MEDICINE

• About Department

• Existing Staff Detail (All current Faculties and Resident)

• ART (Anti retroviral therapy) center

• Unit-wise Staff Distribution

• Department Time Table

• Publications

• Awards and Achievements

• Free Access Journal List

About Department

The Department of MEDICINE, Medical College Baroda provides tertiary level care to patients with a multitude of medical problems, across the range of internal medicine and its various subspecialities.

The department is recognized by the Medical Council of India ; at present NATIONAL MEDICAL COMMISSION (NMC)for undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Internal Medicine.

The outpatient department operates from OPD-18 located on the ground floor on the common OPD building. The OPD includes a daily general medical OPD besides various speciality clinics viz. cardiology, neurology, and diabetic clinic running on designated days in a week. The ART (Anti retroviral therapy ) center also via OPD 26.

The indoor admissions are made to wards , located at NEW TRAUMA CENTRE building Ground plus six floors. through 6 males and 6 female wards.The department receives patient referral from nearing districts of central and south Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan.

The indoor facility of the department also includes specially designated Intensive Care Units- both medical (MICU) 20 beds and cardiac (ICCU)- 12 bedded each. The units are having state-of-the-art ventilators, both invasive and non invasive, multipara cardiac monitors, and invasive hemodynamic monitoring, defibrillators, blood gas analysers and the like.

A separate Nephrology unit has facilities for both hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis round the clock. The medical service also extends to the trauma center, where emergency medical patients are treated, as also in emergency ward(ward 20), a 15-bedded intensive therapy unit.

Both the ICCU and MICU would be shifting to the newly constructed building near the physiotherapy college known as the ‘Superspeciality Building’.

"Separate isolation ward for management of patients of highly communicable diseases( like e.g. Swine flu ) is available."

Existing Staff Detail (All current Faculties and Resident)

March-2022

November-2022

September-2023

Non Teaching Staff

ART (Anti retroviral therapy) centre:

The ART centre is run by the department of medicine since 21st January, 2009 in OPD 26 on the first floor of the common OPD building. Around 5798 patients are enrolled in the centre, one of the largest in Gujarat. Dr Mahendra Parmar, Professor, is presently working as the Nodal Officer of the ART centre. ART centre has average daily OPD of about 270 patients .

Treatment centre for Hepatitis B and Hepatitic C is also functional under ART centre with all antiviral medicines.

DIALYSIS UNIT
Dialysis unit at SSG Hospital under department of Medicine is functional since 1991.Presently there are 11 hemodialysis machines in the unit with average 20 dialysis sessions per day

UNIT-WISE STAFF DISTRIBUTION

  Department Time Table

Under Graduate
( Theory Lectures )

CLINICAL POSTING

Three clinical posting each in IInd III/I and III/ II MBBS.

2) Term Posting - Course

3) Practical examination is taken at the end of each clinical term and internals are calculated based on these marks.
4) Under graduate students have to fulfill 80% criteria of presence in clinics and 75% in theory for them to qualify to appear for Final MBBS Exams.
5) Internal marks are calculated on the basis of theory periodic exams taken during IInd, IIIrd, IVth professional year and prelim.

Post Graduate Teaching
• Teaching Schedule
1) Case presentation of common clinical cases on Monday 4:00 to 5:00 pm.
2) Two Case presentations of unusual and rare cases on Thursday 4:00 to 5:00 pm.
3) Assignment presentation on Wednesday between 4:00 to 5:00 pm.
4) Bed side clinical teaching during morning ward rounds
5) Every PG is allotted a Topic- for thesis on which work is started after clearance from IECHR submitted before final exam.
6) Final exams of the PGs, are taken at the End of 3 years, which comprises of both theory exam (4 papers) and practical exams.

PG  Clinical Posting

1) Ist year- 6 Months in male and female wards by rotation.
2) IInd year- Posted in Neurology/Nephrology, ICU and ICCU for each by rotation. Posted in casualty on Emergency day & DRP posting-3months
3) IIIrd year- Posted in male and female wards by rotation.
• Attend OPD and specialty clinics on their respective days.
• Attend medical camps in rural and urban areas.

PUBLICATIONS FROM DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE (LAST 3 YEARS)

2021
1. efficacy and safety of orally administered Acotiamide extended release tablets among functional dyspepsia postprandial distress syndrome patients-A randomised multicentre double blind studyshubhdeep sinha,Saroj sinha,Rupal V Dosi et all,cureus,April08,2021.

2. PARIKH, Rujuta R.; GANDHI, Archana U.; TRIVEDI, Smita K. Microalbuminuria as a predictor of cardiovascular morbidity in essential hypertensive patients: research study done at tertiary care centre in Western India. International Journal of Advances in Medicine, [S.l.], v. 8, n. 8, p. 1137-1141, july 2021. ISSN 2349-3933.Available at: <https://www.ijmedicine.com/index.php/ijam/article/view/2964.

3. Minal Shastri, Darshankumar Manubhai Raval, Vaishnavi M Rathod, Dhruti Patel Adjuvant Tocilizumab in the treatment of moderate to severe COVID 19 Pneumonia : An observational study Journal of Association of Physicians of India January 2022 volume 70 ISSN 0004 – 5772.

2022
4. “A study of clinical and investigative profile of peripartum cardiomyopathy” Dr. Rupal Vikas Dosi (1) , Dr. Harshalkumar Kamleshbhai Joshi (2), Dr. Riya Pranav Vaishnav (3), ISSN:2455-7404, International Journal of Medicine research,Published:28.11.2022, Volume 7, Isse 2,2022 Page No. 43-49.

5. “Diagnostic value of alcoholic liver disease (ALD)/non alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) index (ANI) in differentiating alcoholic liver disease from non alcoholic fatty liver disease” Punya Marulidhar (1), Dr. Rupal V. Dosi (2) International Journal of Medicine Research, ISSN:2455-7404 Published: 4.10.2022, volume 7,Issue 2, 2022 Page No.35-39.

6. ““Biochemical abnormalities in patients presenting with acute organo-phosphorus poisoning in a tertiary care hospital, and the prognostic significance” Sneh Sonaiya, Dr.Rupal Dosi, ISSN: 2349-3925, Published: 2022-05-24, Volume 9, No 6(2022)

7. Association of elevated LDH and Hypocalcemia in Dengue fever and its severity & noutcomes” Dr Rupal V Dosi,Dr Pankti A Bhatt,Dr Karan J Pandya,IOSR Journal of Dental and medical sciences.e-ISSN;2279-0853,p-ISSN:2279-0861,volume -22,issue 4ser.9(April 2023)PP30-34.

8. “Adjuvant tocilizumab in treatment of patients with moderate to severe COVID-19 Pneumonia an observational study” Dr. Minal Shastri, published: 2022, Page No.14-17.

9. “Clinical profile and outcome of critically ill NCOVID-19 patients with special reference to Diabetes” Dr. Minal Shastri, Published: 2022, Page No.36-41.

10. “Study of the role of plasma NT proBNP in the diagnosis of Heart failure. J Assoc Physicians India 2022, 70(7) Pages No. 38-42. Athavale B, Pathak Jaya.

11. Gamit J, Gandhi A. Prognostic Value of Long Corrected QT Interval on Electrocardiogram in Acute Organophosphate Poisoning: A Cohort Study J Clin and Diagn Res.2022; 16(8):OC05-OC08. https://www.doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2022/53737/16697

12. Prajapati KV, Gandhi AU, Rathod MM, Patel MH, Patel S, Patel T. An observational study of the endothelial dysfunction in type 2 diabetes mellitus and its association with risk factors. APIK J Int Med.cited 2022 Nov 29. Available from: https://www.ajim.in/preprintarticle.asp?id=348291

13. Patel, S.V., Makwana, A.B., Gandhi, A.U. et al. Factors associated with vitamin B12 deficiency in adults attending tertiary care Hospital in Vadodara: a case control study. Egypt J Intern Med 34, 11 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s43162-022-00104-0

14. Association of Mean platelet volume with vascular complications in the patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus Krutik J brahmbhatt Bharat chaudhary, Darshankumar M Raval , Shashwat Mallik, Shahin khan , Mayur Patel , Nirav Patel.cureus.2022 sep 19;14(9):e29316

15. Study of the role of plasma NT proBNP in the diagnosis of Heart failure. J Assoc Physicians Inida 2022, 70(7) Page No. 38-42. Athavale B, Pathak Jaya.

2023
16. Rupal Dosi Estimation of Glycemic Gap to predict adverse outcome in critically III patients with Dibates in a Tertiary care Hospital in Vadodara International Journal of science and research (IJSR) ISSN: 2319-7064 Volume 12 issue 5 May 2023

17. Thyroid function in post menopausal womanin western India and its impact on menopausal symptoms ,BMI,Glycemic,lipid and cardiac profile.”Dr Dhwani Thakar,Dr Rupal Dosi,Dr Dnyaneshwar Maghade,International Journal of scientific research,volume -12,issue-5,May 2023,print ISSN no.2277-8179,DOI:10.36106/ijsr

18. Platelet to Lymphocyte Ratio (PLR) in prediciting severity of COVID- 19 pneumonia Dr.Vaishali Patel, Dr.Pranjal Shukla, Dr.Foram Chaudhari, Dr.Vaidehi Kothari Dr.Parth Valera, Dr. Jigna R Patel International Journal of scientific research, August-2023

19. Study of the Apoliporotein B/ apolipoprotein A1 Ratio as apotential Markers of plasma Atherogenicity in Acute Myocardial infarction Dr.Narendra Uma, Dr.Harikrushna Prajapati, Dr.Ani Shah Dr.Anjali Patel (STEMI) European Journal of cardiovascular Medicine ISSN: 2024-4884/E-ISSN: 2042-4892

20. Iron status in sickle cell Anemia Deficieny or overload Cureus Journal of Medical Science Dr.Varsha Patel Dr.Pryag Pandya, Dr.Darshan Kumar Raval, Dr.Vaishnavi Rathod, PMCID : PMC10038172/PMID : 36968931 Feb-2023

Awards

CME, ACHIEVEMENT AND AWARDS OF STUDENTS OF MEDICAL DEPARTMENT IN LAST 5 YRS

Free Access Journal List

1. Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology
2. Annals of Thoracic Medicine
3. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health
4. British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research
5. Gujarat Medical Journal
6. Indian Dermatology Online Journal
7. Indian Journal of Allergy Asthma and Immunology
8. Indian Journal of Clinical Practice
9. Indian Journal of Community Medicine
10. Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine
11. Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
12. Indian Journal of Gastroenterology
13. Indian Journal of Human Genetics
14. Indian Journal of Nephrology
15. Indian Journal of Occupational and Enviornmental Medicine
16. Indian Journal of Tuberculosis
17. International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health
18. Journal of Indian Rheumatology Association
19. Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
20. Journal of the Association of Physicians of India
21. Medical Journal Armed Forces India
22. Scholars' Research Journal
23. The Indian Journal of Chest Diseases and Allied Sciences
24. Asian Journal of Transfusion Science
25. Indian Journal of Medical Research
26. Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging
27. Indian Journal of Medical Research
28. International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries
29. Open Tropical Medicine Journal
30. Hematology online (ASH)
31. The Internet Journal of Gastroenterology
32. Circulation Journal
33. Open Cardiovascular Medicine Journal
34. BMC Neurology
35. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
36. The Internet Journal of Neurology
37. Neurology India
38. Journal of Medicine