Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore (CMC Vellore) is an educational and research institute and a tertiary care hospital located at Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the more prominent and well known medical destinations in India, having a reputation nationally and internationally. It is also one of the top ranked medical colleges in India. Founded in 1900 by an American missionary, Dr Ida S. Scudder, the institute has recorded significant achievements in the past like starting the first college of nursing in India (1946), performing the first Reconstructive Surgery for Leprosy in the World (1948), performing the first successful Open Heart Surgery in India (1961), performing the first Kidney Transplant in India (1971), performing first Bone Marrow Transplantation (1986) in India and performing the first successful ABO incompatible Kidney Transplant in India (2009).
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The Distance education department was started in September 2004 as a response to the acute need for multi-competent specialists to meet the huge demand in the health sector. This was spear-headed by Dr. Vinod Shah who established the Distance education Unit and launched a “Refer Less, Resolve More” initiative in the form of a 2 year Post Graduate Diploma in Family Medicine (PGDFM). Eleven secondary level hospitals across the country functioning as contact centers under the supervision of national and international Family Medicine faculty form the pillars of this program. This program has been upgraded to the Master in Medicine (M.Med.) in Family Medicine affiliated to the Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University, since 2013. The Master in Family Medicine (MFM) a two year online diploma course was started in 2014 in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Dept. of Distance Education