Department of General Medicine

“Excellence In Patient Care And Clinical Education"

Overview

The Department of Medicine was established at Sri Devaraj Urs medical college on March 1988 under guidance of Late. Dr. Mohamed Noor Uddin as first HOD with vision of excellence in academics, research and clinical care.

The Department started with 3 post graduates in 1997 and later upgraded to 6 in the year 2003. In 2013, MD general medicine seats increased to 8 per academic year.

Both undergraduate and post graduates are well trained to acquire knowledge and various clinical skills and Department is involved in teaching Allied health science courses- like physiotherapy, dialysis technology.

Department has well trained faculty with rich research experience and actively involved in research projects and completed projects are published in reputed indexed, peer reviewed Journals.

Department actively takes part in managing all category patients of COVID pandemic, promoting awareness in public and conducting training sessions to various health care workers, police personnel and public health workers.

Department actively takes part in all cultural and sports events conducted by the SDUAHER (Sri Devaraj urs academy of higher education and research) and many times adjudged as best cultural Department.

Objectives
  • Recognize the importance of the concerned specialty in the contexts of the health need of the community and the national in the health sector.
  • Practice the specialty concerned ethically and in step with the principles of primary health care.
  • Demonstrate sufficient understanding of the basic sciences relevant to the concerned specialty.
  • Identify social, economic, environmental, biological and emotional determinates of health in a given case, and take them into account while planning therapeutic rehabilitative, preventive and promotive measures/ strategies.
  • Diagnose and manage majority of the conditions in the specialty concerned on the basic of clinical assessment, and appropriately selected and conducted investigations.
  • Plan and advise measures for the prevention and rehabilitation of patients suffering from disease and disability related to the specialty.
  • Demonstrate skills in documentation of individual case details as well as morbidity and mordacity data relevant to the assigned situation,.
  • Play the assigned role in the implementation of national health programs, effectively and responsibly.
  • Function as an effective leader of a health teem engaged in health care, research or training.
Programs
  • Undergraduate Courses
    • Medical: MBBS
      • BPT classes
      • RDT classes
  • Postgraduate Courses
    • MD (General Medicine )
    • Clinico Radiological meet
    • Inter department PG subject Symposium
    • CPC Inter departmental Clinical Meeting
Thrust Areas
    Communicable and non-communicable diseases like
  • Diabetes
  • Tuberculosis
  • Thyroid disorders
  • Acute and chronic kidney diseases
  • Metabolic syndrome
  • Coronary artery diseases
  • Tropical medicine with special interest in atypical manifestation of dengue, malaria, leptospira.
  • Poisoning- suicidal and accidental
  • Snake bite
  • Geriatric Medicine.
  • Genomics – rare disorders.
  • Covid- 19 & its Complications.
Publications
Awards And Achivements
Consultancy projects
CME/Workshop/Webinar

Faculty