Shri B M Patil Medical College, Hospital & Research Centre, Bijapur was established in 1910, by Vachana Pitamaha Dr.P.G. Halakatti under BLDE Association. The association started Engineering College, Pharmacy College, Nursing College and the Medical College, along with its own 1000 bed teaching hospital first of its kind in the country. The association sponsors and runs 75 institutions in both rural and urban areas of Bijapur and Bagalkot districts. The spectrum covers primary schools, high schools, pre-university colleges, degree colleges in faculties of Arts, Science, Commerce, Law, Management, Education Science, Fine arts, Pharmacy, Nursing, Nursery, Sericulture, Engineering & Polytechnics, Medical sciences with Post graduate courses and sponsors the BLDE University
The Medical College and Hospital are situated adjacent to each other on a campus sprawling over 45 acres of land, in the heart of the city. The campus has beautiful landscaped gardens and black stone buildings of old world charm, which are well ventilated and illuminated.
Under Graduate:- M.B.B.S - [ Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery ]
Post Graduate:- MCh - Urology
- MD/MS - Ophthalmology
- MD/MS Anatomy
- MD/MS - Obstetrtics & Gynaecology
- MS - General Surgery
- MS - ENT
- MS - Orthopaedics
- MD - Radio Diagnosis/Radiology
- MD - Anaesthesiology
- MD - Bio-Chemistry
- MD - Microbiology
- MD - Paediatrics
- MD - Pathology
- MD - Dermatology , Venereology & Leprosy
- MD - Pharmacology
- MD - Physiology
- MD - Social & Preventive Medicine / Community Medicine
- MD General Medicine
Post Graduate Diploma:- Diploma in Anesthesia
- Diploma in Child Health
- Diploma in Clinical Pathology
- Diploma in Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Diploma in Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
- Diploma in Orthopaedics