The Postgraduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM) (UOC)

The Ceylon Medical College, established in 1870 during the British occupation, marking the beginning of a formal system of ‘western’ medical education in Sri Lanka, known then as Ceylon. Seventy years later in 1942 the Ceylon Medical College became the Faculty of Medicine of the newly established University of Ceylon. There were no formal arrangements for postgraduate medical training or examinations, and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ceylon was focused almost entirely on undergraduates.