Tirunelveli Medical College

Tirunelveli Medical College, fondly referred to by its alumni as TVMC, is a government-run premier medical institution in South India. The college is under affiliation to the Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai, State of Tamilnadu, India and is wholly owned and administered by the Government of the State of Tamil Nadu. The Institute is a medical teaching institution recognized by the Medical Council of India, New Delhi, India and is within the list of Medical Teaching Institutes of the World Health Organisation. The Tirunelveli Medical College is proud of worldwide alumni referred to by the name Nellaimedicos. The college enshrines the motto – Duty, Dignity, and Discipline and is a school for 1800 graduate, postgraduate and diploma students from around the country in various medical and paramedical faculties. The College and its constituent hospital are located in a sprawling campus of 228acres at Highgrounds in the city of Tirunelveli. The college, hospital and the hostels are all located within a radius of 1 kilometer of each other and within 7 kilometres of the city Railway Terminal and Intercity bus station. Tirunelveli also known as the Oxford of South India is home to a large number of reputed teaching institutions imparting higher education in different streams and a variety of disciplines since the last 100years. Tirunelveli in the Tamil vernacular means Tiru – Respected, nel – Rice and veli – fence, a beautiful nomenclature for this world of agrarian opulence. The city and its suburbs nestle on the shadow of the Western Ghats ranges which houses some of the worlds’ rarest fauna and flora. The city has a perennial river “Thamiraparani” and is near the waterfalls at Courtallam syn: Spa of South India.