Maharshi Devraha Baba Medical College is a government medical college located in Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh, India. The institution is part of Uttar Pradesh's expansion of state-run medical education in eastern districts of the state, and is named after Devraha Baba, a revered ascetic associated with the Deoria region.
| Name | Maharshi Devraha Baba Medical College (Autonomous State Medical College, Deoria) |
|---|---|
| Type | Government medical college |
| Location | Deoria, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| Country | India |
| Named after | Devraha Baba |
The college was established as part of a state policy to set up an autonomous medical college in each district of Uttar Pradesh that did not already have one. Under this scheme, several districts in the Purvanchal region, including Deoria, were sanctioned new medical colleges that function as autonomous state medical colleges affiliated to a state health-sciences or general university and regulated by the National Medical Commission.
The college operates an attached teaching hospital that provides outpatient, inpatient, emergency and specialist services to patients from Deoria and the surrounding districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh, including parts of Kushinagar, Gorakhpur and the Bihar border belt.
The institution offers the undergraduate MBBS programme. Admission to the MBBS course is conducted through the NEET-UG examination, with seat allocation handled by the centralised counselling authority of Uttar Pradesh for state-quota seats and by the central authority for all-India quota seats. The curriculum follows the competency-based undergraduate framework prescribed by the National Medical Commission.
The college is named in honour of Devraha Baba, a yogi who lived for many years on the banks of the Saryu River near Deoria and who is widely venerated in the region. The naming reflects a local cultural association rather than a religious affiliation of the institution.
As a government-run medical college in a predominantly rural and agrarian district, the institution is significant for: