Government Medical College was started in the year of 1951 as a first medical college in the southern state of Kerala.  The Government of Travancore appointed a committee in the year of 1948 to formulate the proposals for starting a Medical College at Trivandrum. But its report and scheme which was submitted by the Committee was sanctioned in the month of October, 1948. The college is financed and managed by the Health and Welfare Department, Government of Kerala. It offers Graduate, Postgraduate and Postdoctoral levels courses in the field of Medicine, Public Health, Nursing and Pharmaceutical Sciences. In 1951, the college was started with an annual intake of 60 students but in 1983 it was increased to 200.