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Department of Paediatrics

Started in 1993

Recruitment Rules for Faculty
Contact no.2665253 Extn.2503
Dr. Suksham Jain MD Assistant Professor
Dr. Chandrika Azad MD Assistant Professor
Dr. Deepak Chawla MD Assistant Professor
Dr. Geetanjali Jindal MD Assistant Professor
Dr. Vidushi Mahajan MD Assistant Professor

9 Senior Residents, 10 Junior Residents(Non-PG), PG-JR(MD Paediatric Student 1 per year), Social worker 1

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OUTPATIENT (OPD) DEPTT.

Location : OPD, B-Block, Level-5

          Approximately 30,000 children are seen annually in the OPD.

Facilities :
          Play room  for the children.
          Waiting Area has a facility for TV viewing. Childrens'  films 
          and health education films are played everyday.

Immunization facility : 

Daily from 9.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. and on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday also from 2.00 to 5.00 p.m. All  vaccinations  under UPI programme of Govt. of India are provided free of cost and additional vaccines like Hepatitis B, H Influenza, MMR, Chicken Pox, Hepatitis A, Typhoid, Rubella and combination vaccines are provided at subsidized  rates through the Rotary Immunization facility. Even adults can avail the facility of getting additional vaccines for themselves after getting a hospital registration card.

Immunization Schedule (Click to View)

Special Clinic Services :

Name of the service Days                           Area                                                    Time
*Adolescent Health Clinic, 'YUVA AASTHA'
Free walk in clinic. No Registration Fee required.
All adolescents from 10-19 years of age can avail the services.
Strict confidentiality maintained  		Tuesday,       B-Block, Level I, Room No. 1404,              2 pm  to 5 pm
Pediatrics Cardiac Clinic  Tuesday         B-Block, Level-5, Room No.5210              9 am  to 1 pm
Diabetic clinic  Tuesday        B-Block, Level I, Room No. 1404,             2 pm to 5 pm
Haematology, Immunology Tuesday        B-Block, Level 5, Room No. 5210,            9 am to 1 pm
General Pediatric follow up clinic Wednesday   B-Block, Level-5, Room No.5201,             2 pm to 5 pm   
Pediatric Asthma clinic  Wednesday   B-Block, Level-5, Room No.5210,             2 pm to 5 pm
Nephrology Clinic Wednesday   B-Block, Level-5, Room No.5202,             2 pm to 5 pm
Pediatric Neurology clinic Thursday       B-Block, Level-5, Room No.5210               9 am to 1 pm  
Neonatal follow up clinic  Thursday       B-Block, Level-5, Room No.5210,             2 pm to 5 pm
Pediatric Tuberculosis clinic Friday           B-Block, Level-5, Room No.5210,             9 am to 1 p

Information regarding normal growth & development and the related problems during adolescence Nutrition, Immunization, avoidance of risk taking behavior and how to deal with peer pressure is provided to the clients.
One to one counselling for the adolescence related problems and specialist services are     provided free of cost.

 

Information Education and Counselling (IEC)

Issues related to school performance Depression and suicide in adolescents About  love and relationship
Growing to become a lady Understanding adolescence role of parents Growth and development during adolescence
Plan your carreer Sex pregnency and contraception  

INPATIENT SERVICES

  • 24 hrs Pediatrics emergency services:   12 bedded with ventilation and monitoring facilities available.

  • Neonatal intensive care unit (A-Block, Area 11, Level-I):  
                         6 bedded nursery with facility for ventilation.
                         Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) facility for low birth weight babies.
                         Phototherapy and exchange transfusion facility available. 

  •  Pediatric ward: A-Block, Level-IV, Area 43 & 45.
                        48 beds (3-6 beds in each cubical). 
                        Facility for play room available.
                        Designated area for patient & parent counselling

  • Pediatric Intensive Care Unit :  A-Block, Level-III, Area 34
                        4 bedded.

  • Post Natal Ward and Kangaroo Mother Care cubicle : Area 11, A-Block

  • Community outreach service: 
    Active participation in school health services in urban & rural schools of Chandigarh, specially targeting the adolescents. Following activities are being carried out  regularly.
    Health, hemoglobin, vision, dental checkup     and immunization.
    Impart  information to students and teachers regarding normal adolescence.
    Health Education in adolescence related problems.

Other Facilities 

Echocardiography for cardiac patients.
Spirometery for respiratory/airway diseases.    

Teaching & Training 

a) Undergraduate & Post Graduate

The department is engaged in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. Modern teaching methodologies and tools are used. OSCE is being used as a method of evaluation. Both submative and formative assesment is taken into consideration.

Undergraduate IAP Paediatric quiz:
Every year, the department organises pediatric quiz for undergraduates students. 

Other Activities

The department  encourages undergraduates students to take short-term research projects during vacations.

UG Teaching Schedule

                 All weekdays -Forenoon -       Theory & clinical posting
                                      Afternoon -       Seminars, Tutorials & practical demonstration

Postgraduate (PG) teaching

The department has been granted approval by the Medical Council of India for starting 3 years postgraduate (MD) course. Every year one student is admitted to the MD Paediatric course. The admission is held on basis of competitive entrance test/through CBSE.

Academic programme of the department for postgraduates & resident doctors

Day Time  Schedule of meeting 
All week days  9 am to 1 pm Ward rounds 
Monday  2.30 pm to - 4 pm Bedside,  PG Case Presentation 
1st Monday
2nd Monday		 4 to  5 pm
3.30 to 5.00 pm		 Clinico Pathological conference
Perinatal Meeting
Tuesday 3.30 to 4.30 pm Journal Club
Wednesday 3.30 to 5 pm PG Seminar
Friday 3 pm to 4 pm
4 pm to 5 pm		 Departmental Clinical Meeting
Staff Clinical Meeting
Saturday  8 am Mortality meeting

The department trains interns, externs & junior residents in triage of patients in emergency and management of common pediatric emergencies, basic neonatal care, immunization schedule,  management of common peadiatric problem and all national programmes as per IMNCI, WHO and IAP guidelines. They actively participate in academic programmes of the department.

The department offers clinical observership to doctors, psychology students and paramedics in child development, nutrition, adolescent health, neonatal care and paediatric emergency on short term basis. The application for such courses has to be routed through Director Principal.   

Conference & CME

Every year, the department organizes CME on one single theme related to Paediatrics.

Workshops

Neonatal advanced life support workshop (NALS) has been held from time to time for participating pediatricians, medical officers, staff nurses and doctors of other specialities.

Three workshops have been held for teachers of schools & colleges of Chandigarh, teenagers and their parents on adolescent health related issues.

Workshops for training of teachers as counsellors are held by the adolescent health team.

 

Research, Projects & publications

The department has more than 60 original publications to its credit in indexed and non-indexed national & international journals and text books of pediatrics.
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There are more than 25 papers presented in various national and international conferences.

Projects
The department has undertaken several funded and non funded projects.

  • A  project on Adolescent Health by WHO, India was awarded in year 2002 (Department was selected as one of the six centres from whole of India) .

  • Govt. of India , H& FW in the year 2005 funded another adolescent health project with outreach facilities in the schools.

          Following out reach activities are being done under these projects:

- Sensitization of teenagers, teachers and parents on   adolescent health related issues.

 - Regular health  camps.

- Interactive sessions with teenagers on adolescent health issues.

- Workshops organized for parents and teachers to have their view-point on adolescent issues and suggesting means to tackle these.

- Distribution of iron folic acid tablets in several schools

- Providing tetanus immunization in unimmunized adolescents.

  • Reliance Clinical Research Services Pvt. Ltd.

Subject:

Protocol No.: Panbio/CR/0872004/CT, Titled “Open labeled, randomized, multicentric, comparative study to evaluate the immunogenicity and reactogenicity of Ecovac-4TM [DTwP (Chiron Corporation) – Hepatitis B (Panheber Biotec Pvt. Ltd., India) combined tetravalent vaccine] with Tritanrix-HBTM (DTwP-Hepatitis B combined tetravalent vaccine, GSK Biologicals) in infants.”

 

  • Undergraduate student project: In the year 2003, two undergraduates medical students were awarded short-term projects on pediatric topics by Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi.

  • National Neonatal Perinatal Data (NNPD) Project: GMCH is one of the participating college of this multicentre project being conducted by AIIMS in collaboration with ICMR.

Ongoing projects

  • Department of Science and technology, Chandigarh funded and approved project.
    “Non-Traumatic coma in children: A prospective study of clinical profile, management needs & outcome”

  • GVK  Bio-Med Project
    Reference: Protocol Number : 6096AI-011: A Phase 3, Randomized, Active-Controlled, Double-blind Trial Evaluating the Safety, Tolerability and Immunogenicity of a 13-valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Healthy Infants Given With Routine PediatricVaccinations in India

Other activities

  • Active participation by the department in celebration of National Neonatal week, breast feeding week, ORS week and other health related issues in the form of seminars,  group counseling of parents, painting competition, debate competition every year.  

  • Health education and IEC materials are provided for breast feeding, immunization and adolescent health periodically.

Important achievements of the faculty

  • Prof. V.R.Parmar is trained in neonatology in UK under British Council Fellowship programme.

  • Dr. Abhijeet Saha, Sr. Lecturer, has been trained in Paediatric Nephrology under IAP fellowship and international Paediatric Nephrology Association(AIIMS, Delhi) and Clinical Nephrology Training Fellowship from NUH, Singapore.

  • Dr. Banani Poddar, Reader had IAP fellowship in Paediatric Cardiology.

  • Dr. Srikanta Basu (former Sr.Lecturer)  was awarded "Ashok Nathwani visiting fellowship" by Royal College of Pediatric & Child Health, London U.K. for undergoing training in Adolescent Health.

  • Dr. Sudeshna Mitra (former Sr.Lecturer)  was trained in pediatric neurology from Cleveland Clinic, U.S.A

  • Dr. Jatinder Goraya (former Sr. Lecturer) was trained in Paediatric Neurology at Bombay and UK.

Job Opportunities

  • The department has 11 posts of senior residents and 10 junior residents. The Senior Residents posts, with a tenure of maximum three years renewable every year as per vacancies available and advertised by the Principal, Medical College on the college website as well as in national newspapers. Interested candidates may contact HOD directly or get in touch with the Establishment section, Govt. Medical College, Sector-32, Chandigarh 160030.

  • For other vacant faculty positions from time to time please visit the college website.

  • From time to time, depending on projects available the posts for Co-ordinator, Counselor, Social Worker or Staff Nurses are advertised in Employment Exchange.