Milestones

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

• First Nursing education program opens offering Diploma course

1911 – 1920

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

• 1947Male 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 byDr. 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

1991 – 2000

1991 Dr Ida B. Scudder Radiation Therapy Block

1994

• Clinical Pastoral Counselling diploma course; creates India’s firstacademic 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

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 theDepartment 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 ResearchBlock; Medical undergraduate seats increase from 60to 100; Superspeciality courses in Endocrinology,Hepatology, Neonatology, Rheumatology,Endocrine Surgery and Vascular Surgery

2014 BMJ Award 2014 for Primary Healthcare inChallenging 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)

2018

• Centenary of Medical Education
• Dr. Robert H. Fish, the closest living relative of the founder, Ida Scudder,
• delivered the seventh Dr. Ida S.Scudder Humanitarian Oration –
• ‘Honouring the Legacy of Dr. Ida Belle Scudder’
• Paediatric Nephrology sub-speciality celebrates its First renal transplant

2019

• Dr.Gagandeep Kang becomes the ­First
• Indian woman to be elected Royal Society Fellow
• Department of Clinical Haematology celebrates completion of 2000  allogenic stem cell transplants

• Department of Gastroenterology successfully performed an endoscopic
• ultrasound-guided gastro-enterostomy for the First time in South India.

2020

• CMC receives the Indian Research Excellence Award.
• Ranked third in the National Institutional
• Ranking Framework (NIRF) – India Ranking 2019.

• Dr. Priya Abraham, is appointed as
• Director of National Institute of Virology

• Dr. Mathew J. Chandy receives the
• Honorable Padma Shri award.
• CMC ranked second among the Best
• Medical Colleges by India Today.

2021

• 49th rank among the best medical schools in the world
• India’s first transjugular pulmonary valve implantation.
• India’s first transfemoral tricuspid valve
• implantation. Outlook – ICARE Rankings 2021 (Among India’s top 23 private medical institutes, CMC, Vellore holds the first rank).

2022

• Award for Excellence in Stroke Care
• The Department of Neurology received the World Stroke Organization (WSO) Angel’s Diamond Award for excellence in Stroke Care.
• CMC Vellore Ranipet Campus:

• A landmark expansion
• CMC’S First major expansion since the Town Campus was opened in 1924. It Houses a Level-1 Trauma Care Facility and offers all the super-speciality services Available at CMC.
• Mr. M. K. Stalin, the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, inaugurated the Ranipet Campus.

2023

• Golden Jubilee of Clinical Biochemistry
• The Department of Clinical Biochemistry Commemorated its golden jubilee. Advancements in Radiation Therapy:
• Introducing Surface Guidance Technology
• The Department of Radiation Oncology Implemented Surface Guidance Technology
• to improve patient setup accuracy and radiotherapy delivery.

2021

49th rank among the best medical schools in the world
India’s first transjugular pulmonary valve implantation.
India’s first transfemoral tricuspid valve
implantation. Outlook – ICARE Rankings 2021 (Among India’s
top 23 private medical institutes, CMC, Vellore
holds the first rank).

2022

Award for Excellence in Stroke Care
The Department of Neurology received the World Stroke Organization (WSO) Angel’s Diamond Award for excellence in Stroke Care.
CMC Vellore Ranipet Campus:

A landmark expansion
CMC’S First major expansion since the Town Campus was opened in 1924. It Houses a Level-1 Trauma Care Facility and offers all the super-speciality services Available at CMC.
Mr. M. K. Stalin, the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, inaugurated the Ranipet Campus.

2023

Golden Jubilee of Clinical Biochemistry
The Department of Clinical Biochemistry Commemorated its golden jubilee.

Advancements in Radiation Therapy:
Introducing Surface Guidance Technology
The Department of Radiation Oncology Implemented Surface Guidance Technology
to improve patient setup accuracy and radiotherapy delivery.