title: Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences
text: # Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences
  
  Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS) is a medical college located in Gulbarga, Karnataka and run by the Government of Karnataka. The institution is affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences.
  
  ## Attached Hospitals
  
  The teaching hospitals attached to the institution are Government District Teaching Hospital Gulbarga. Government District Hospital is a government run 750 bed hospital with felicities a Regional Diagnostic Laboratory, Dialysis Unit, Blood Bank, Mortuary / PM, X-Ray, Burns Ward, ART Centre and Ayush Center.
  
  ## Admissions
  
  ### Undergraduate courses
  
  **M.B.B.S.**
  
  The college offers the four and a half year M.B.B.S. course with a one-year compulsory rotating internship in affiliated hospitals.
  
  ## Departments
  
  * ANATOMY
  * PHYSIOLOGY
  * BIOCHEMISTRY
  * PHARMACOLOGY
  * PATHOLOGY
  * MICROBIOLOGY
  * FORENSIC MEDICINE
  * COMMUNITY MEDICINE
  * GENERAL MEDICINE
  * PEDIATRIC
  * TB AND CHEST
  * SKIN & V D
  * PSYCHIATRY
  * GENERAL SURGERY
  * ORTHOPEDICS
  * ENT
  * OPHTHALMOLOGY
  * OBG
  * ANESTHESIA
  * RADIOLOGY
  * DENTISTRY
  
  ## Access
  
  Kalaburagi is well connected by air, railway lines and roads. It is an important rail head on the Central Southern Railway zone line connecting to Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi and Hyderabad.
  
  It is well connected by National Highways with Bangalore and Hyderabad, which are 610 kilometres (380 mi) and 225 kilometres (140 mi) away respectively, from Kalaburagi. Road distances to other cities within the state are: Basavakalyan-80 kilometres (50 mi), Bidar -120 kilometres (75 mi), Raichur - 155 kilometres (96 mi) and Bijapur - 160 kilometres (99 mi).
  
  Kalaburagi Airport is the nearest airport.
  
  