Academics

• Twice monthly Clinical Society Meeting is conducted with participation of faculty and students of all the departments. This meeting provides opportunity to come across developments in other departments.
• Endowment lectures / orations are conducted annually by most of the departments. Students get ample opportunities to listen to and interact with the award winning national & international experts.
• Prize examinations are conducted in almost all the departments. Madras Medical College is the institution offering maximum number of prize examinations in the entire state.
• Students are encouraged and motivated to participate in regional & national level competitive academic events. They are guided to organise state level annual academic conclave also (GENESIS).
• Frequent interaction with faculty of clinical departments for enhancing knowledge on clinical application.
• Organising exhibition of 3D models of anatomic structures.
• Organising cadaver lab for enhancing surgical skills.

Patient Care

• Comprehensive state -of -art care for the underprivileged patients is the goal.
• Emergency care and Critical care have been strengthened.
• In addition to the previously existing Intensive Medical Care Unit, Toxicology Intensive Care Unit, Coronary Care Unit & Post-operative Intensive Care unit, 22 ICUs have been established in different departments, including a new exclusive Critical Care Unit.
• Special clinics --- Transgender clinic, Metabolic disease screening clinic (under Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam programme), Lupus Nephritis clinic , Epilepsy clinic, etc., have recently initiated.
• Hospital acquired infection control measures have been strengthened . Recent initiative is -- use of a particular colour bed linen on every day to ensure change of linen everyday.
• Patient and attendants’ amenities have been improved – modernised kitchen to provide food for patients, provision of dining facilities in every floor, mobile charging points, etc.
• More focus on Deceased Donor Organ Transplantation programme. MMC is the centre which has done maximum deceased organ donations in the entire state.

Research

Recent measures initiated to enhance research include

• Promotion of undergraduates to carry out research through ICMR grants.
• Multi-Disciplinary Research Unit- an ICMR unit is functioning well. Several research proposals have received ICMR grants.
• Periodic workshops are conducted on Research methodology, Good clinical practice , Biostatistics & Scientific manuscript writing.

Future Goals

The goal is to achieve further stride in all aspects.

• Further collaboration with the best universities/institutions across the globe in academics and research.
• Expansion of research activities – focusing on inter-departmental and integrated research.
• Promotion of epidemiological research.
• Encouraging out-reach activities with community participation.
• Implementation of ‘eco-friendly’ measures in the hospital campus – solar power utilisation, minimisation of use of power, innovative bio-medical disposal systems, making the campus more green with plantation of more trees, etc.
• Focusing on the potential role of Artificial Intelligence.
• Establishment of state-of-the art Genetics and Molecular Biology laboratories.
• Ethics and Communication skill development programmes for students.
• Organising language skill sessions for students.

In short, we envision to make this institution a ‘role model’ for other institutions in all arenas