The journey highlights


1900 - 1910

1900   Ida Scudder begins work with a single-bed dispensary in her parents’ bungalow
1902   40-bedded Mary Taber Schell Memorial Hospital opens with the first Dept. of Surgery in India 
1903  First training course for female compounders starts
1906  First “roadside clinics” deployed: primary care brought to villages using bullock carts
1909  First Nursing education program opens offering Diploma course

1911 - 1920

1918  India’s first Medical School for women opens with a Licentiate of Medical Practitioner Course 



1921 - 1950 

1924  CMC Hospital opens on its present site in Vellore
1942  Medical College opens with full MBBS course
1945  Lab Technician training course 
1946  India’s first College of Nursing opens offering degree course
1947  Male medical students admitted for MBBS course
1948  First reconstructive surgery on leprosy patients in the world carried out by Dr. Paul Brand 
1949  First Neurological Sciences department in South Asia set up by Dr. Jacob Chandy
  Rural Health Centre at Kavanur 
1950  MD and MS courses 

1951 - 1960 

1954  Radiographer training course 
1956  Mental Health Centre 
1957  Rural Health Centre at Bagayam; Pharmacy diploma course 
1960  Ida Scudder, founder of CMC Vellore, passes away 


1961 - 1970 

1961  Successful open heart surgery (India’s first) Middle ear microsurgery (India’s first) 
1962  India's first kidney dialysis treatment introduced;  
  Medical Records and Physiotherapy courses 
1965  Fleming Memorial Research Laboratory in Virology 
1966  Rehabilitation Institute (India’s first) 
1968  Occupational Therapy and Hospital Administration courses 
1969  College of Nursing Post-graduate degree courses 
1970  Department of Nephrology opened (India's first)  


1971 - 1980 

1971  Kidney Transplant (India’s first successful kidney transplant) 
1976  Artificial Kidney Lab 
1977  RUHSA First External Quality Assurance Scheme for 59 Indian labs 
1978  Betatron ICMR Centre for Advanced Research in Virology;
Nambikkai Nilayam (an institute for children with special needs) 


1981 - 1990 

1981  Ophthalmology hospital in the Schell campus 
1982  Degree programmes in Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy 
Low Cost Effective Care Unit started
1984  Department of Continuing Medical Education
1985  Epidemiology Resource Centre 
1986  National AIDS Reference and Surveillance Centre; 
Bone marrow transplant (South India’s first); 
MSc Biostatistics 
1987  CONCH 


1991 - 2000 

1991  Dr Ida B. Scudder Radiation Therapy Block 
1994  Clinical Pastoral Counselling diploma course;
creates India's first academic Emergency Medicine department  
1995  Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Reproductive Medicine Unit;
  Department of Endocrinology 
1996  Carotid Bifurcation Stenting (India’s first);   Trans-septal Carotid Stenting (world’s first);   Trans-jugular Mitral Valvuloplasty (world’s first); 
  Distance Education Unit;
  Family Medicine programme 
1997  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit;
Developmental Paediatrics Unit;
Clinical Pharmacy post-graduate diploma course;
In-Vitro Fertilisation via gamete intrafallopian tube transfer (India’s first)
1998  Bone marrow transplant in 6-month-old baby (India’s first);
Total body irradiation for bone marrow transplantation (CMC’s first) 
1999  WHO's 50th anniversary award for the best institution providing primary health care; 
  Intracytoplasmic sperm injection for infertility (CMC’s first);
Liver transplantation (CMC’s first);
  

2000  Ida S. Scudder Centenary Centre for Women and Children


2001 - 2010 

2001  PACS for Radiology 
2002  Medical Oncology Unit; Cytogenetics Lab 
2003  Becomes largest Christian hospital in the world;
  Vellore Bombay Artificial Limb; Department of Bioengineering;
Palliative Care Unit 
2004  H1 Grading by Investment Information and Credit Rating Agency;
Rheumatology Unit;
Medical Genetics Unit;
Telemedicine Unit;
South Asian Cochrane Network;
Department of Medical Education 
2005  Living donor liver transplant (CMC’s first);
Department of Continuing Nursing Education;
Surgical ventricular restoration (CMC’s first);
IDTRC 
2006  PG Diploma in Family Medicine (Distance Education course) 
2007  CSCR Pneumatic Tube Conveyor System for laboratory samples;
Fellowship in Secondary Hospital Medicine;
Missions Office
2008  Opens Anti-Retroviral Therapy Centre and the 
Department of Geriatric Medicine 
2009  Endovascular repair of aortic aneurysm using three chimney grafts (first); 
Successful ABO-incompatible renal transplant (India’s first);
Interventional pulmonary services;
Cardiac Electrophysiology Unit;
Department of Hospital Management Studies and Training 
2010  Chittoor hospital campus foundation stone laid
First PET Scanner in India (India's first) 
Social Responsibility Award
Field Research Facility 
College of Nursing (CON) receives GFATM award
Florence Taylor Memorial Library opens in CON
Medical Education Unit recognised as Regional Centre 


2011 till date

2011  School of Optometry; E-learning classroom;
Advanced Medical Simulation lab;
          CMC named WHO's South Asian Regional                    Training Centre in Emergency Medicine 
2012  Medical Physics Education and Research
  Block;
Medical undergraduate seats increase from 60
  to 100;
Superspeciality courses in Endocrinology,
  Hepatology, Neonatology, Rheumatology,            Endocrine Surgery and Vascular Surgery 
2014  BMJ Award 2014 for Primary Healthcare in                   Challenging Circumstances
  SKOCH Order of Merit Awards 2014 for GIS and Tribal Healthcare
2015  Superspeciality courses in Critical Care and Hand Surgery;
MD Nuclear Medicine
  WHO's Public Health Champions Award 
2016  5th International Consultation 
2017  Bricklaying ceremony for trauma care centre, at Kannigapuram Campus
2018  Centenary of Medical Education (1918 - 2018)