There is a Central Animal House with a wide range of common laboratory animals, for conduction of research programme. The college is present over a sprawling campus of around 286 acres and has lecture halls, libraries, reading rooms, auditoria and 3 separate UG hostels for men (The House of Princes, The House of Lords, Valluvam)and 3 for women (The House of Angels, The Palace of princess, Junior angels)with separate hostels for interns(CRMI) and Postgraduates inside the hospital campus. The official emblem of the college has the caduceus, paddy (which has been included to denote Tiru'nel'veli ('nel' - நெல் - paddy)) and the words 'Duty, Dignity, Discipline'. The college increased the number of admissions to 100 per year during 1973-74 and was subsequently recognised by the Medical Council of India since the year 1977.Īt present the college gives admission to 250 students each year.

MGR Medical University, Guindy, Chennai in 1988. The college was affiliated to the Madurai Kamaraj University consequent to its inception in 1967 till the newly formed The Tamil Nadu Dr. Other departments like Pharmacology, Pathology, Microbiology and Social & Preventive Medicine started functioning in the subsequent years, and the District Headquarters Hospital was converted to Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital.

In July 1966, the first batch of second year MBBS students started attending the classes in the then newly constructed Anatomy Block.

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