Government Medical College, Pariyaram

Pariyaram; It is a governmental medical college and was founded in 1995 as Government Medical College Kannur. This affiliated college, approved by NMC and has various healthcare academic programmes for students wishing to be medical professionals. GMC Kannur is compose of 300 faculty members and located in a large area which make good achievement in developing medical education in the area.

Government Medical College Kannur can also pride itself with a number of facilities that would facilitate learning of the students in the college. The library, which is central and said to be among the best in Medical college libraries in the Kerala, contains more than 11000 medical books and over medical journals. This booth also houses an e-library, and operates on a twenty-four hour basis.

The university has accommodation facilities for male and female separately which include; Hostel facilities, Mess facilities, recreation, power supply and water supply. There are dedicated sports lovers and the 36,000 square meters of a sports complex contain amenities for football, volleyball basketball, tennis, cricket and an athletic track and eight lanes.

It also possesses well stocked laboratories for each departments so as to give practical experiences to the students. As a health science institution, Government Medical College Kannur provides a number of medical course at the undergraduate, postgraduate and diploma levels. The flagship, the MBBS programme in particular, as the name suggests takes only 100 students per year.

The college also offers diverse masters degree programmes including; MD in General Medicine, Paediatrics, Dermatology, MS in General Surgery, ENT, Orthopedic among others. Also it has vazued training and research programmes and offers several specialised courses and diploma courses such as DM in Cardiology and several diploma programmes in medical technologies.

All in all, the college offers 31 courses offered in 6 different degrees to suit specialized areas of medicine. GMC Kannur has mostly the national level entrance tests for admitting the students. The admission into MBBS programme is centralized via the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test that the candidates take. Common for all postgraduate admissions, MD and MS courses are admitted through NEET-PG ranks.

The college accepts NEET scores only, be it NEET or NEET-PG, so every student gets equal chance or opportunity. The courses offered in GMC Kannur are based on NEET so the prospective students need to monitor and remember the NEET examination dates and results.