The Christian Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana is an educational and research institution of an all India character celebrating 131 years of establishment. The Medical Missionary work was started in Ludhiana in the year 1881 by the Greenfield sisters, Miss Martha Rose and Miss Kay Greenfield. Dr. Edith Mary Brown joined them in 1893 and in 1894 the North Indian School of Medicine for Christian Women was started by Dr. Edith Mary Brown and her colleagues. The period from 1894 to 1952 has been an epoch making era which saw the landmark of development from its beginning as a School of Medicine for Christian Women to Women’s Christian Medical College until 1952 when the name was changed to Christian Medical College to enable it to admit both men and women students for the upgraded MBBS course which came into effect for its first admission from 1953. The Medical School granted LSMF diploma till 1952. Since the College was upgraded to M.B.B.S in 1953, more than 2000 candidates have graduated and are serving in different parts of India & the world.

CMC has a unique distinction in India in health professional education (HPE) now as being the only institute having National Medical Commission (NMC), Nodal centre fof Faculty development (from 2009); FAIMER Regional Institute (from 2006) and AMEE centre under Dept of Medical education. DOME trained >3000 faculty of 60 medical colleges in India in Nodal centre, >300 health professional education (HPE) faculties in FAIMER from South East Asia Countries and hundreds of faculties throughout India in various programs. Being a centre of health profession activities CMC faculty significantly contributed to new competency based UG and PG curricula in and also leading in training faculties. The department of medical education has state of the art facilitates and with its vast networking with health profession institutes, the institute was frontline warrior during COVID times and organized 45 online programs in medical education including two convocations and one international fellowship program. CMC Ludhiana seeks to make a significant contribution to the health standards of all communities of our nation with special emphasis on health care in the rural underserved and unreached areas/communities in India. The major advantage for HPE is that CMCL has 5 constituent colleges on the campus i.e. Medical, dental, Nursing, Physiotherapy and Allied health.

The College maintains 775 Hospital beds. Our national medical and para-medical teaching staff and other staff come from nearly every state in India. The Government of India and Punjab have continued their interest and support in the work and the development of the college and its hospital.

Ludhiana, one of the old-established cities of Punjab, a smart city with a population that has increased during recent years to around 20,00,000 lies 300 km north-west of Delhi. It is situated on the Grand Trunk Road running from the border through to Delhi, and is an important railway junction. Today it is one of the fastest-growing medium industrial centers in India.