 First the Orissa Medical School was established with a capacity of 20 L.M.P (Licentiate Medical Practitioners) students.It was affiliated to the Bihar and Orissa Medical Examination Board which grantee the LMP Diploma.In 1944, the Orissa Medical School was renamed as Orissa Medical College and Major A.T Anderson, the then Civil Surgeon of Cuttack acted as its first Principal.