DCMS is recognized by the Medical Council of India, and affiliated to the Kaloji Narayan Rao University of Health Sciences of the State of Telangana. DCMS was started in the year 1984 (with an intake of 100 M.B;B.S. seats) by the Late Aljhaj Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi—who was also Member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly for 22 years before serving as Member of Parliament for the next 20 years. It was the first medical college for Muslim Minorities in India, and the first Minority medical college in the erstwhile state of undivided Andhra Pradesh.