Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore was started in 1955, utilizing the clinical facilities of the govt. Wenlock Hospital and Government girl Goschen Hospital. In 1961, the pre-clinical section was started in Mangalore.

The Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore became associate freelance unit in 1977. aside from the 2 Government hospitals, there's a teaching hospital connected to the faculty viz., the KMC Hospital, Attavar, established in 1992 with a bed strength of five hundred.The infrastructural facilities area unit love international standards with seven massive cool lecture halls fitted with trendy audio-visual teaching aids together with multi-media projectors and a contemporary, absolutely cool library with a spaciousness of regarding five hundred, and with net facility. The library has over ten,000 books and subscribes to over 350 journals annually.

In the year 2001, Centre for Basic Sciences was started at Bejai for the primary year students. aside from the Departments of Anatomy, Physiology and organic chemistry, there area unit 2 lecture halls of capability 250 every. each girls and boys hostels area unit situated among the 

Basic Sciences advanced for the primary year students. The Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore provides hostel accommodation for its students in 9 hostels. Out of those 5 area unit girls hostels. there's additionally a Medical Education Unit that conducts Orientation program for college students, interns and postgraduates, and additionally provides resource material for the teaching college members.