St John's Medical College (Department of Physiotherapy) was started as a part of the Department of Orthopedics in 1998. It was later combined with the Department of PMR as part of the multidisciplinary team in 1999. It has been a long journey since then and at the end of 18 years, it was acknowledged as an autonomous department in December 2016. We have moved ahead by starting the Physiotherapy degree course in the year 2016, under Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka. We are proud to announce that we are one of the pioneer referral centers for Physiotherapy in the South Zone of India.
The St. John’s Medical College Hospital was conceived as the cradle of clinical learning for all our graduates and postgraduates affiliated to our institutes across the health fields of medicine, nursing, paraclinical and allied health. This professional education can only occur by providing learning experiences that are academically sound, holistic, comprehensive and professionally delivered by our physicians who are also faculty. The hospital began functioning on the 8th December, 1975, and has steadily grown from a few hundred beds and units to over 40 full-fledged departments providing care and treatment services, both specialty and super specialty. By 2018 we would have added 600 beds to continue to be one of the largest health care facilities under one roof in Bengaluru with 2000 bed strength.