Medical Colleges in West Bengal

The state of West Bengal houses some of the finest and excellent medical colleges of India. The medical education provided by these medical colleges is of very high standard and recognized all across India.

The medical colleges of the state are equipped with state of the art infrastructure and eminent faculty members which helps in grooming the students both professionally and academically. The medical colleges of West Bengal work under the private sector as well as the state government. They are famous for providing placement to the students and also for consistently producing top medical professionals.

Admission Procedure

Since the state of West Bengal enrolls some of the finest students to its medical colleges, so the admission procedure is very stringent. The students must appear for the pre medical common entrance test in order to seek admission to the under graduate medical programs. The required criteria to seat for this test are the candidate should be at the least 17 years old. Moreover, he should also have qualified the HSC or equivalent with Biology, Physics, Chemistry and English with a minimum of 50% marks.

Medical Courses Offered

Following are the medical courses available at the medical colleges of West Bengal.

• M.B.B.S (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery)
• B. P. T. (Bachelor of Physiotherapy)
• B. Pharm. (Bachelor of Pharmacy)
• B.A.M.S
• B. H. M. S. (Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine & Surgery)
• B. D. S. (Bachelor of Dental Sciences)
• B.U.M.S
• B. M. L. T. (Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Technology)
• M.S. (Master of Surgery)
• M.D. (Doctor of Medicine)
• Postgraduate Diploma in medicine

Moreover, a number of other doctoral, specialty, certificate and diploma medical programs like DD, DA, DGO, DTCD and DCP etc are also offered at the West Bengal medical colleges.

Different Specialties

The most sought after specializations available to the medical students of West Bengal can be enumerated below.

• ENT
• Anatomy
• Pharmacology
• Neurology
• Physiology
• Pathology
• Anaesthesiology
• Medicine
• Surgery
• Nephrology
• Opthalmology
• Orthopedics
• Cardiology
• Obstetrics & gynecology
• Dentistry
• Urology
• Radio Diagnosis
• Bio-Chemistry
• Microbiology
• Forensic Medicine

Last Updated on : 2/05/2013

Medical Colleges in West bengal

Name	Address	Phone No.
Bankura Sammilani Medical College	P.O. Kenduadihi Bankura-722102	03242-251324/250434
Burdwan Medical College & Hospital	Burdwan, West Bengal -713104	0342-2558641 to 43/2558646
Calcutta National Medical College	24 Gora Chand Lane University of Calcutta (Govt.) Calcutta-700014	033-22440555
Medical College, Kolkata	88, College Street, Kolkata-700073	033-2212-3853, 2212-3741
Nilratan Sircar Medical College	138, AJC Bose Road, Kolkata - 700014	033-22653333, 22441330
North Bengal Medical College	P.O. Sushruta Nagar , Siliguri, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India - 734012	0353-2585478
RG Kar Medical College	1, Kshudiram Bose Sarani, Kolkata-700004	033-2555-7656 / 7675