Type | Education and research institution |
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Established | 1926 |
Endowment | Public |
Dean | Avinash Supe |
Academic staff
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390 |
Undergraduates | 180 MBBS,40 Physiotherapy, 40 Occupational therapy students |
Location | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
Affiliations | Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik |
University and college rankings | |
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Medical - India | |
India Today (2017) | 7 |
Outlook India (2017) | 8 |
The Week (2017) | 12 |
King Edward Memorial Hospital and Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College (Marathi: Rājā Êḍvarḍ (Sātavē) Smārak Rugṇālaya Va Sēṭh Gōvardhandās Sundaradās Vaidyakīya Mahāvidyālaya) is a teaching and medical care providing institutions in India. It was founded in 1926 in Mumbai. It is affiliated to the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS), Nashik.
The medical school (Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College) provides training to about 2000 students in undergraduate, postgraduate, and super-speciality medical courses. The institute also provides undergraduate and postgraduate courses in physical therapy and occupational therapy apart from Master's and PhD courses in various allied specialities. A nursing school is also maintained by the institution.
With about 390 staff physicians and 550 resident doctors, the 1800 bedded hospital treats about 1.8 million out-patients and 78,000 in-patients annually and provides both basic care and advanced treatment facilities in all fields of medicine and surgery.
Funded mainly by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, these institutions render yeomen service—virtually free of cost—mostly to the underprivileged sections of the society.
Avinash Supe is the current dean of the college.
The medical college and hospital is located in South Mumbai in an area called Parel. This locality is home to the middle and lower middle class citizens of Mumbai. It also has many medical centers in an area of a square kilometer. These include, besides the KEM and GS Medical College, the Wadia Maternity Hospital, the Wadia Children's Hospital (both affiliated to the KEM); the Tata Memorial Hospital which is the largest cancer hospital in Asia, National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health and the Haffkine Institute, the latter being a premier "basic medical research" institute in the city.