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Our Mission …………………………………… The Making of a Basic Doctor

 
  To train the "Basic Doctor" who is a:  
 

   

1.

Care Provider - Who considers the patient holistically as an individual and part of a family and who provides high quality care which is continuous, complete and compassionate within a doctor-patient relationship based on mutual respect and trust.

 

2.

Decision Maker - Who chooses appropriate technology, which enhances patient care, is ethical and cost effective.

 

3.

Communicator - Who is able to promote healthy lifestyle by effective explanation and advocacy, thus empowering individuals groups to improve and protect their health.

 

4.

Manager - Who can work efficiently and harmoniously with individuals and communities.

 

5.

Community leader - Who is able to gain local respect and trust, can reconcile individual action on behalf of the community.

 
     
  These five components make a Basic Doctor a "5-Star Doctor".  
     
  COURSES OFFERED  
 

MBBS:
There is an annual intake of one hundred and fifty students who undergo for four and a half years of full time residential training. During this period they are given dialectic training, practical and make field visits to rural and urban areas. This is followed by one year of Internship training programme.

MD: Community Medicine
This is a three year fulltime course where the student also has to undertake Dissertation work on any topic of his interest under the guidance of a senior Faculty member. At present four students are pursuing this course and two more are expected to join soon.

DPH- Diploma in Public Health
This is a two-year full time course where the student undergoes training similar to that being taught in the degree course except that the course contents and the depth of knowledge regarding Biostatistics and Epidemiology are not as extensive. The field visits and exposure to the health care delivery system in India and the Dissertation work being undertaken is similar.

PGDHHM - Post-graduate Diploma in Hospital and Health Management (IGNOU)
The department is actively involved in conducting the above diploma, which trains health professionals in hospital administration and management of health care delivery

 
     
  POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS AND THEIR DISSERTATION TOPICS  
[A] MD  
 

1.

Dr. S. B. Bhosale - Behavioural Surveillance Survey (BSS) Regarding HIV/AIDS amongst Adolescent School / Junior College students in Pimpri - Chinchwad area, Pune.

2.

Dr. M. V. Vibhute -A study of oral disease among school going children in Alandi (Devachi), Pune.

3.

Dr. H. T. Pandve - A study of Assessment of Self-medication practices in Urban Community.

4.

Dr. R. Thakur - A study of some epidemiological factors in an urban and rural geriatric population.

5.

Dr. (Ms) V. Joshi - A study of prevalence of pre-hypertension among adult population in an urban field practice area of a medical college, at Pune.

 
     
  [B] DPH  
 

1.

Dr. Preeti Bahadure - A study of water treatment plant in Alandi, Pune.

 
     
  ACHIEVEMENTS  
 
1. Dr. J. S. Bhawalkar-

   

(i)

Invited expert to review Graduate and Postgraduate course curriculum for Dr. D. Y. Patil University

 

(ii)

Organised innumerable State and National Conferences including joint collaboration with University of Illinois, USA.

  (iii) Member of the State Human Rights Commission (Adhikar), Govt. of Maharashtra.
 
  2. Col. (Dr.) A. Banerjee -  
 

   

(i)

Awarded Chief of Army Staff Gold Medal for a paper titled, "Information Superhighways and its impact on Command Style and Army Organization," in the year 1997

 

(ii)

Awarded Chief of Army Staff Gold Medal for the best paper titled, "Emerging trends in Information Technology and its effects on Command style and military organizations" for the year 1996-97, while serving as instructor at Officers Training School, AMC Centre and School Lucknow

 

(iii)

Awarded the Senior Col. Comdt. and DGAFMS award 2003 for the paper titled "Tribal malaria and its effects on AF Station Amla and surrounding areas: an epidemiological study." Feb 2003, Armed Forces Medical Research Conference

 

(iv)

Awarded best published paper award for paper titled "Outbreak of Viral Hepatitis E among military recruits". Feb 2006 at the Armed Forces Medical Research Conference at AFMC Pune

 

(v)

Awarded the Dr G C Boral Award for the best published paper in Industrial Psychiatry in April 2007

 
     
  3. Col. (Dr.) S. L. Jadhav-  
 

   

(i)

Adviser to the Government of Botswana, Africa from 1987 to 1990.

 
     
  4. Dr. Ravi Gupta-  
 

   

(i)

WHO National Consultant for NLEP

 

(ii)

Fellow for International Teaching Seminar in Cardiovascular Epidemiology,
Susono, Japan

 

(iii)

Invited Expert to evaluate Original articles / Research papers, Case studies by Research Society of B. J. Medical College, Pune for their "Medical Journal of Western India".

 
     
  STUDENT'S ACHIEVEMENTS  
 

   

(a)

IPHA Quiz -

   

 

 

The college team, Ms. Aditi Shide & Ms. Donna Mathew, both III Yr MBBS students - Winners of the State level Indian Public Health Association -
WHO DAY (7th April) Quiz - 2006.

 

(b)

Ms. Himika Basu, II Yr MBBS student -

 

 

For winning and co-authoring the Dr G C Boral Award for the best published paper in Industrial Psychiatry in April 2007.

 

(c)

Ms. Alisha Jagga, II Yr MBBS student -

 

 

For getting her paper " A survey for nutritional disorders in a school in Pimpri, Pune" published in the First National Conference held by the Moving Academy of Medicine and Biomedicine at Pune from 5-8th October, 2006.

 
     
   
 
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- Hippocratic oath.

 
     
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