Goa Medical College (GMC) is a medical college and hospital in Goa, India. It was built during the Portuguese rule in 1842 as the Escola Médico-Cirúrgica de (Nova) Goa (Medical-Surgical School of Goa). It is one of the oldest medical colleges in Asia teaching medicine. JIPMER in 1823, Calcutta Medical College in 1835 and Stanley Medical College in 1838 are India's three older medical colleges. These were built by the erstwhile British Raj.