Established 1999 Phone 0824 220 4490 Motto Long life ahead | Affiliation Nitte University Founded 1999 | |
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Type Private Medical College and Hospital Dean Prof Dr Satheesh Kumar Bhandary Undergraduates 100 till 2010/ 150 from 2011 Location mangalore, Karnataka, India Address P.O. Nityanandanagar, Deralakatte, Mangalore, Karnataka 575018 Similar Nitte University, Yenepoya Medical College, Father Muller Medical, Sri Devaraj Urs Medical, Sri Siddhartha Medical | ||
The K S Hegde Medical Academy, commonly referred to as KSHEMA, is a medical college in Deralakatte, near the city of Mangalore. It is managed by the Nitte Education Trust, which runs a number of professional colleges in the state of Karnataka. The college offers the MBBS course along with post-graduation courses. The Academy was affiliated to RGUHS (Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences) till 2009. Now it is affiliated to NITTE University.
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Campus
The KS Hegde Medical Academy is located at Deralakatte, a picturesque town about 13 km from Mangalore. The full-fledged academy is spread over 0.5 acres (2,000 m2) of land.
History
K S Hegde Medical Academy was established in 1999 by the Nitte Education Trust. The college is named after the visionary and founder, late Justice K. S. Hegde, former Justice of the Supreme Court of India and former Speaker of the Lok Sabha and social worker
Department
Sister institute
A B Shetty College of dental sciences (managed by Nitte education trust)
Undergraduate course
The admission under the General merit category will be through the process of centralised single window counselling on the basis of merit(rank) obtained in the All India Entrance Test, NEET, conducted by CBSE.
UG course
4½ year M.B.B.S. course. + 1 year medical internship.
M.D.
M.S.
Attached hospital
K S Hegde Charitable Hospital
International collaborations
KSHEMA has signed an agreement of co-operation with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA for co-operation in research, in diseases like malaria and tuberculosis. The college has established a state-of-the-art regional research centre on communicable diseases in collaboration with the University of Texas Health Sciences, on the campus. The Institute also has a staff exchange and training programme with Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, USA.
Recent developments
The college hospital recently opened a super specialty block for Nuclear Medicine, Cardiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Paediatric Surgery, Urology, Nephrology, Plastic Surgery, Gastroenterology and Oncology.