Sri Siddhartha Medical College (SSMC) was innaugrated in the year 1988 by Sri Siddhartha Educational Society (SSES).The Medical College and hospital is located in the outskirts of Tumkur city – 6 km from the city stretched in a green field over a vast campus of 350 acres of the side of Bangalore – Honnavar National Highway and it is just 76 km from Bangalore city connected by road and railway. The college is affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore. SSMC Hospital has separate building for OPD and causality with independent departments of Medicine, Surgery, OBG, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Paediatrics, ENT, Dermatology, and Radiology
It offers 1350 bedded hospital, fully equipped with 12 major operation theaters in addition to minor operation theaters. SSMC is fulfilling the needs of rural population. There are skilled doctors with specially trained nurses and are giving a healing touch to the patients..
Candidate should obtain permanent registration with the Medical Council of India (MCI) or any of the States Medical Council within one month from the date of admission, failing which the admission of the candidate shall be cancelled.