Government Medical College & Hospital is affiliated to Punjab University. The college offers Under Graduate course. College provides opportunity of a career in medicine to many promising students who were denied of this opportunity because of domicile restrictions imposed by the states in which these colleges are located. College aim is to fulfill the glaring deficiency of an undergraduate Medical College in the Union Territory of Chandigarh which offers the best educational facilities in all other fields. The Government Medical College will be attached to the teaching hospital.