About
Department of Orthopaedics was established in 2001. It was first headed by Dr. Kamal Swarn for undergraduate course (MBBS). Department has been educating MBBS, BPT, OT Technicians, X-Ray Technicians since its time of inception. Department had successfully run DNB Orthopaedics from 2007 to 2010 under affiliation of National Board of Examination. In 2010 Department has been given permission to start postgraduate course in Orthopaedics with 02 seats by MCI, which have been further recognized in 2017 and number of postgraduates was increased from 02 to 05 seats.
Presently department is educating 100 MBBS students as a subsidiary of surgery and 15 postgraduates. The state of art infrastructure and a team of expert doctors under the headship of Prof. Parwej Ahmed enable’s the department to undertake challenging surgeries and cater to referrals from whole of western UP, Haryana and UK.
The department has 3 Professors, 4 Assistant Professors, 3 Senior Residents providing services to the patients. Fully equipped surgical ICU backup and about 100 paramedical staff enables excellent operative care. A full-fledged rehabilitation team of Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy and Naturopathy & Yogic Sciences of Subharti Medical College supports the department and make it exceptional in total care of Orthopaedic patients. The department of Orthopaedics is fully equipped in the areas of joint replacement (Hip, Knee, Shoulder and Elbow), Sport medicine and Arthroscopy, Spine surgery, Pediatric Orthopaedics, Deformity corrective surgeries and Trauma.
Department is enriched with excellent infrastructure with 02 OPD rooms, 01 specialty OPD, 02 plaster rooms, 01 dressing room and 01 minor OT in OPD block. : In terms of equipment there are 03 dedicated well equipped operation theaters with C-arms (01 Modular operation theater), sets for fracture management, spine surgeries and joint replacements, Arthroscopy sets.
Orthopaedic department of Subharti Medical College, is active in organizing workshops and training sessions. Some of the recently organized were State level Hands on workshops on :
- UPOA PGICL course in collaboration with Meerut Orthopaedic club in 2008.
- Open Wedge High tibial osteotomy (on bone saw models) in UPORTHOCON 2016.
- Shoulder Arthroscopy (with live surgery on Bankart’s repair and cadaveric hands on workshop) in UPORTHOCON 2016.
- A two days National conference and Hands on workshop on usage of “Ilizarov and JESS in Orthopaedics” was conducted by Meerut Orthopaedic Club in association with the Department of Orthopaedics, Subharti Medical College, Meerut in 2019.
Facilities
Infrastructure Of Department Of Orthopaedics
UG Classrooms – 5
Departmental Library cum Seminar room – 1
Skills Lab – 1
OPD rooms – 02
Specialty OPD - 01,
Plaster rooms - 02,
Dressing room - 01
Minor OT in OPD block - 01.
Operation theaters – 03
The department consists of :
1. OPD complex
2. Indoor Department of Orthopaedics
3. Male Orthopaedic Ward
4. Female Orthopaedic Ward
5. Main OT complex including state of the art modular OT
6. Emergency ward & Casualty OT
The infrastructure has been designed as per norms specified by Medical Council of India:
OPD
• Reception area with registration counter
• Patients’ waiting area
• Two main General OPDs with four cubicles for patient examination functioning from 8:00am to 4:00pm
• One specialty OPD- conducting 3 OPDs per week from 11:00am to 1:00 pm
• One Plaster room and plaster cutting room-equipped with plaster equipment for application and removal and a Watson-Jone’s fracture casting table with round the clock water supply
• One minor OT with provision for autoclaving, change area, wash area and dressing storage
• One dressing room
Speciality OPD :
SPECIALTY CLINICS
(Time: 11:00 to 1:00pm) |
Day |
Name of Specialty Clinic |
Tuesday |
Arthritis Clinic |
Wednesday |
Spine Clinic |
Thursday |
Congenital and Developmental Diseases Clinic |
The concept of specialty OPD is to select cases of clinical and research interest and to create a data base by prospective and retrospective follow up. The specialty clinics are not unit specific and the idea is to facilitate a faculty member to interact in more than one field of interest for research and publications. We intend to collaborate with other Institutions to make our department a support centre to study the common regional Orthopaedic problems and to create a registry for our part of the State. The documentation is under process and we have adopted Hospital data system for documentation. Digitalization, update related to clinical material is already in practice.
Indoor Department of Orthopaedics :
The indoor department of Orthopaedics is the administrative and undergraduate and postgraduate teaching block and is well connected and coordinated with Department of Radiology and Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation.
• Teaching room -Has capacity to accommodate 50 individuals. Has LCD and overhead projector, black-boards, bone sets and a collection of teaching X-rays along with orthotics and supports, implants and instrument sets for teaching.
• Departmental Library -The library is large with seating facilities and an exhaustive collection of book titles with latest editions of text-books and specialty Orthopaedics titles and reputed Journals of both Indian and Foreign titles, many of them from 1985 till date with complete sets of prominent journals of last three years. Facilities of conventional teaching blackboard teaching and modern computer based multimedia teaching like overhead projection and LCD projection are available in the library separately from the teaching room.
• Internet access - Facilities for internet access through web based data card and annual subscription of “Orthopaedic Knowledge Online” with free access to indexed journals and e- journals are available in the computer and record cubicle adjacent to the library. The computer is being used for research documentation. This facility is over and above the central station of computer and internet terminals available in the College administrative block.
• Computer and record room - For clinical and academic documentation and projected forthcoming thesis work after approval of the postgraduate course in the department by MCI.
• Museum – The museum has teaching bone models and specimens, the volume of which is being builtup. An archive of X-ray collection of patients treated in our wards is being maintained for research and shall form a rich data base. The X-Rays are in the constant process of being cataloged and digitalised.
The admissions consists of a wide variety of Orthopaedics patients including trauma, congenital and developmental Orthopaedic disorders, spinal diseases, paralytic diseases, joint diseases and cases of clinical interest for teaching and demonstration.