OPHTHALMOLOGY

OPHTHALMOLOGY

INFRASTRUCTURE :

  • Clinical Demonstration Room – 1
  • Size – 15’x20’, Capacity – 30
  • Audio-visual equipment available – LCD Projector, Digital video Camera, Slide Projector,
  • Photo phone overhead Projector

Departmental Library-cum Seminar Room is available

  • Size – 25’x30’  , Capacity – 25
  • Number of Books – 200
  • Journals – available from central library
  • Research Laboratory – Under the control of  Prof & H.O.D Pathology
  • Undergraduate students participate in research – ICMR STS

Office accommodation –

  • Professor and HOD – 1 room
  • Non-teaching and Clerical staff – 1 room

TEACHING HOSPITAL:

  • Number of Teaching Beds – 100, Number of Units – 3,
  • Number of beds per unit – 40, 30, 30
  • Indoor admissions (2014-2015) – 815
  • Average Bed occupancy per day – 67%
  • Intensive care unit – No individual ICU (Central 20 Bedded ICU)

MAJOR EQUIPMENT AVALIABLE IN THE DEPARTMENT :

  • Slit lamp microscope-3,
  • A. Scan Biometry-5,
  • Nd-Yag Laser-1,
  • Operating Miscroscope-5,
  • Autorefractometer-1.

OUT-PATIENT DEPARTMENT:

  • Arrangement for clinical instructions to student is available in the OPD
  • Average Daily OPD Attendance –  Old Patients – 8, New Patients – 47

TEACHING AND TRAINING FACILITIES :

  • In OPD – Clinical demonstration room – 1
  • Number of rooms in the OPD for seeing the patients by various faculty members and resident staff  – 8
  • In-door- Bedside teaching is done
  • Clinical demonstration room/seminar room – 1

FACILITIES AVAILABLE IN OUT-PATIENT DEPARTMENT :

  • Refraction room, Dark room, Dressing room

OPERATION THEATRE UNIT:

  • Operation theatres – 2
  • Equipment: (along with anesthesia equipment)
  • Piped O2 and N2O system, Boyle’s apparatus with O2 & N2O cylinder-15, M.P. Monitor-18, S.P. Monitor, Oxymeter-13, OT light, OT table, Capnometer-4, Cardiomonitor-2, Difibrilator-2, Ventilator-6, Anaesthesia Workstation -2, BP instruments-5, Suction machine-20
  • Facilities available in each O.T. unit – Waiting room for patients, soiled linen room, sterilization room, nurses duty room, surgeons & anesthetists rooms, store room, washing room for surgeons & assistants, students washing up and dressing up room – available
  • Arrangement of Anesthesia – Pre and post-anaesthetic care is available
  • Nature of anesthesia used – GA/LA
  • Pre-operative ward (no. of beds) – 110, Post-operative ward (no. of beds) – 06
  • Resuscitation facilities and special equipments are available
  • Number of surgeries performed during 2014-2015 -2590(major), 522(minor)

TEACHING PROGRAMME:

  • Curriculum of studies – as prescribed by MCI

Methodology:

  • Total of clinical postings monthly in groups of 25 on rotation basis for 7 days
  • Didactic Lectures – As per routine is prepared by the Dean and Principal
  • Demonstration – 30, Tutorials – 30, Seminars conducted during the year – 60
  • Practicals – 30, Duration of operation theatre postings – daily
  • Bedside Clinics – Daily in different units
  • Number of hours a student spend daily at the wards for clerkship – 3hrs/day
  • Average Number of students posted at a time for indoor OPD postings – 25
  • Students write case histories in a prescribed book that are corrected by allotted faculty
  • Students taken for Post Graduation – Yes