Southern Railway Headquarters Hospital, Perambur, is one of the oldest institutions in the country where DNB courses started during the 1980s. At present 09 broad specialties and 2 superspeciality departments offer DNB Degree courses. The courses offered in the institution and the seats provided in the various specialties are as follows.

Subject Post MBBS seats per year Post Diploma seats per year
Anesthesia 3 2
ENT 1 1
General Medicine 4 0
General Surgery 3 0
OBG 2 2
Ophthalmology 1 1
Orthopaedics 2 1
Pediatrics 2 2
Pathology 1 1
Super Specialty Post MD/ MS seats per year
Cardiology 2
CTVS 1