Andhra Medical College

Andhra Medical College is a public medical college in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, and affiliated to Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences. It is the oldest medical college in Andhra Pradesh, the sixth oldest & one of the top medical colleges in India. It is recognised by the National Medical Commission.^[1]

Andhra Medical College

Motto	Ne Quid Nimis (Let there be nothing in Excess)
Type	Government Institution
Established	19 July 1923; 102 years ago (19 July 1923)
Principal	K. V. S. M. Sandhya Devi
Undergraduates	250 per year (MBBS)
Postgraduates	212 per year + Super Specialty seats 23 per year
Address	Maharanipeta, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, 530002, India. , Visakhapatnam 17.70422°N 83.29976°E / 17.70422; 83.29976
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences, NMC
Website	amc.edu.in

Emblem

Andhra Medical College emblem was designed by F. J. Anderson, the first principal.^[2]

Renovation

In the year 2020, Sudhakar, the then principal of AMC, had disclosed the modernisation plan for the hospital.^[3] A plan is being designed to have vertical buildings which will accommodate all the departments of the college. A sum of ₹120 crores had been earmarked for this purpose.^[3] It is proposed to demolish the Panagal building in the campus and a seven-storey building is planned to be constructed in its place. The building is proposed to accommodate all departments from anatomy to community medicine and even pre-clinical and para-clinical departments.

Principals

Name	Specialization	From	To
Lt. Col. F.J. Anderson	Professor of Surgery	1923
Lt. Col. F.C. Frazer	Professor of Surgery	1927	1928
Dr. T. S. Tirumurti	Professor of Pathology	1930	1930
Major J. W. Ebden	Professor of Surgery	1933	1933
Major F.M. Collins	Professor of Surgery	1937	1938
Major J.F. Shepherd	Professor of Surgery	1939	1941
Major F.A.B. Shepherd	Professor of Surgery	1941	1945
Dr. T. Bhaskara Menon	Professor of Pathology	1945	1948
Dr. N. G. Pandalai	Professor of Microbiology	1948	1951
Dr. M. V. Ramana Murthy	Professor of Surgery	1951	1951
Dr. T. K. Raman	Professor of Medicine	1951	1953
Dr. M. D. Anantachari	Professor of Medicine	1953	1954
Dr. D. Govinda Reddy	Professor of Pathology	1954	1956
Dr. S. Venkateswarlu	Professor of Radiology	1956	1956
Dr. G. V. Satyanarayana Murty	Professor of Medicine	1956	1959
Dr. K. Ramesh Pai	Professor of Surgery	1960	1960
Dr. P. Narasimha Rao	Professor of ENT	1960	1964
Dr. V. S. Raghunathan	Professor of Medicine	1964	1968
Dr. P. Brahmayya Sastry	Professor of Physiology	1968	1969
Dr. R. Satyabhama Reddy	Professor of OBG	1969	1974
Dr. L. Suryanarayana	Professor of Surgery	1974	1975
Dr. K. Kameswari Devi	Professor of OBG	1975	1976
Dr. K. Sanjeeva Rao	Professor of Anatomy	1976	1981
Dr. C. Sita Devi	Professor of Biochemistry	1981	1984
Dr. E. N. B. Sharma	Professor of Surgery	1985	1986
Dr. V. S. Dhanraj	Professor of Anesthesia	1986	1987
Dr. K. Veerebadhiah	Professor of Surgery	1986	1987
Dr. G. Nirmala	Professor of Pharmacology	1986	1998
Dr. C. Syamala	Professor of Paediatrics	1992	1995
Dr. V. Pranava Murty	Professor of Medicine	1994	2001
Dr. P. A. Jayakar	Professor of Microbiology	1995	1996
Dr. R. Venkata Ramana	Professor of Surgery	1996	1997
Dr. K. Surya Rao	Professor of Medicine	1997	1997
Dr. R. Ahikrishna	Professor of Ophthalmology	1998	1999
Dr. K. Akkalanaidu	Professor of ENT	1999	1999
Dr. A. Prakasa Rao	Professor of ENT	1999	2000
Dr. K. Venugopala Rao	Professor of Pediatric Surgery	2000	2001
Dr. Sasiprabha	Professor of OBG	2001	2002
Dr. K. Raghavaprasad	Professor of Community Medicine	2002	2003
Dr. Ch. Gnaneswar	Professor of Medicine	2002	2003
Dr. Ronanki Narayana Rao	Professor of Medicine	2003	2006
Dr. C. V. Rao	Professor of Plastic Surgery	2006	2008
Dr. G. Bhagya Rao	Professor of Psychiatry	2008	2011
Dr. Vishnu Prasad	Professor of Neurosurgery	2011	2011
Dr. Santha Rao	Professor of Surgery	2012	2012
Dr. Kalpana Subrahmanyam	Professor of Biochemistry	2012	2013
Dr. S. V. Kumar	Professor of Surgery	2013	2016
Dr T. Radha	Professor of OBG	2016	2017
Dr. P. V. Sudhakar	Professor of Plastic Surgery	2017	2022
Dr. G. Sambasiva Rao	Professor of Pulmonary Medicine	2022	2022
Dr. G. Butchi Raju	Professor of Neurology	2022	2025
Dr. K. V. S. M. Sandhya Devi	Professor of OBG	1 March 2025	Incumbent

Departments

1. Department of Anaesthesiology
2. Department of Anatomy: established in 1923. The first Professor was Capt. F. J. Anderson. It has a Museum. There are two artificial human skeletons donated by Dr. R. Krishna Rao. Dr. S. Swaminathan Prize and Dr. Anderson Medal are awarded to meritorious students annually.
3. Department of Biochemistry: started in 1925 as part of the Physiology department. Dr. V. K. Narayana Menon was the first professor. Rao Bahadur Dr. V. K. Narayana Menon Medal, Dr. Venkateswarulu Prize, Dr. M. V. V. Krishna Mohan Memorial Prize and Dr C. Sita Devi University Medal awarded annually to meritorious students.
4. Department of Cardiology: started in 1971 as a 25-bedded ward with Intensive Care Unit. As a result of public contributions and Costal Andhra Heart Foundation, a separate building was constructed exclusively for the Department of Cardiology in 1981. The department was upgraded to 36-beds and 18-bedded Intensive Cardiac Care Unit. An Intermediate Coronary Care Unit was opened in the year 2001.
5. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery: started in 1956 with Dr. B. Sundara Rama Murthy as the first professor. An open heart surgery Unit was recently inaugurated on the second floor of the Cardiology Block with financial assistance from the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant and the Coastal Heart Foundation.
6. Department of Dental Surgery
7. Department of Dermatology
8. Department of Endocrinology
9. Department of Forensic Medicine
10. Department of Gastroenterology
11. Department of General Surgery
12. Department of Medicine: set up at the King George Hospital and upgraded in 1923. The acute medical care unit runs 24 hours. Dr. W. C. Gray was the first professor and head. Jeypore Sri Vikram Deo Varma Medal, Vemuri Sivaji Rao Medal and Dr. P. Kutumbaiah prizes are awarded annually.
13. Department of Microbiology
14. Department of Nephrology: established by T. Ravi Raju, who has been instrumental in developing the Kidney transplantation facility in the hospital.^[4]
15. Department of Neurology
16. Department of Neurosurgery: started in 1956. It is the first neurosurgical unit of the united Andhra Pradesh.^[5] Dr. S. Balaparameswara Rao was its first professor and head of the department. An exclusive unit of 'Head Injury and Intensive Care' was started in 1991. Superspeciality course (M.Ch.) was started in 1986.
17. Department of Nuclear Medicine
18. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
19. Department of Ophthalmology
20. Department of Orthopaedics: set up in 1964 with Dr. C. Vyaghreswarudu as the head of department. An artificial limb center was set up in 1983.
21. Department of Otorhinolaryngology
22. Department of Paediatric Surgery
23. Department of Paediatrics
24. Department of Pathology: started in 1923. Dr. T. S. Tirumurti was its first professor. Postgraduate courses were started in 1946. It was upgraded in 1953. The Cytology wing was started in 1996. Dr. T. Bhaskara Menon Memorial prize and Dr. Tatachari medal is annually awarded to meritorious students.
25. Department of Pharmacology
26. Department of Physiology
27. Department of Plastic Surgery
28. Department of Psychiatry
29. Department of Radiology
30. Department of Radiotherapy
31. Department of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
32. Department of Community Medicine: The Department of Hygiene and Bacteriology was established in 1925. Dr. C. Rama Murty was its first professor. It was renamed as Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in 1955 and now called Department of Community Medicine. The department gives out Silver Jubilee Celebration Committee Prize and Endowment Medal, Dr. Sonti Dakshinamurthy Prize and Dr. Vallabha Sastry Prize every year.
33. Department of Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases
34. Department of Urology

Library

Main entrance of Andhra Medical College & Hospital

Andhra Medical College Central library was established in 1930. By 1987, the library had a collection of 32,000 books and 107 journals.

Recently an independent library building complex was constructed in front of the Panagal building (main building/office) and near the house surgeons and postgraduates men's hostel.

Teaching hospitals

These Teaching Hospitals are attached with the Andhra Medical College:

Main building of KGH.

• King George Hospital
• Government Victoria Hospital
• Government Hospital For Mental Care
• Rani Chandramani Devi Government Hospital
• Government Hospital for Chest and Communicable Diseases
• Government Regional Eye Hospital
• Government ENT Hospital

Hostels

The Andhra Medical College provides separate hostels for men, women, house-surgeons and postgraduates.

• AMC Women's Hostel was built in 1942. The hostel has a capacity of accommodating 175 students and has a play ground, reading rooms, recreational centre and library.
• AMC Men's Hostel is in an area of 18 acres (73,000 m²). It was built during the year 1952 with a total of 262 rooms. The hostel has a dining hall, reading room, TV room and recreational centre for indoor games.
• Hostel for House-surgeons and Postgraduates was built in 1965.

The wings of AMC

• The Institutional Ethics Committee
• The AMC Research Forum
• The Medical Education Cell
• Rasamayi
• Prakriti
• AURA (AMC Undergraduate Research Association) is a recently established research forum for encouraging the undergraduate students to do research in the field of their choice.

Dr R Rednam Surya Prasada Rao professor of ophthalmology who trained many ophthalmologist is considered teacher per excellence As an honour Government Regional Eye Hospital was named after him.

Dr M Suryanarayana Murthy professor of Ophthalmology was considered as one of the greatest teachers which Andhra Medical College ever produced. His encyclopaedic knowledge use to enthrall the students. He was called the "Walking Duke Elder" ho wrote 16 volumes on eye called the system of Ophthalmology.

AMCOSA

Andhra Medical College Old Student's Association (AMCOSA) was formed by the efforts of Prof. P. Brahmayya Sastry and Dr. C. Vyaghreswarudu. The first AMCOSA day was celebrated on 28 January 1967, which was inaugurated by Lt.Col. Dr. M. V. Ramana Murthy, who was the last Surgeon General of the combined Madras Province.

Notable people

• T. Prabhakar — first vice-Chancellor of Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences
• Hilda Mary Lazarus — principal of AMC and superintendent of KGH^[6]
• M. G. Kini — professor of orthopaedics
• B. V. Satyanarayana (1927–2005) — professor of dermatology^[7]
• V. Ramalingaswami (1921–2001) — Eminent Nutritional Scientist and recipient of Padma Bhushan
• P. Brahmayya Sastry — professor of physiology
• P. Kutumbaiah — professor of medicine
• I. Bhooshana Rao — forensic pathologist and academic
• Kakarla Subba Rao — professor of radiology and director, Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences
• L. Suryanarayana — professor of surgery, principal of AMC and vice-Chancellor, NTR University of Health Sciences
• P. Siva Reddy (1920–2005) — professor of ophthalmology and director of Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital
• Ponduri Venkata Ramana Rao (1917–2005) — professor of microbiology and director of Institute of Preventive Medicine
• Sripada Pinakapani — general physician, Sangeetha Kalanidhi and recipient of Padma Bhushan
• Sonti Dakshina Murthy (1899–1975) — professor of social and preventive medicine
• A. Ranganadha Rao — the first urologist of Andhra Pradesh
• Raman Viswanathan — chest physician and Padma Bhushan awardee
• Seshagiri Mallampati — anaesthetist, best known for proposing the eponymous Mallampati score