The People's College of Medical Sciences and Research Centre (PCMS&RC) is a private medical college and tertiary care teaching hospital located in Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh, India. It is the flagship institution of the People's Group and forms part of the People's University, a private university established under a Madhya Pradesh state legislation.
Key facts
| Type | Private medical college and teaching hospital |
|---|---|
| Location | Bhanpur, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India |
| Affiliation | People's University, Bhopal |
| Recognition | National Medical Commission (formerly Medical Council of India) |
| Parent group | People's Group |
| Programmes | MBBS, postgraduate (MD/MS) and super-speciality courses, allied health and nursing programmes |
Overview
The college offers undergraduate (MBBS) and postgraduate medical education along with diploma and super-speciality programmes in selected disciplines. It operates an attached multi-speciality teaching hospital that provides clinical training to students and tertiary care services to patients drawn from Bhopal and surrounding districts of central India.
Academic departments span the standard pre-clinical, para-clinical and clinical subjects required for an Indian medical college, including anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology, microbiology, pharmacology, forensic medicine, community medicine, general medicine, general surgery, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, dermatology, psychiatry, anaesthesiology, radiodiagnosis and emergency medicine.
Background
PCMS&RC was promoted by the People's Group, an education and healthcare conglomerate based in Bhopal. The institution was established to expand private medical education capacity in Madhya Pradesh and to provide a teaching hospital for central India. It was subsequently brought under the umbrella of People's University, which was constituted by the Government of Madhya Pradesh as a private university.
The campus in Bhanpur, on the northern outskirts of Bhopal, also houses sister institutions of the group, including the People's Dental Academy, the People's College of Nursing and Research Centre, and a college of paramedical sciences, allowing for integrated clinical training across disciplines.
Hospital and clinical services
The associated People's Hospital is a multi-speciality tertiary care facility that supports teaching, research and patient care. It provides outpatient and inpatient services across general and specialist disciplines, with intensive care units, operation theatres, diagnostic radiology, laboratory medicine and a blood bank. The hospital serves as the principal site for undergraduate clinical postings, internship and postgraduate residency training.
Admissions
Admission to the MBBS programme is conducted through the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG), with seats allotted under state and management quotas as per the counselling process administered by the Madhya Pradesh authorities and the Medical Counselling Committee. Postgraduate admissions are based on NEET-PG, while super-speciality intake is governed by NEET-SS.
Significance
As one of the larger private medical colleges in Madhya Pradesh, PCMS&RC contributes to the supply of medical graduates and specialists in central India and supplements the tertiary healthcare infrastructure available in the Bhopal region alongside government institutions such as Gandhi Medical College and AIIMS Bhopal.