What Students Say
Likes
- Government medical college trivandrum is the first medical college in kerala. Also as it is located in the capital city all the new advancements in medicine is firstly implemented in our college and thus we can get exposed to very new aspects of medi
- Our college has the highest patient load in our state.The patients are mainly from 3 southern districts of kerala and some parts of tamil nadu which exposes us to a wide variety of clinical cases which we can learn from those cases
- Our college faculties are the best in the state and they are equally devoted to the patients as well as the students. Their immense knowledge about their area of intrest is always shared with the students.
Dislikes
- The health care workers to patient ratio is very less , so there is a huge burden on the few doctors, nurses and other staffs in the hospital,which at times may cause a decrease in the quality of the health care provided to them
- Our college campus which includes Medical College hospital, Sree chithra, RCC which makes heavy rush in the roads and ambulances get stuck in those blocks for hours. The only single road to all these blocka make the campus very complicated
- The security system in our college is not up to the mark and there have been some cases where fake doctors were treating the patients in the hospital and also in cases where the health care workers are getting attacked by the patients or bystanders
Course Curriculum Overview
Getting to treat and cure a needy person is the ultimate feature which influences every medical students. The present MBBS curriculum is Competency based medical education, which creates competent indian medical graduates who are capable of performing all the major healthcare roles by achieving specific number of Competencies. The curriculam can be improved by providing some more exposures in areas like radiodiagnosis and some other specialities. The frequency and difficulty level of the exams are decent for achieving the competencies
Internships Opportunities
We can work as junior doctors in our college itself for one year which is a compulsory internship and it provides a pay of ?25000 monthly . They also work in peripheral health centres as medical officers for a few months in the internship period
Fees and Financial Aid
Tuition fees is around 25000 which is almost same for the past few years. Also the government provides scholarship for the students belonging to SC, ST, EWS, OEC categories in our college. There is a monthly hostel rent of ?40 and mess fees which is ?110per day. This is the only expense other than the books and the yearly exam fees. After final year one year of internship is done in our college itself which has a monthly stiphent of ?25000
Campus Life
Our college has all the clubs like arts club, sports club, theatre club, queer club and all of these are very active and our college is the intermedicos champions which consist of both arts and sports. All the sports teams are well trained by qualified coaches daily. All the lecture halls are airconditioned and have projectors. Library is also air conditioned with a huge collection of academic and non academic books . It is open till 9pm
Hostel Facilities
Rooms are well lit and has two fans. Everyone is provided with a coat and table. Mess is run by a private catering team on contract basis and it charges ?110 per day. The meals are okay according to the fees but not very delicious. Hostel is provided at the time of admission itself and has a rent of ?40 monthly and an establishment fee of ?500monthly
Admission
First of all NEET exam should be cleared and after the results are out, there is an all india allotment and kerala allotment. Both of them are online and will be allotted based on your rank. Our college being the top college in kerala had a very high cut off of 640plus marks in 2021 admissions. After getting the allotment letter we need to present in the college for the admission procedures and should present all the documents including the 10th and 12 th mark sheets. The admission procedure in the college is somewhat lengthy and in my case it took a whole day and was tiresome
Faculty
Faculty to student ratio varies depending on the department. But in most of the departments the ratio is stable and the facualties provide the best learning experience. All the facualties are well qualified in their own department and are the best in the state. Along with treatment and surgeries they also show high intrest in mentoring and teaching. They are both best doctors as well as best teachers. Most of them are very approachable and helpful
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