The building : Ground Floor

This is where we start our undergradate learning. The building is pretty large, the picture of which can be found on the home page of this site. It houses most of the departments that we have studied in. I'll take you through a little tour. In the front there is a beatiful garden which has a statue of Hippocrates. There is a gardener maintaining the garden. In the front of the building there are parking areas for the vehicles of the students and the Medical College Buses. You'll find a lot of gleaming bikes and buses parked here on the working day.

There are three main entrances into the building. The first one (that's the one towards the left side of the front) leads us to the Pharmacology department and the Biochemistry Lecture Hall. By the side of the Biochemistry Lecture hall, a stairway leads us to the Anatomy Department. On the immediate left are the various rooms for the Pharmacology Professors. If you go through the corridor to the left, you'll reach the Biochemistry Department. If you follow the corridor towards the left from the Biochemistry department, you'll reach the Biochemistry lab. You can get into the lab through the side entrance to the building. On the right side of the lab, there is a vacant plot which joins with the plot around the audiotorium in the back of the building.

The second entrance is in the middle. As you enter there is the Union Room on the right side and Security room on the left side. A litle more further in to the corridor you see Pharmacology labs on either side of the main entrance. Straight on from here you see a lounge in front of the auditorium. That lounge holds some coffee vending machines etc. This is the place where we have lunch hang out during the afternoons. There is enough space here for practicing the dance numbers for our campus festivals. The auditorium us rather small compared to the the C. O. Karunakaran hall. The stairway by the side of lounge leads us to the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine (or Community Medicine).

The third main entrance is on the right of the building. It takes us to the Physiology Lecture hall and Physiology Departments. Like the Bicochem Dept., the corridor takes you to the labs and there is a plot which connects to the plot around the auditorium. The stairway here takes you to the Department of Microbiology.

As I've mentioned before, there are side entrances to the building as well. The one on the left goes to the Biochem Lab and the one on the right to the Physiology lab. Staircases take you to Anatomy Dissection hall and Biochemistry Lab respectively.

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First Floor

I'll guide you through the first floor starting from the left side. If you take the stairway by the side of the Biochemistry Department, you'll reach the Anatomy Department on the right (to the left if you viewing from the front) and the Histology Lab on the left. The Anatomy Lecture hall stands proud right behind you as you enter the first floor. Towards right side of the corridor you have two demonstration rooms for Anatomy. Further right through the corridor takes you to the dissection hall and the small discussion halls nearby. By this time the stinking smell of the hall might have reached you if there is some dissection going on. On the left of the dissection hall is a stairway through which you can get out of the building through one of it's side entrances.

From the stairway which you came up, if you take the corridor to the left by the side of the Histology Lab, you'll reach the SPM Dept. It's located in the middle of the building. The space corresponding to the audiotorium downstairs is taken up by the SPM lab and that of the lounge is taken up by the SPM Dept. Staff rooms. So if you take up the corridor by the front of Histology Lab into the back part of the first floor you'll first see as stairway leading up the Department of Forensic Medicine. The whole department literally is in a different level. The most confusing part with the department is when someone comes up for emeregeny toxicological assessment during the night. The PG student who is supposed to examine will be inside the PG Hostel by the side of the library/office complex. So that's where you go to submit samples for toxicological anaylysis. Immediately after the stairway is the staff rooms and the SPM Lab which I mentioned before.

Now even further through the main corridor past the SPM Department you reach the place where the stairway leading from the Physiology department joins. There lies the SPM Lecture hall which will be located on top of the Physiology Lecture Hall. Further through the corridor you reach the Forensic Medicine Museum (corresponding to the Anatomy Museum/Demonstration hall) on the other side. Immediately after this is the Microbiology Department. To the left through the corner, you'll head straight into the Microbiology Department. This is the place where you give Microbiology samples for cutlure and sensitivity etc. There is also a separate lab which runs HIV - ELISA tests.

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The Pathology Block

This is a separate block on the right side of the main building. If you are inside the main building, you can reach there by going to the exit by the side of the Pysiology Lab. The Pathology block itself is in three floors. It's located in terrain which is lower as compared to main building. So, you are entering the top floor of the building as you enter by side of the main building.

Into the corridor, to the left is the erstwhile Girl's Common room. On the right side of the corridor are the various staff rooms for the Pathology Department staff. If you take the stair down, on the right side is the erstwhile Men's Common room. By the side of this is the AID - Research Cell. This is the place where we hang out and play games when we get free time. On the lef is the main pathology lab. Another floor down is the Clinical Pathology Section. Here, the specimens from all over the hospital complex are collected and studied for Histo Pathological Reports.

The actual entrance to this block is through the curving way by the side of the college ground towards the Priyadarshani Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences. That's the way you have to go to give Histo Pathological samples as well as collect the HPRs (reports).

The Canteen, Co-Operative Society Building & the New Common Rooms

This is located by the side of the Central Libary. If you get out through the side exit from the Biochemistry lab, you'll find the parking lot for the staff. By the side of it, there is a small stairway which leads you to the way to the Canteen. You can also get into the way by taking the right turn off the road leading to the Central Libray / Office Complex. Immediately on the right side is the newly constructed Common Room (mixed) for the undergraduates. Further on, to the right is the Co-operative society bulding and a small store where you get to buy some stationery items and candies etc. A little further on is the canteen which is a very shabby building. Recently, the food to has become really not good to eat.

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