Maharaja Krushna Chandra Gajapati Medical College and HospitalBrahmapur, Ganjam, Odisha is a government medical college and hospital that started functioning in 1962 as a medical college and 1966 as a hospital. Subsequently, the medical college and the attached hospital were renamed after renowned late Maharaja of Parlakhemundi, Ganjam, Krushna Chandra Gajapati. It also has a college of nursing, which is established in 1983. It is the first nursing college in odisha.
Campus area is about 120 Acer's.
It operates with 23 clinical departments, 8 non-clinical and para-clinical departments and with 1190 beds. A tele-medicine unit, provided by the ISRO, is operational.
It imparts medical education to 250 undergraduate students, 116 post-graduate medical students, 2 DM (cardiology) anf 2 DM (endocrinology) superspeciality students, 80 diploma students in medical laboratory technology and 30 diploma students in medical radiation technology.
MKCG offers the four and half year MBBS course with one year compulsory rotating internship in affiliated hospitals to a maximum of 250 students per year.
Admission to this college in MBBS course is extremely competitive and strictly on the basis of merit.