MEDICINE

• About Department

• Existing Staff Detail (All current Faculties and Resident)

• ART (Anti retroviral therapy) center

• Unit-wise Staff Distribution

• Department Time Table

• Publications

• Awards and Achievements

• Free Access Journal List

About Department

The Department of MEDICINE, Medical College Baroda provides tertiary level care to patients with a multitude of medical problems, across the range of internal medicine and its various subspecialities.

The department is recognized by the Medical Council of India ; at present NATIONAL MEDICAL COMMISSION (NMC)for undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Internal Medicine.

The outpatient department operates from OPD-18 located on the ground floor on the common OPD building. The OPD includes a daily general medical OPD besides various speciality clinics viz. cardiology, neurology, and diabetic clinic running on designated days in a week. The ART (Anti retroviral therapy ) center also via OPD 26.

The indoor admissions are made to wards , located at NEW TRAUMA CENTRE building Ground plus six floors. through 6 males and 6 female wards.The department receives patient referral from nearing districts of central and south Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan.

The indoor facility of the department also includes specially designated Intensive Care Units- both medical (MICU) 20 beds and cardiac (ICCU)- 12 bedded each. The units are having state-of-the-art ventilators, both invasive and non invasive, multipara cardiac monitors, and invasive hemodynamic monitoring, defibrillators, blood gas analysers and the like.

A separate Nephrology unit has facilities for both hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis round the clock. The medical service also extends to the trauma center, where emergency medical patients are treated, as also in emergency ward(ward 20), a 15-bedded intensive therapy unit.

Both the ICCU and MICU would be shifting to the newly constructed building near the physiotherapy college known as the ‘Superspeciality Building’.

"Separate isolation ward for management of patients of highly communicable diseases( like e.g. Swine flu ) is available."

Existing Staff Detail (All current Faculties and Resident)

Non Teaching Staff

RESIDENTS

ART (Anti retroviral therapy) centre:

The ART centre is run by the department of medicine since 21st January, 2009 in OPD 26 on the first floor of the common OPD building. Around 5798 patients are enrolled in the centre, one of the largest in Gujarat. Dr Mahendra Parmar, Professor, is presently working as the Nodal Officer of the ART centre. ART centre has average daily OPD of about 270 patients .

Treatment centre for Hepatitis B and Hepatitic C is also functional under ART centre with all antiviral medicines.

DIALYSIS UNIT
Dialysis unit at SSG Hospital under department of Medicine is functional since 1991.Presently there are 11 hemodialysis machines in the unit with average 20 dialysis sessions per day

UNIT-WISE STAFF DISTRIBUTION

  Department Time Table

Under Graduate
( Theory Lectures )

CLINICAL
1) Bedside teaching and demonstration of clinical signs and case presentation in wards
- Time: 8:00 to 9:00 am – History taking and self learning
- 9:00 to 10:00 am – Bedside lecture by resident doctor
- 10:00 to 11:00am - Bedside lecture by consultant

2) Term Posting - Course

3) Practical examination is taken at the end of each clinical term and internals are calculated based on these marks.
4) Under graduate students have to fulfill 80% criteria of presence for them to qualify to appear for Final MBBS Exams.
5) 1st internal theory exam is taken at the end of IIIrd clinical theory lecture schedule (term)
- Preliminary theory exam is taken at the end of Vth theory lecture term/ schedule. (just before Part-2 Final MBBS Exam)
- Internal marks are calculated on the bases of these theory exams.
 

Post Graduate Teaching
• Teaching Schedule
1) Case presentation of common clinical cases on Monday 4:00 to 5:00 pm.
2) Two Case presentations of unusual and rare cases on Thursday 4:00 to 5:00 pm.
3) Assignment presentation on Wednesday between 4:00 to 5:00 pm.
4) Bed side clinical teaching during morning ward rounds
5) Every PG is allotted a Topic- for thesis on which work is started after clearance from IECHR submitted before final exam.
6) Final exams of the PGs, are taken at the End of 3 years, which comprises of both theory exam (4 papers) and practical exams.

PG  Clinical Posting

1) Ist year- 6 Months in male and female wards by rotation.
2) IInd year- Posted in Neurology/Nephrology, ICU and ICCU for 4 months each by rotation. Posted in casualty on Emergency day.
3) IIIrd year- Posted in male and female wards by rotation.
• Attend OPD and specialty clinics on their respective days.
• Attend medical camps in rural and urban areas.

PUBLICATIONS FROM DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE (LAST 1 YEAR)

1. A study of prevalence of diabetic Nephropnthly in recently detected cases of type-2 Diabetes mellitus with special emphebis on hypertension, hyperdwles terolemia and obesity International journal of Advances in medicine (IJAM) March- April 2018 vol-5 Issue-2 page -351-355. Dr. Vitan Patel, Dr. Minal Shastri, Dr. Nisha Gaur, Dr. Prutha Jinwala, Dr. Abhishek Kadam.

2. Acute Viral Hepatitis and its associationwith Lipid Profile. International Journal of Scientific Research.Vol 7/ Issue2/ Feb 2018. Jaya Pathak, Nibha Jain, Iti Parikh.

3. Cerebrospinal Fluid C-reactive Protein and Adenosine Deaminase levels in the differential diagnosis of Meningitis in Adults. IJCMR Vol 5/ Issue 3/ March 2018. Jaya Pathak, Smit Seth , Zeal Thakkar

4. Gall Bladder Wall thickness as a Marker of Portal Hypertension in Patients of Alcoholic Cirrhosis of Liver. Int J Res Med. 2017;6(4):52-58. Jaya Pathak, Shivangi Gharia, Zeal Thakkar

5. Clinical Profile of patients of Alcoholic Cirrhosis of Liver in a tertiary Care Hospital of Gujarat. IJSR Vol 7/ Issue 1/ Jan 2018. Jaya Pathak, Shivangi Gharia, Kesar Prajapati.

6. Dysnatremia in cardiac failure. International journal of medicine research vol 3/issue 2/april 2018/page 93-96. Aeshal parmar, rupal dosi, r raghapriya

7. Obesity markers and its association with end-organ dysfunctions among patients with metabolic syndrome in Western India, Original article,International Journal of Research in Medicine July-September2017Volume 6 Issue 4;4-8. Gandhi Archana U, Shrivastava P., Patel S. V, Joshi C. C.

8. Cardiac Autonomic Neuropathy In Relation To Cardiovascular Reflex Tests and QTc Prolongation In Diabetes Mellitus, Original article,National journal of integrated research in Medicine July-August 2017; 8(4): 68-72. Gandhi Archana U, Patel Hiren P, Patel SangitaV, Kadam Abhishek Y, ParmarVidhi M

9. A study of changes in lead avr in acute coronary syndrome. International journal of medicine research. Vol 3/ issue 2/ april 2018/page32-34. Ayush Jain, Mahendra Parmar

10. A study of mean platelet volume in ischemic Cerebrovascular stroke.International Journal of Advances in Medicine.vol 5/ issue 2/march-april 2018.Vitan Patel, Mahendra Parmar, Kinjal Shah, Rishikesh Joshi.

11. Glycemic status at the time of presentation in acute organophosphorous poisoning and its correlation with severity and clinical outcome,JAPI,Original articleAugust 2018,volume66,page18-22. R.Raghapriya,Rupal V Dosi,Aeshal Parmar
12. Study of clinical profile of diabetic peripheral neuropathy in type-2 diabetes mellitus. Dr. Smita K. Tivedi, Dr. Krupa Pathak, Dr. Abhishek Kadam Internation Journal of Medicine research.ISSN: 2455-7404, Vol.3; Issue-4; October 2018; Page No. 09-13.

13. Clinical profile and outcome in critically ill patients with respiratory failure on invasive ventilator. Shastri Minal, Varsha Patel, Pandya Karan, Banker Sachi, Ashish International Journal of Medicine Research ISSN 2455-1404 vol-3 issue-4 Oct 2018 page 25-30.

14. Non invasive measurement of Right ventricular function in Pulmonary Hypertension: Study from A tertiary care center in Gujarat. Dr. Smita Trivedi, Dr. Thanky Aditi, Dr. Gandhi Archana U. NJIRM,Vol.9 (6). No. Dec 2018 eISSN:0975-9840 pLSSN-2230-9969.

15. Clinical and etiological profile of heart failure. Dr. Krupa Pathak, Dr. Bansary Mistry, Dr. Smita K. Trivedi. Vol.6 No. 2, 2019 International Journal of Advances in Medicine. IJAM 20191156.

Awards

CME, ACHIEVEMENT AND AWARDS OF STUDENTS OF MEDICAL DEPARTMENT IN LAST 5 YRS

Free Access Journal List

1. Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology
2. Annals of Thoracic Medicine
3. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health
4. British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research
5. Gujarat Medical Journal
6. Indian Dermatology Online Journal
7. Indian Journal of Allergy Asthma and Immunology
8. Indian Journal of Clinical Practice
9. Indian Journal of Community Medicine
10. Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine
11. Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
12. Indian Journal of Gastroenterology
13. Indian Journal of Human Genetics
14. Indian Journal of Nephrology
15. Indian Journal of Occupational and Enviornmental Medicine
16. Indian Journal of Tuberculosis
17. International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health
18. Journal of Indian Rheumatology Association
19. Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
20. Journal of the Association of Physicians of India
21. Medical Journal Armed Forces India
22. Scholars' Research Journal
23. The Indian Journal of Chest Diseases and Allied Sciences
24. Asian Journal of Transfusion Science
25. Indian Journal of Medical Research
26. Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging
27. Indian Journal of Medical Research
28. International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries
29. Open Tropical Medicine Journal
30. Hematology online (ASH)
31. The Internet Journal of Gastroenterology
32. Circulation Journal
33. Open Cardiovascular Medicine Journal
34. BMC Neurology
35. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
36. The Internet Journal of Neurology
37. Neurology India
38. Journal of Medicine