Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College

The clinical exposure is one of the biggest reasons students aim for Seth GS. KEM is an around 1,800-bed hospital that handles around 1.8 million OPD visits and around 85,000 in-patients every year. For MBBS students, that usually means early and consistent exposure to medicine, surgery, emergency care, obstetrics, paediatrics, and a wide range of referral cases that many other campuses simply do not see at the same scale.

It has a long and deeply established place in Indian medical education. The college began in around 1925 with around 46 students, and the hospital started admitting patients in 1926 with around 125 beds. It was also among the earliest medical colleges in the country, which tells you a lot about the kind of legacy and academic standing it carries even today.

The academic environment goes far beyond MBBS alone. The wider GSMC-KEM system supports around 2,000 students across MBBS, postgraduate, superspeciality, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, nursing, master's, and PhD-level programmes. For MBBS students, this creates a much richer learning environment because they are training inside a system that already has a strong academic and speciality culture around them.

The institution's legacy is tied to some major moments in Indian medicine. Names such as Dr. P.K. Sen, Dr. Indira Hinduja, and Dr. Rustom Vakil are associated with the Seth GS-KEM legacy, and that gives the college a place in the wider story of Indian medical progress. That kind of history adds real depth to the institution's identity and makes its reputation about much more than rankings alone.

It offers more than just patient volume; it also offers speciality depth. KEM is not simply a busy public hospital. It is also part of a tertiary-care environment with wide departmental strength and recognised speciality capabilities, including its role as one of India's Centres of Excellence for Rare Diseases. For students, that means exposure not just to common clinical cases, but also to more complex and advanced areas of medicine.

Its Mumbai location adds a real practical advantage. Seth GS-KEM is located in Parel, one of Mumbai's best-known medical hubs. Studying here means being in the middle of a dense healthcare and academic zone rather than on an isolated campus, and that changes the feel of the whole experience. It gives students the sense of being part of a larger, active medical ecosystem from the beginning.