Osmania Medical College (Telugu: ఉస్మానియా మెడికల్ కాలేజీ) is a premier medical college in Hyderabad, India and is often ranked among the best medical colleges in the nation. It was founded in 1846 as the Hyderabad Medical School making it one of the oldest medical schools in the world. It is presently under the gamut of NTR University of Health Sciences. The College was originally affiliated to the Osmania University of Hyderabad.
Admissions to the undergraduate M.B.B.S program is based on performance in EAMCET. While, admissions to its postgraduate programs are based on the entrance test, APPGE. Osmania is considered the most competitive medical college to get into in the state of Andhra Pradesh because of its high reputation as a center of clinical excellence. It has nine teaching hospitals affiliated to it where students rotate at different time-intervals during the program. Each of these nine hospitals are among the busiest in their specialties providing medical students with a wide array of clinical scenarios. Treatment at all the hospitals affiliated to Osmania is free of cost and it caters to patients that present from far across the state.
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