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.
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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