Established in 1971 as Patliputra Medical College at Ashok Raj Path Patna city, the college was under private management Later on due to paucity of adjacent hospital Govt. of Bihar transferred the college to Dhanbad and attached the Sadar Hospital, court more campus Dhanbad, SSLNT hospital Purana Bazaar Dhanbad and Central Hospital Jagjeevan Nagar Dhanbad (Govt. of India, under dept. of labor welfare) for teaching purpose.

Presently the annual admission in M.B.B.S course is 50 since 1977, which is likely to increase to 100 along with commencement of post graduation in different subjects. The college has facility for paramedical training courses in different streams. The hospital provides medical facilities to about 1000 OPD patients per day who comes from adjoining districts and state. At the Patliputra Medical College, we are committed to providing an environment that fosters excellence and creativity in our future doctors, health professionals and medical scientists.

•Respect their patients’ rights and responsibilities for their health and health care decisions;
•Have a fundamental understanding of health and wellbeing as well as pathology and disease;
•Work collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary health professional team;
•Have a strong sense of vocation, recognising the privilege of medical training and seek to apply their skills in ways that help those in greatest need, and to support their profession;
•Value research with a desire to contribute to medical knowledge, critically appraise new evidence and have a passion for life-long learning.

The Mission of the Patliputra Medical College, Dhanbad is to develop and train excellent, caring and ethical doctors. We seek to provide excellence in medical education, research and scholarship delivered in the context of faith and values, with respect for human life, dignity and social justice.
Specifically this includes :
•Excellence in training in communication and clinical skills to produce highly technically skilled graduates;
•Excellence in training in anatomy and the biomedical and clinical sciences to produce graduates with excellent basic and clinical science knowledge;
•Excellence in training in ethics, philosophy and the medical humanities to produce graduates who appreciate the social and ethical obligations of doctors to the wider community;
•Excellence in training and research with the aim of producing evidence-based practitioners who will aspire to advance medical knowledge;

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