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Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore (CMC Vellore) is an educational and research institute〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/functional-blood-vessels-made-from-stem-cells/article4918331.ece )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cmch-vellore.edu/Research/tabid/71/Default.aspx )〕 and a tertiary care〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cmch-vellore.edu/ClinicalServicesDepartments/tabid/74/Default.aspx )〕 hospital located at Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the prominent and well known medical destinations〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/bestcolleges/2012/ranks.jsp?ST=Medicine&LMT=1&Y=2012 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.indiamedicaleducation.com/christian-medical-college.php )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.newstrackindia.com/topics/relevant/CMC-Vellore.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hospitalsinindia.org/south-india/vellore-hospital.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.examsworld.in/exam/187/christian-medical-collegecmc-vellore-medical-pgdoctoral-and-pg-fellowship-and-pg-nursing-admissions-2013/ )〕 in India, having reputations nationally and internationally.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://vellorecorp.tn.gov.in/abs_Corporation.htm )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.incredibletamilnadu.com/places/Vellore/ )〕 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 made significant achievements in the past like starting the first college of nursing in India (1978), 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).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cmch-vellore.edu/pdf/introducing%20cmc.pdf )〕 ==History== The hospital was founded by Ida Sophia Scudder in 1900. Ida Scudder was the daughter of an American missionary couple who were living in India. She was born in 1870 in Tindivanam, which was about 60 miles from the then Madras. As a young girl, she was not interested in pursuing her parents' footsteps into missionary works. The Scudder family went back to the United States of America (USA) in 1878 and then returned to India after a few years. But Ida Scudder had stayed in the USA. In 1890, she had to return to India to take care of her ailing mother.〔 It was at that time that she witnessed the pathetic condition of medical services in India, and felt the desperate need for women doctors in India. One evening, an Indian man came to their home requesting medical help for his wife who was in labour. But he rejected Dr John Scudder, the father of Ida Scudder's offer to help, as Indian social customs had anathematized male doctors' conducting of labour. Two more men came with similar requests, seeking medical help for their wives in labour, but again turning down John Scudder's offer. The three women died in labour that night. The incident rocked Ida Scudder to the core.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_290.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bu.edu/missiology/missionary-biography/r-s/scudder-ida-sophia-1870-1960/ )〕 She changed her attitude towards India and made her mind to get a medical degree so she could be of some help to Indian women. She went back to USA and in 1895, she enrolled in the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She completed her course in 1899 at Cornell University Weill Medical College.〔 She came back to India with a "fiery passion to change things."〔 She started a small dispensary in Vellore in 1900. In 1902, she built a 40-bed hospital. Her father died soon after she arrived in India. She continued her work in the dispensary and also started training women as compounders in 1903. She began setting up ''"roadside" dispensaries'', the first one, in 1906. The average life expectancy of an Indian then was 25 years.〔 She started a training program for nurses, which expanded into a nursing school in 1909. She also began training women physicians with the ''Union Mission Medical School for Women'' that she started in 1918. In the 1938 the government changed its policy declaring that medical degrees could be granted only by universities and medical diplomas granted otherwise would soon be invalid.〔 Scudder decided to upgrade her medical school to a medical college, the ''Christian Medical College''. The college was affiliated to the Madras University, and in 1942 it began offering MBBS courses.〔 In 1945, a laboratory technician training course was started. In 1946 a college of nursing, India's first, was started. In 1947, first batch of men medical students were admitted. Medical Postgraduate Courses (MD and MS) were started in 1950. In 1969 Postgraduate degree courses in nursing were started.〔 A number of other people also played an important role in the development of the college including Dr Theodore Howard Somervell, a British surgeon, Dr Paul Brand, another British surgeon, Dr Edward Gault, an Australian surgeon and pathologist, and Dr Mary Verghese, an Indian Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation specialist.〔 The hospital has been visited at various times by many prominent personalities including Queen Elizabeth II, Sir Alexander Fleming, Dr Jonas Salk, Mahatma Gandhi, President Radhakrishnan, President Rajendra Prasad, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and President Abdul Kalam.〔 The college now offers nearly 150 different post graduate courses in the medical, nursing and allied health disciplines, including PhD courses. A total of nearly 2000 students are enrolled every year.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cmch-vellore.edu/pdf/patients/CMC,%20in%20service%20of%20the%20nation%20since%201900.pdf )〕 The hospital serves over 2000 inpatients and 5000 outpatients daily, with 67 wards, 92 clinics each day and 121 departments/units.〔 Each year 100 students are admitted for the undergraduate medical course MBBS.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://admissions.cmcvellore.ac.in/admin/uploads/UG%20BULLETIN%20A%202013.pdf )〕 The MBBS course is recognised by the Medical Council of India.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mciindia.org/InformationDesk/ForStudents/ListofCollegesTeachingMBBS.aspx )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christian Medical College & Hospital」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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