1. Be competent for working in the health care team from Phase 1 MBBS to Compulsory rotatory medical internship (CRMI) in a gradual manner with increasing complexity in an integrated multi-department involvement.
2. Be competent to practice preventive, promotive, curative, palliative and rehabilitativeꞏ medicine in respect to the commonly encountered health problems.
3. Appreciate rationale for different therapeutic modalities; be familiar with the administration of the "essential medicines" and their common adverse effects.
4.  Appreciate the socio-psychological, cultural, economic and environmental factors affecting health and develop humane attitude towards the patients in discharging one's professional responsibilities.
5. Possess the attitude for continued self-learning and to seek further expertise or to pursue research in any chosen area of medicine, action research and documentation skills.
6. Be familiar with the basic factors which are essential for the implementation of the National Health Programs including practical aspects of the following:

• Family Welfare and Maternal and Child Health (MCH);
•  Sanitation and water supply;
•  Prevention and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases;
•  Immunization;
•  Health Education and advocacy;
•  Indian Public Health Standards (IPHS) at various level of service delivery;
•  Bio-medical waste disposal;
• Organizational and or institutional arrangements.

7. Acquire basic management skills in the area of human resources, materials and resource management related to health care delivery, general and hospital management, principal inventory skills and counseling.
8. Be able to identify community health problems and learn to work to resolve these by designing, instituting corrective steps and evaluating outcome of such measures with maximum community participation.
9. Be able to work as a leading partner in health care teams and acquire proficiency in communication skills.
10. Be competent to work in a variety of health care settings.
11. Have personal characteristics and attitudes required for professional life including personal integrity, sense of responsibility and dependability and ability to relate to or show concern for other individuals.

 

Goals for the Learner

In order to fulfill these goals, the Indian Medical Graduate must be able to function in the following Roles appropriately and effectively:

1. Clinician who understands and provides preventive, promotive, curative, palliative and holistic care with compassion.
2. Leader and member of the health care team and system with capabilities to collect, analyze, synthesize and communicate health data appropriately.
3. Communicate with patients, families, colleagues, and community in a methodological and skillful way using various approaches in family visits, family adoption program, clinic-social cases, clinical cases and AETCOM training programs.
4. Lifelong learner committed to continuous improvement of skills and knowledge.
5. Professional, who is committed to excellence, is ethical, responsive and accountable to patients, community and profession and society. Training of humanities and social sciences will be useful for this training.
6. Critical Thinker who demonstrates problem solving skills in professional practice
7. Researcher who generates and interprets evidence to ensure effective patient care as well as contribute in the field of medical research and practice.

 

Competency Based Training Programme of the Indian Medical Graduate

Competency based learning would include designing and implementing medical education curriculum that focuses on the desired and observable ability in real life situations. In order to effectively fulfill the roles, the Indian Medical Graduate would have obtained the following set of competencies at the time of graduation:

1. Clinician, who understands and provides preventive, promotive, curative, palliative and holistic care with compassion.

• Demonstrate knowledge of normal human structure, function and development from a molecular, cellular, biologic, clinical, behavioral and social perspective.
• Demonstrate knowledge of abnormal human structure, function and development from a molecular, cellular, biological, clinical, behavioral and social perspective.
•  Demonstrate knowledge of medico-legal, societal, ethical and humanitarian principles that influence healthcare.
• Demonstrate knowledge of national and regional health care policies including the National Health Mission that incorporates National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and National Urban Health Mission (NUHM), frameworks, economics and systems that influence health promotion, health care delivery, disease prevention, effectiveness, responsiveness, quality and patient safety.
• Demonstrate ability to elicit and record from the patient, and other relevant sources including relatives and caregivers, a history that is complete and relevant to disease 5 identification, disease prevention and health promotion.
• Demonstrate ability to elicit and record from the patient, and other relevant sources. including relatives and caregivers, a history that is contextual to gender, age, vulnerability, social and economic status, patient preferences, beliefs and values.
•  Demonstrate ability to perform a physical examination that is complete and relevant to disease identification, disease prevention and health promotion.
•  Demonstrate ability to perform a physical examination that is contextual to gender, social and economic status, patient preferences and values.
•  Demonstrate effective clinical problem solving, judgment and ability to interpret and integrate available data in order to address patient problems, generate differential diagnoses and develop individualized management plans that include preventive, promotive and therapeutic goals.
• Maintain accurate, clear and appropriate record of the patient in conformation with legal and administrative frameworks.
• Demonstrate ability to choose the appropriate diagnostic tests and interpret these tests based on scientific validity, cost effectiveness and clinical context.
• Demonstrate ability to prescribe and safely administer appropriate therapies including nutritional interventions, pharmacotherapy and interventions based on the principles of rational drug therapy, scientific validity, evidence and cost that confirm to established national and regional health programmers and policies for the following:

o Disease prevention,

o Health promotion and cure,

o Pain and distress alleviation, and

o Rehabilitation and palliation.

• Demonstrate ability to provide a continuum of care at the primary (including home care) and/or secondary level that addresses chronicity, mental and physical disability,
• Demonstrate ability to appropriately identify and refer patients who may requirespecialized or advanced tertiary care.
•  Demonstrate familiarity with basic, clinical and translational research as it applies to the care of the patient.

2. Leader and member of the health care team and system

• Work effectively and appropriately with colleagues in an inter-professional health care team respecting diversity of roles, responsibilities and competencies of other professionals.
• Recognize and function effectively, responsibly and appropriately as a health care team leader in primary and secondary health care settings. Educate and motivate other members of the team and work in a collaborative and collegial fashion that will help maximize the health care delivery potential of the team.
• Access and utilize components of the health care system and health delivery in a manner that is appropriate, cost effective, fair and in compliance with the national health care priorities and policies, as well as be able to collect, analyze and utilize health data.
• Participate appropriately and effectively in measures that will advance quality of health care and patient safety within the health care system.
• Recognize and advocate health. promotion, disease prevention and health care quality improvement through prevention and early recognition: in a) life style diseases and b) cancer, in collaboration with other members of the health care team.

3. Communicator with patients, families, colleagues and community

• Demonstrate ability to communicate adequately, sensitively, effectively and respectfully with patients, families, colleagues and community in a language that they understand and in a manner that will be mutually satisfying and beneficial to them as well as care givers cum learners to yield positive health care outcomes.
• Demonstrate ability to establish professional relationships with patients, families, 7 colleagues and community that are positive, understanding, humane, ethical, empathetic, and trustworthy.
• Demonstrate ability to communicate with patients, families, colleagues and community in a manner respectful of patient’s preferences, values, prior experience, beliefs, confidentiality and privacy.
• Demonstrate ability to communicate with patients, colleagues and families in a manner that encourages participation and shared decision-making and overcoming hesitancy towards health initiatives.

4. Lifelong learner committed to continuous improvement of skills and knowledge

• Demonstrate ability to perform an objective self-assessment of knowledge and skills, continue learning, refine existing skills and acquire new skills.
• Demonstrate ability to apply newly gained knowledge or skills to the care of the patient.
• Demonstrate ability to introspect and utilize experiences, to enhance personal and professional growth and learning.
• Demonstrate ability to search (including through electronic means), and critically re- evaluate the medical literature and apply the information in the care of the patient.
• Be able to identify and select an appropriate career pathway that is professionally rewarding and personally fulfilling.

5. Professional who is committed to excellence, is ethical, responsive and accountable to patients, the profession and community.

• Practice selflessness, integrity, responsibility, accountability and respect.
• Respect and maintain professional boundaries between patients, colleagues and society. Demonstrate ability to recognize and manage ethical and professional conflicts.
• Abide by prescribed ethical and legal codes of conduct and practice.
• Demonstrate commitment to the growth of the medical profession as a whole.

6. Critical Thinker who demonstrates problem solving skills in professional practice

• Perceive, analyse, synthesise and evaluate information obtained through observation, experience and communication that leads to rational clinical decision.
• Evaluate the credibility of information resources.
• Adequately consider the social, cultural and geographical diversity while practicing personalized medicine
• Develop independence of thought, clarity, integrity and self confidence in decision making.

7. Researcher who generates and interprets evidence to ensure effective patient care as well as contribute in the field of medical research and practice.

• Read, review, appraise and critique the scientific body of literature for practice of Evidence Based Medicine.
• Apply methodological approach to scientific enquiry for generating evidence.
• Demonstrate basic principles and ethical implications of research governance.

 

History

On April 1, 1982, Kerala Governor Mrs. Jyoti Venkatachellam inaugurated the college.

The foundation stone of the proposed college building was laid on 30th April 1982 at Mulungathukkav. The beginning of the medical college in Thrissur is on the campus of the veterinary college in Mannuthy.

By March 1983, the institution shifted to a permanent location in Mulungathukkav where the old buildings of the TB Sanatorium were modified to accommodate pre-clinical and para-clinical departments and an administrative block. The clinical departments started functioning on 22 October 1983 in the old district hospital and maternity hospital buildings in Thrissur city.

On April 1, 1985, the entire district hospital was taken over. The construction of the 300 bedded Medical College, Chest Hospital at Mulungathukkav was completed in 1987. The college took over the Ollur Primary Health Center in 1986 to provide regular training and preventive care to medical students in the community. Ollur and Erumapetty primary health centers were also made available for training purposes. Construction of a new 400-bed medical college hospital began in 1995.

The first class of 74 students entered the college in April 1982. The course was completed in May 1987. The college was granted permanent accreditation by IMC in 1991 and WHO in 1993. In January 1995, construction of a new hospital complex began. In Mulungathukkav, MD Radiodiagnosis courses were started in 1997 and MD General Medicine courses in 2004. In December 2005, the clinical departments were shifted from the district hospital to the new Medical College Hospital complex in Mulgunnathaku. The college celebrated its Silver Jubilee in 2007.