Department of General Medicine

General Medicine

General Medicine

Department of medicine is a major department of GSL. It has important functions of indoor and outdoor patient care, teaching of undergraduate students, medical research & health education of masses. Undergraduate education was started in 2002.
  Since its establishment in 2002 it has been training medical students and has thus produced excellent medical care givers for the country.


Mission

Mission

    To encourage development of an attitude of compassion and empathy for human suffering, to create an academic atmosphere conducive to assimilation of scientific knowledge, and to encourage logical application of the knowledge to ameliorate the suffering of society.

Department Highlights

Department Highlights


The department is well equipped with teaching &learning resources as per the guidelines of Medical Council of India for undergraduate course that is being conducted. We are placed at spacious OPD complex on the ground floor. There are consultation rooms for individual faculties, seminar rooms, departmental museum, research lab and a well stocked departmental library.
Teaching and learning experience is enhanced with the help of teaching aids like OHP & LCD projector. The department houses Museum for undergraduate training with specimens, charts, booklets, models etc. classified as per the sections in Medicine. We have a departmental library .It is updated with latest edition of books as and when published. We have a well equipped departmental research lab with internet facility and the equipments kept are used for research purposes.
The department is having 190 bedded male/female medicine wards (good number of outdoor & indoor of patients flow (80% to 85% bed occupancy) for training and research. The college has well established critical care units as a part of Medicine department. These critical care units are equipped with ultramodern multi-para monitors, ventilators, ABG-analyzers ,temporary-pace makers & haemodialysers. The Department has high-tech diagnostic facilities in non invasive cardiology like 2D-ECHO, TMT-stress ECG, Holter (24 hour ECG )and Ambulatory BP monitor .We have state of the art flexible Fibro-optic Bronchoscope & computerized PFT machine for diagnosis of respiratory disorders. We also provide diagnostic services in field of neurology with a computerized EEG machine.

Extensional activities in last 5 years

Extensional activities in last 5 years

Mini and multidiagnostic medical camps are held on regular basis. Health education and free consultation facilities are provided to the villagers.

Research Activities

Research Activities

The department of General Medicine is actively encouraging research work actively participating in CME’s and Conferences.
In addition to research in local areas which are undertaken by faculty and undergraduate students are also encouraged to conduct ICMR projects.

Thrust Areas

Thrust Area

o Tropical diseases
o Local medical problems like snakebites
o Organophosphorus poisoning
o Rheumatic heart diseases
o Pulmonary tuberculosis
o Nutritional Anaemia.
o Medical emergencies in obstetrics
o Training undergraduate students for ICMR scholarships
o Sr.Residents actively participate in weekly seminars and participating in state of national conferences under the API (Associations of Physicians of India)
o Asst.Professors, Assoc.Professors and Professors along with Sr.Resident are participating in state and national conferences of API – presenting free papers for the conferences
o Some faculty members participated in National & International Conference of Medical Education
o Many faculty members are actively participating in the activities of ME cell (Medical Education Cell) of GSLMC.
o All the faculty members are participating in the academic sessions of the Academy of Medical Sciences, GSL Medical College.
o Same of the faculty members and Sr.Residents are actively participating CME’s conducted by IMA, Rajahmundry branch and critical care society, Rajahmundry branch.

Future plans

Future plans

Guest lecturers from various institutes to get both UG’s more conversant with resent advances in Medicine.
To nurture spirit of inquiry and scientific temper by promoting research & Publication to connect with emerging trends.
Comprehensive appropriate, Innovative, need based teaching, learning and evaluation programs that Include student centered, problem based, Community oriented Clinical, Laboratory & project based modules
Emphasis on continual improvement & spirit of life-long learning through regular Faculty Development Programs. (For e.g. clinical meetings, medical audits, Guest lectures, national & international workshops and Conferences within the campus and through deputation to other Colleges & Universities.)