Christian Medical College, Vellore

Christian Medical College, Vellore widely known as CMC, Vellore is a private, Christian community-run medical school, hospital and research institute. It is an unaided minority educational institution established in the year 1900. Started as a single-bedded clinic, under the leadership of Dr. Ida Sophia Scudder, the only daughter of second-generation American missionaries, it grew into a full-fledged medical college imparting education in medical, nursing and allied health sciences.