Community Medicine

Overview

The Community Medicine Department of KIMS strives to protect and promote the health and well-being of the community through the time-tested Primary Health Care approach. The Department offers a holistic mix of community-based teaching and learning experience for MBBS and MD students through visits to the Urban Health and Training Centre (UHTC) and Rural Health & Training Center (RHTC), besides visits to government run PHC and CHCs. On the research front, the faculty on an annual basis add to the indexed (PUBMED/SCOPUS) score of the institute in appreciable numbers. The Department has 209 publications, so far, to its credit.

The Community Medicine Department of KIMS is committed to protect and promote the health and well-being of the community through time-tested Primary Health Care approach.

The mission and vision of the Department is providing comprehensive primary health care by community-oriented doctors through the health center, clinic, or dispensary. The services include diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic illnesses for all age groups. Preventive check-ups, routine maternity and new-born care, immunizations, certain minor surgeries, and mental health care is offered in consultation with other specialists.

Services  Provided

  • The Department offers a holistic mix of lecture as well as community-based teaching and learning experience for MBBS and MD students, imparted in a scheduled manner during the course of visits to the Urban Health and Training Centre (UHTC) and Rural Health & Training Center (RHTC), besides visits to government run PHC and CHCs.  
  • The department has one of the finest libraries, museums in this part of the country and are the constant contributors of ICMR STS project guides. During Covid pandemic, the department offered one of the finest online teaching programs to prevent any discontinuation in the MBBS teaching.

Research/Publications/Awards

On the research front, the faculty on an annual basis add to the indexed (PUBMED/SCOPUS) score of the institute in appreciable numbers. Faculties of Community Medicine Department have been conferred the prestigious ICMR recognition as “Faculty to have published maximally among underserved populations” for year 2019-2020. It also contributed to prestigious BMJ publication on Covid in India in 2020. The Department has 209 publications, so far, to its credit.

The department has a sustained legacy of taking up Nationally acclaimed projects of UNCEF IMNCI, Inclen and Professional Development Course (PDC) for senior level district officials in the country. It is a key stakeholder in any national or state-run programme and contributes to the National Health goals. Research projects have also been managed from the department; 3 ICMR grants projects (in the current year 2020-21) and the Clinical Epidemiology Unit (CEU) now boasts of managing some of the best regulatory trials under (Typhoid and ICMR SII COVOVAX, to name a few). Our midline faculty are ably managing the Covid vaccination for health workers and then elderly; our members in Institutional EC, besides revolutionizing the functioning of the immunization clinic and departmental affairs.

Faculty

SL NO. NAME DESIGNATION QUALIFICATIONS NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS
1 DR. BASANTA KUMAR BEHERA Professor & HOD MD 30
2 DR. SONALI KAR Professor MD 35
3 DR. SMRUTI RANJAN NAYAK Professor MD, Fellowship in Occupational and Enviornmental Medicine. 35
4 DR. IPSA MOHAPATRA Asso.Professor MD 44
5 DR. ALPANA MISHRA Asso.Professor MD 10
6 DR. S SUNEETI KANYARI Asso.Professor MD 07
7 DR. AVINANDAN SARKAR Asst.Professor MD 04
8 Dr Prem Sagar Panda Asst.Professor MD 05
9 DR. KRISHNA MISHRA Asst. Professor MD 10
10 Dr Geeta Chanda Acharya Asst.Professor MD 02
11 Dr. Snigdha Singh Senior Resident MD 06
12 MRS. NIRUPAMA ROUT Asst.Professo (Statistics) M.PHIL (STATISTICS)

 

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