T.D. Medical College is situated in the suburban area of Vandanam, in Alappuzha district of Kerala State, South India.T.D. stand for Thirumala Devaswom, which in Sanskrit means belonging to the Lord of Thirumala, since this medical college was started in 1963 under the patronage of the T.D. Temple at Anantha Narayana Puram of Alappuzha. Initially the management of the college was done by the Kerala Cultural & Educational Society. It was later brought under a trust called “T.D. Medical College Trust”, which was headed by the President of the Thirumala Devaswom. The President of the Thirumala Devaswom was Sri. K Nagendra Prabhu and Secretary Sri. N Venkiteswara Prabhu. The day-to-day administration of the college was done by the T.D. Medical College Administrative Council. A total of 145 acres of land was purchased at Vandanam, in the coastal belt for the future development of the college campus, to include the hospitals, hostels, residential quarters.
The construction of the building started with the foundation stone laying ceremony by R. Sankar, Chief Minister of Kerala on March 6, 1963 and the classes started on August 1963. Kerala Government took over the management of the institution from 17 October 1967 for a period of five years initially,and then the college became vested with theGovernment of Kerala from 17 October 1972 and Government order No.G.O.M.S.263/73/HD dt. 23 October 1973 was issued accordingly. Thus this became the 4th Government Medical College in the state. The number of seats for the M.B.B.S course in T.D. Medical College, Alappuzha was 50 to begin with. It was raised to 100 in 1967. But as per the recommendation of the Indian Medical Council, the number was again reduced to 80 in 1973. It was again raised to 100 as per the recommendation of the Indian Medical Council in 1979. Now the number of seats has raised to 150 from the academic year 2007 onwards. Post Graduate Course in Medicine and Surgery (2 seats each) were started in the year 1982-83 and now there is PG course in almost all departments
In 1967 when the Government temporarily took over the management of the medical college there were only two wings of the college building in the ground floor .The central portion housing the library in the ground floor and the auditorium in the first floor were constructed later by 1971. Initially the Medical college hospital was functioning in the General Hospital in Alappuzha town. The regulations of the Medical Council of India demands the existence of Collegiate Hospital in Medical College Campus itself. As part of the plan for shifting the Medical College Hospital to the College Campus, the following five departments were shifted to the newly constructed hospital building at Neerkunnam near Vandanam, on 25 February 1991: Psychiatry, Dermatology & Venereology, Radiotherapy, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Dentistry.
In 2005, the Pediatrics department was shifted to the newly constructed A & B block of Medical College Hospital Complex, Vandanam. In January 2007, Medicine and allied specialties have been shifted to new blocks at new hospital complex. After this, shifting process has been achieved tremendous pace. Within a span of 3 years, construction of three major blocks viz. C&F block, J1, J2,J3 diagnostic blocks and Surgical K blocks have been completed. On 12 January 2010, the Chief Minister Sri V S Achuthanandan finally proclaimed that the shifting of the Medical College Hospital from Alappuzha to Vandanam was completed. And now, entire hospital departments are occupying a floor area of about 28,000 sq. metre and it is situated in area of around 60 acres of land. Now the college and hospital are situated in a campus having an area of 162 acres and there is sufficient space for all types of future developments and there is a huge scope for developing this college as a Centre of Excellence in various fields of Modern Medicine.
