Christian Medical College & Hospital - Milestones

Milestones

• 1900 Ida Scudder begins work with a single-bedded dispensary
• 1902 40-bedded Mary Taber Schell Memorial Hospital opened
• 1903 First training course started, for compounders
• 1906 “Roadside clinics” – outreach to villages using bullock cards began
• 1909 Nursing School opens with Diploma course
• 1918 Medical School for Women – Licensed Medical Practitioner Course
• 1924 Hospital opened on present site in Thottapalayam, Vellore
• 1942 Medical College opened with full MBBS course (men admitted from 1947)
• 1946 Nursing College opened – India’s first – offering degree course
• 1948 First reconstructive surgery on leprosy patients in the world; first Eye camps organised; first Neurological Sciences in South Asia
• 1950 Medical postgraduate courses started
• 1957 Rural Health Centre opened
• 1961 First successful open heart surgery in India, first middle-ear microsurgery in India
• 1966 First Rehabilitation Institute in India for physically disabled
• 1971 First kidney transplant in India
• 1977 Rural Unit for Health and Social Affairs; first external quality assurance programme for Indian laboratories
• 1978 ICMR Centre for Advanced Research in Virology established in CMC; Nambikkai Nilyam institute for children with special needs
• 1983 Low Cost Effective Care Unit opens providing services to urban slum areas of Vellore
• 1984 Continuing Medical Education Unit
• 1986 National AIDS Reference and Surveillance Centre. Whole body CT Scan. India’s first bone marrow transplant
• 1990 Infant open heart surgery
• 1993 Linear Accelerator for Radiation Therapy department
• 1995 Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• 1996 First trans-septal carotid stenting procedure and first trans-jugular valvuloplasty procedure in the world. Distance Education Unit opened with Family Medicine programme
• 1997 Developmental Paediatrics Unit; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit; first in-vitro fertilization
• 1998 Bone marrow transplant in a 6-month old baby
• 1999 First liver transplantation
• 2000 Ida S. Scudder Centenary Centre for Women and Children opened; 2000th live donor kidney transplant
• 2003 Vellore Bombay Artificial Hand developed; Palliative Care Unit; Fellowship in HIV Medicine Course
• 2004 Rheumatology Unit, Medical Genetics Unit and Telemedicine Unit inaugurated; Centre for South Asian Cochrane Network
• 2005 First live donor liver transplant. Infectious Diseases Training and Research Centre opened
• 2006 PG Diploma in Family Medicine distance education course
• 2007 Centre for Stem Cell Research; Fellowship in Secondary Hospital Medicine started
• 2008 Department of Geriatric Medicine. Anti Retroviral Therapy Centre
• 2009 Endovascular repair of Aortic Aneurism using three chimney grafts; first successful ABO incompatible renal transplant in India
• 2010 PET Scanner. Medical Education Unit recognised as regional centre; foundation stone for Chittoor Campus laid