[2] The Medical College and Hospital was established in the year 1988 and serves the population of Tumakuru City and surrounding towns.
[3] The Medical College and hospital is located in the outskirts of Tumakuru city – 6 km from the city amidst green field in a vast campus of 350 acres of the side of Bengaluru – Honnavar National highway and it is just 76 km from Bengaluru, well connected by road and railway.
Separate buildings for Pre and Para-clinical departments, spacious library and information center and SSMC Hospital.
SSMC Hospital has separate building for OPD and causality with independent departments of Medicine, Surgery, OBG, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Paediatrics, ENT, Dermatology, and Radiology.
Medicine Radio Diagnosis Ophthalmology Surgery Admissions to U.G and P.G courses shall be made on an All India basis to the identical courses in all deemed-to-be universities through a Common Entrance Test conducted by UGC or by an Institution / Agency identified and approved by the UGC.
this event usually held on evening during MedEX event Helmethon is helmet awareness campaign initiated and led by Dr. Pallavi Sarji Uthkarsh, Dr. M. S. Rajanna & Dr. Ashok Jayaram, This campaign was designed with the inputs from youth, so that more youth would be part of this.