The Department of Medicine was established at Sri Devaraj Urs medical college on March 1988 under guidance of Late. Dr. Mohamed Noor Uddin as first HOD with vision of excellence in academics, research and clinical care.
The Department started with 3 post graduates in 1997 and later upgraded to 6 in the year 2003. In 2013, MD general medicine seats increased to 8 per academic year.
Both undergraduate and post graduates are well trained to acquire knowledge and various clinical skills and Department is involved in teaching Allied health science courses- like physiotherapy, dialysis technology.
Department has well trained faculty with rich research experience and actively involved in research projects and completed projects are published in reputed indexed, peer reviewed Journals.
Department actively takes part in managing all category patients of COVID pandemic, promoting awareness in public and conducting training sessions to various health care workers, police personnel and public health workers.