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 Front view of K S Hegde Medical Academy | |
| Motto | Long life ahead |
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| Type | PrivateMedicalCollege andHospital |
| Established | 1999 |
| Affiliation | Nitte University |
| Dean | P. S. Prakash |
| Location | ,, 12°52′10.1″N74°50′33.4″E / 12.869472°N 74.842611°E /12.869472; 74.842611 |
| Website | kshema |
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K.S. Hegde Medical Academy (KSHEMA) is a medical college inDeralakatte, near the city ofMangaluru. It is managed by theNitte Education Trust, which runs a number of professional colleges in the state ofKarnataka. The college offers theMBBS course along with post-graduation courses. The academy was affiliated toRajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences till 2009. Now it is affiliated toNITTE (Deemed to be) University.[1]
The KS Hegde Medical Academy is located at Deralakatte, a town about 13 km from Mangalore. The full-fledged academy is spread over 2.5 acres (10,000 m2) of land.
K S Hegde Medical Academy was established in 1999 by the Nitte Education Trust. The college is named after the visionary and founder, late JusticeK. S. Hegde, former Justice of theSupreme Court of India and former Speaker of the Lok Sabha and social worker
Since 2019 admissions under the General Merit category are being conducted via centralised single window counselling on the basis of merit (rank) obtained in the All India Entrance Test, National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), conducted byNTA.
M.B.B.S. (4½ year course + 1 year medical internship)
KSHEMA has signed an agreement of co-operation withThe University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA for co-operation in research, in diseases like malaria and tuberculosis. The college has established a state-of-the-art regional research centre on communicable diseases in collaboration with the University of Texas Health Sciences, on the campus.The institute also has a staff exchange and training programme withMaimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, USA.
The college hospital recently[when?] opened a super specialty block for Nuclear Medicine, Cardiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Paediatric Surgery, Urology, Nephrology, Plastic Surgery, Gastroenterology and Oncology.
| Medical college rankings | |
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| Private colleges: | |
| Outlook India (2022)[2] | 14 |
KSHEMA was ranked 14 among private medical colleges in India in 2022 byOutlook India.[2]
