Sri Siddhartha Medical College (SSMC) was started in the year 1988 by Sri Siddhartha Educational Society The Medical College and hospital is located in the outskirts of Tumkur city 6 km from the city amidst green field in a vast campus of 350 acres of the side of Bangalore Honnavar national highway and

The college was inaugurated by the then Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi. After the Medical Council of India and the then Karnataka state government run under the Chief Minister Ramakrishna Hegde had declined the permission to set up the college, the Supreme Court of India had given the signal to go ahead in mid-1989. Dr. Jagdish Chaturvedi, an ENT specialist and a serial medtech innovator completed his undergraduate studies from this institute.

Tumkur, Karnataka