1900 Ida Scudder begins work with a single-bed dispensary in her parents’ bungalow
1902 40-bedded Mary Taber Schell Memorial Hospital opens with thefirst Dept. ofSurgery in India
1903 First training course for female compounders starts
1906 First“roadside clinics”deployed: primary care brought to villages using bullock carts
1909 First Nursing education program opens offering Diploma course
1918 India’s first Medical School for women opens with a Licentiate of MedicalPractitioner Course
1924 CMC Hospital opens on its present site in Vellore
1942 Medical College opens with full MBBS course
1945 Lab Technician training course
1946 India’s first College of Nursing opens offering degree course
1947 Male medical students admitted for MBBS course
1948 First reconstructive surgery on leprosy patients in the world carried out byDr. Paul Brand
1949 First Neurological Sciences department in South Asia set up byDr. Jacob Chandy Rural Health Centre at Kavanur
1950 MD and MS courses
1954 Radiographer training course
1956 Mental Health Centre
1957 Rural Health Centre at Bagayam; Pharmacy diploma course
1960 Ida Scudder, founder of CMC Vellore, passes away
1961 Successful open heart surgery (India’s first) Middle ear microsurgery (India’s first)
1962 India’s first kidney dialysis treatment introduced; Medical Records and Physiotherapy courses
1965 Fleming Memorial Research Laboratory in Virology
1966 Rehabilitation Institute (India’s first)
1968 Occupational Therapy and Hospital Administration courses
1969 College of Nursing Post-graduate degree courses
1970 Department of Nephrology opened (India’s first)
1971 Kidney Transplant (India’s first successful kidney transplant)
1976 Artificial Kidney Lab
1977 RUHSA First External Quality Assurance Scheme for 59 Indian labs
1978 Betatron ICMR Centre for Advanced Research in Virology;Nambikkai Nilayam(an institute for children with special needs)
1981 Ophthalmology hospital in the Schell campus
1982 Degree programmes in Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Low Cost Effective Care Unit started
1984 Department of Continuing Medical Education
1985 Epidemiology Resource Centre
1986 National AIDS Reference and Surveillance Centre;Bone marrow transplant (South India’s first);MSc Biostatistics
1987 CONCH
1991 Dr Ida B. Scudder Radiation Therapy Block
1994 Clinical Pastoral Counselling diploma course; creates India’s firstacademic Emergency Medicine department
1995 Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Reproductive Medicine Unit; Department of Endocrinology
1996 Carotid Bifurcation Stenting (India’s first); Trans-septal Carotid Stenting (world’s first); Trans-jugular Mitral Valvuloplasty (world’s first); Distance Education Unit; Family Medicine programme
1997 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit; Developmental Paediatrics Unit; Clinical Pharmacy post-graduate diploma course;In-Vitro Fertilisation via gamete intrafallopian tube transfer (India’s first)
1998 Bone marrow transplant in 6-month-old baby (India’s first);Total body irradiation for bone marrow transplantation (CMC’s first)
1999 WHO’s 50th anniversary award for the best institution providing primary health care;Intracytoplasmic sperm injection for infertility (CMC’s first); Liver transplantation (CMC’s first);2000 Ida S. Scudder Centenary Centre for Women and Children
2001 PACS for Radiology
2002 Medical Oncology Unit; Cytogenetics Lab
2003 Becomes largest Christian hospital in the world; Vellore Bombay Artificial Limb; Department of Bioengineering;Palliative Care Unit 2004 H1 Grading by Investment Information and Credit Rating Agency; Rheumatology Unit; Medical Genetics Unit; Telemedicine Unit; South Asian Cochrane Network; Department of Medical Education
2005 Living donor liver transplant (CMC’s first); Department of Continuing Nursing Education; Surgical ventricular restoration (CMC’s first); IDTRC
2006 PG Diploma in Family Medicine (Distance Education course)
2007 CSCR Pneumatic Tube Conveyor System for laboratory samples; Fellowship in Secondary Hospital Medicine; Missions Office
2008 Opens Anti-Retroviral Therapy Centre and theDepartment of Geriatric Medicine
2009 Endovascular repair of aortic aneurysm using three chimney grafts (first);Successful ABO-incompatible renal transplant (India’s first);Interventional pulmonary services;Cardiac Electrophysiology Unit;Department of Hospital Management Studies and Training
2010 Chittoor hospital campus foundation stone laid First PET Scanner in India (India’s first) Social Responsibility Award Field Research Facility College of Nursing (CON) receives GFATM award Florence Taylor Memorial Library opens in CON Medical Education Unit recognised as Regional Centre
2011 School of Optometry; E-learning classroom; Advanced Medical Simulation lab; CMC named WHO’s South Asian Regional Training Centre in Emergency Medicine 2012 Medical Physics Education and ResearchBlock; Medical undergraduate seats increase from 60to 100; Superspeciality courses in Endocrinology,Hepatology, Neonatology, Rheumatology,Endocrine Surgery and Vascular Surgery
2014 BMJ Award 2014 for Primary Healthcare inChallenging Circumstances SKOCH Order of Merit Awards 2014 for GIS and Tribal Healthcare
2015 Superspeciality courses in Critical Care and Hand Surgery;MD Nuclear Medicine WHO’s Public Health Champions Award
2016 5th International Consultation
2017 Bricklaying ceremony for trauma care centre, at Kannigapuram Campus
2018 Centenary of Medical Education (1918 – 2018)
