Christian Medical College Vellore offers a huge range of different medical specialities, with advanced diagnostic and therapeutic services, alongside primary and secondary level care for local communities.
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CMC has more than 13,000 staff, including 2,512 doctors and 4,600 nurses. (Facts and figures 2024-2025). Most of the medical professionals are involved in providing medical care although they may also have teaching and research responsibilities. Almost every clinical speciality is catered for, and many departments are sub-divided into units each of which may have particular expertise in specific areas as well as providing services of a more general nature. For example, the Division of Surgery is further broken down into seven units specializing in Head and Neck Surgery, Endocrine Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Colorectal etc.
CMC is particularly well known for certain departments such as Neurosciences, Gasteroenterology and Haematology (where it is a national leader in the treatment of rare blood disorders and bone marrow transplantation). However it also gives high importance to less prominent specialities such as Rheumatology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Developmental Paediatrics and Palliative Care.
Ophthalmology and Psychiatry departments are located on different campuses, as is the Rehabilitation Institute.
