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Stanley Medical College
Stanley Medical College (SMC) is a government medical college with hospitals, located in Chennai (Madras) in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Though the original hospital is more than 200 years old, the medical college was formally established on July 2nd, 1938. Stanley Medical College is ranked 11th in the India Today & Nielson 2013 survey.
The college stands at the bleeding edge of medical techniques & technology, especially in the fields of plastic surgery, gastroenterology, and diabetology. Government Stanley Hospital acts as a teritary care center and an apex referral center for the people of North Chennai and neighbouring districts of Tamilnadu and Andhra Pradesh. The Institute for Research and Rehabilitation of Hand and Department of Plastic Surgery (IRRH & DPS) is the first institution in the state of Tamilnadu to have performed a successful Hand Transplantation. It is very widely recognised nationally as a ‘Center of Excellence’ for treatment of hand injuries and an advanced training center for a career in plastic surgery. Another crown in the jewel is the Institute of Surgical Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation Center, taking pride in being the only government-owned facility for liver transplant in the state of Tamilnadu. The facility also houses a ‘Stem Cell Research Lab’, one of its kind in a state-run medical institution, under the guidance of ICMR.
The college has several apex institutions affiliated to it, like the Govt. RSRM Lying-In Hospital (an institution with a rich history, as old as the main hospital), the Govt. Hospital for Thoracic Medicine (commonly known as Tambaram TB Sanatorium, which is an esteemed institution in its own right), Tondiarpet Peripheral Hospital, Institute of Diabetology, and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Social Pediatrics.
​The alumni of Stanley have tasted only success in all their endeavours with multitude of doctors excelling in their own fields everywhere they go.
With world-class teaching staff and educational facilities, Stanley Medical College is truly an institute worthy of its rich history.
EMPOWER
Empower, an enthralling amalgamation of academics, and current events in medical sciences. Greatest of all, it is a confluence of more than a thousand medical undergraduates, postgraduates, professors and paramedical practitioners unified for four event-packed days to celebrate the field of healthcare
Empower attracts a tremendous response in the form of record-breaking participation amidst all other medical events in Tamil Nadu, owing to its rich history spanning seventeen years of excellence. In this period, it has received and inspired a collective crowd of over one lakh medicos. In 2013, Empower achieved a medical milestone by being among the earliest medical events in Tamil Nadu to host international delegates
