JIPMER currently has over 300 faculty members, over 700 resident physicians and over 800 nursing, administrative, and support staff.

Students who were trained here were granted a diploma called Médicin Locale that allowed them to practice medicine in the colonial territories.

The college then was located in the heart of the Pondichéry, opposite the place de Gaulle, which is now the Legislative Assembly Hall.

1959: The foundation stone for a new medical college building was laid at Gorimedu, on the outskirts of the town by SE Le Comte Stanislas Ostrorog, Ambassadeur de France aux Indes, 1964: Dhanvantari Medical College moved to Gorimedu, to a new campus called Dhanvantari Nagar.

[5] 1966: The main hospital block was inaugurated and the blood bank was commissioned, signalling the shift of all clinical services to the new campus.

[6] 2009: The Super Specialty Block started functioning, initially providing services from Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiology, Urology, and Plastic Surgery 2012: Paediatric, Obstetric and Gynaecology services moved into the JIPMER Women and Children's Hospital, which was inaugurated by Dr Manmohan Singh, the then Prime Minister of India.

The campus of JIPMER lies at the western entrance of Pondicherry and spreads across 195 acres (0.79 km2) of a hillock known locally as Gorimedu.

The campus contains the medical college, the old and new hospital blocks, student and resident hostels, staff quarters, a Kendriya Vidyalaya, a branch each of two nationalized banks, two ATM's, a post office, a temple, the Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam JIPMER Auditorium, playgrounds and sporting fields.

The Medical Superintendent helps the Director coordinate all the hospital functions pertaining to patient care.

[8] As of 2014[update], the Regional Cancer Centre has two departments housed in a new building, namely Radiotherapy and Medical Oncology.

Basic radiation facilities, such as 2D Cobalt and LINAC, HDR brachytherapy are available free to all cancer patients.

RCC, JIPMER is the only hospital in southern India to provide free cancer treatment, as is also done for other advanced medical services, such as pulmonary medicine, nephrology, gastroenterology etc.

JIPMER offers a number of medical, nursing and paramedical courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Candidates to the courses offered at JIPMER are selected based on All-India level entrance tests NEET and INI-CET.

Calls for applications and results of these examinations (including the names of selected candidates) are announced in major national newspapers as well as on the institute's website.

JIPMER currently admits 249 students to the MBBS course once every year through an all-India entrance examination.

Since, JIPMER is a Member of TEIN Network, the hospital can interact and share knowledge with European and Asian Countries.

On 15 February 2016 the personnel of JIPMER interacted over Video Conferencing using TEIN Network with Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) South Korea.