K S Hegde Medical Academy Mangalore

The Institute is attached to the KS Hegde Hospital so adequate infrastructural support is available for patients and student training. KS Hegde Medical Academy is now a constituent unit of the Nitte University and is recognised by the Medical Council of India, Government of India. KS HEMA has signed an agreement of co-operation with the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, USA for co-operation in research on diseases like malaria and tuberculosis. 

The college has established a state-of-the-art regional research centre on communciable diseases in collaboration with the University of Texas Health Sciences, on the campus. The Institute also has a staff exchange and training programme with Maimonides Hospital, Brooklyn, USA.

KS Hegde Medical Academy is located at Deralakatte, a picturesque village about 12 kms from Mangalore. The spacious interiors of the college building of the K S Hegde Medical Academy and the quiet surroundings provide an ideal atmosphere for learning. The ground floor, has the Departments of Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry and their respective laboratories, the dissection hall and the anatomy museum.

The Medical Sciences Complex houses the A B Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences & its Dental Speciality Hospital, and the KS Hegde Hospital. The college building houses pre-clinical and para-clinical departments, teaching and research laboratories and the administrative offices.