Earlier the institute was having special reservations for students from rural areas of the count and the institute was having its own premedical test (PMT) examination, which includes a multiple choice question test on physics, chemistry and biology and a special theory paper on Gandhian thoughts.

The Kasturba Hospital was started in 1945 by Sushila Nayar, close associate of Gandhi and his personal physician.

Facility- as well as community-based research is conducted in areas like maternal, neonatal, and child health care, infectious diseases, nutritional illnesses, lifestyle and disorders.

The Department of Community Medicine has been designated the lead center for State Level Monitoring of ICDS activities in Maharashtra.

They also coordinated the monitoring of ICDS activities throughout the state conducted by selected medical colleges identified for this purpose.

The Clinical Epidemiology Unit started its first activity with a capacity building program of its members.

The newly admitted students spend 15 days in the Sevagram Ashram for the orientation to the Gandhian way of life.

The villagers are all given a free health checkup and are investigated for basic infections like malaria and filaria.

It was previously held at the Kasturba Rural Health Training Center (KRHTC) at Aanji.

This is a 15-day exercise where students learn aspects of Public Health and get hands on experience of the rural India.