Screening for Women Health at Ibrahimpatnam
The camp was organized at Ibrahimpatnam, 1st and 20th ward on 18th November, 2018 from 9 am to 4 pm by the department of Community Medicine, JIMS HMC in collaboration with Vikas Tharangini of JIVA.
The venue was a community function hall, “Munnur kapu Bhavanam”. The program was inaugurated by lighting the lamp and felicitating the Sarpanch.
The total number of beneficiaries was 310; women who underwent colposcopy were 60. 44 Gynec cases requiring active follow up were identified.
Learning from the Camp for Students:
- Organizing a camp in a setting with lack of resources.
- Screening a large number of patients and presenting to physician.
- Behavioural requirements in a rural setting.
- Colposcopy and comparing healthy and unhealthy cervix and breast examination.
- Experiencing community service.
By
Dr Sudhamathi. S.M.
Symposium On Therapeutic Management
The Symposium on Therapeutic Management was held on 24th and 25th September, 2018, at Lecture Theatre 1 at JIMS Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital.
The Inauguration of the Symposium was done with a prayer song by a 1st year BHMS student, Ms. Sukanya, followed by lighting of the lamp.
The Principal gave the welcome speech and an introduction of the symposium was given by Dr. Renuka B. Y, Professor, Dept. of Anatomy and Co-Ordinator, Symposium and I/C MET Cell.
The two-day Symposium covered the following topics covered by the Faculty at JIMS:
Schedule (Day 1):
- Acute Inflammation and its Management, Dr. Akhil, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Medicine
- Chronic Inflammation and its management, Dr. N C Dhole, Professor, Dept. of Medicine.
- Management of Hyperemesis Gravidarum, Dr. Rajalaxmi, Asst. Professor, Dept. of OBG
- Management of Injuries, Dr. Manasa, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Surgery
- Tumors and Management, Dr. Chand, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Surgery
Schedule (Day 2):
- Interactive session on the topic ‘Clinical Classification of Diseases’ by Dr. Hahnemann and its application in teaching therapeutics and as well in clinical practice, Dr. Navin Pawaskar, Senior Consultant, JIMS
- Teaching Therapeutics through Clinical Cases, Dr. Reetha Krishnan. Medical Superintendent, JIMS Hospital
- Perceiving Therapeutics through Repertory, Dr. Revan, Associate Professor, Dept. of Repertory
- Perceiving Therapeutics through HMM, Dr. Akshatha S, Asst. Professor, Dept of HMM.
- Management of Acute Abdomen, Dr. Manumit C Professor, Dept. of Surgery
- Understanding Therapeutics through Organon Of Medicine, Dr. Anjali C, Professor, Dept. of Organon
The concluding remarks were given by Dr. Kothe, Director and Professor, Dept. of HMM regarding evolution of teaching methodology in therapeutics and how to train the students to prepare the therapeutics notes, how they should be guided to present in University examinations and at the same time how to raise the students’ confidence in clinical practice with good knowledge of HMM, Organon and Repertory as aid.
Homeopathy research launched at JIMS
Hyderabad: A research project to compare health status of children treated with homeopathy and those treated with allopathy medicine was launched at JIMS Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Shamshabad.
The research project titled ‘A Comparison of Conventional and Homeopathic Paradigms in Treating Children aged 0 to 18 Months: A Pragmatic, Randomized Clinical Trial’ is being taken up in collaboration with Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy (CCRH), Ministry of AYUSH.
The research will involve assessment of a host of parameters including overall growth and development, number and duration of diarrheal episodes, occurrence of respiratory infections, management of other acute diseases and mortality rate during the first 18 months of life.
The research study will also serve as a measure to compare the economic implications of both the treatment modalities, the research project lead Medical Superintendent, JIMS Hospital, Dr. Reetha Krishnan said.
The project was launched by Tridandi Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji, Chairman-Governing Council, Dr. J. Rameshwar Rao, Chairman of Academic Council, Dr. Paavuluri Krishna Chaudhary of JIMS Homeopathic Medical College and other top officials from AYUSH were present.
Homoeo Quiz 2018
OBJECTIVES:
- To break away from the monotony of didactic lectures and infuse in our students a spirit of collateral thinking.
- Rounds were designed to test different faculties of learning like visual, interpretation, analysis, application and synthesis which would aid students in viva, bed side case understanding, and clinical correlation.
- Importance was given to Pre, Para clinical, clinical and homoeopathic subjects.
The Homoeo Quiz 2018 was organised and designed by Dr Aparna Rajput and Dr Akhil B G. The Quiz was conducted on 26th of July 2018 in lecture hall 2, between 10-12 pm for second and third year BHMS students. The quiz masters were Dr Aparna and Dr Akhil. The scorers were Dr Raja Satish and Dr Chand Sharma.
The quiz was organised through proper channel by the guidance of Dr Arvind Kothe, Director JIMS with the involvement of Principal, student council and MET cell.
METHODOLOGY:
Eight students from each class second and third year BHMS participated for the quiz.
There were four teams A B C D. The quiz consisted of four rounds.
First round consisted of five sets of direct questions from anatomy, physiology biochemistry, and homoeopathic pioneers to assess the knowledge of students. Each question was time bound for 30 seconds.
Second round consisted of direct spotter questions from pathology, forensic medicine toxicology, and surgical instruments.
There was an audience round for faculty and students.
Third round consisted of four sets of direct questions which consisted of OBG, medical signs and clinical cases, and if unanswered were passed to the next team, these were to assess the skills, application of clinical knowledge.
Fourth round was a rapid fire round consisting of 12 question which consisted of pre/Para clinical, clinical and homoeopathic subjects, which was time bound for three minutes, if any time remained the unanswered questions were repeated. This round was to assess the alertness and spontaneity.
Winners were announced by Dr Raja Satish and Dr Chand Sharma. Dr Anjali from the faculty and second and third year representative shared their experience.
This was followed by prize distribution by Dr Arvind Kothe, Director JIMS Homoeopathic Medical College. He complimented the programme and congratulated the participants.
WINNERS:
IST PRIZE TEAM A– HARISHMA PURVANTHI, VELDANDI MANIDEEP (III BHMS), VAMSHI PATHAKATA, MAHEK SIGH (II BHMS)
2ND PRIZE TEAM C– Y SRILATHA YADAV, SHAIK ASMABEE (III BHMS), SHAIK MOHAMMAD ASHRAF, APOORVA SVN (II BHMS)
AUDIENCE PRIZE (FACULTY) – DR ANJALI. (DEPT ORGANON OF MEDICINE)
AUDIENCE PRIZE (STUDENT) – Ms SNEHITHA (III BHMS)
OBSERVATION:
- Immense enthusiasm was seen in the students and participants.
- Sportive competition was noted.
- The faculty members enjoyed the program thoroughly.
SUGGESTIONS:
- A few rounds from areas like lateral thinking, comprehension, general knowledge, logic and reasoning could be added.
School health programme 2018
School health programme was conducted by Department of Community Medicine on the 24th of July 2018
The Department of community medicine with the cooperation by all the heads of the schools and their receptiveness conducted the school health awareness program with great enthusiasm by the staff and students of 3rd year BHMS at JIMS Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital. The programme was an enriching experience for everyone.
During the programme 6 government schools were visited addressing a total of 1524 students.
Posters depicting awareness on preventions of rainy season problems themed ‘How to take care of our health during rainy season’ were given to each student of the schools visited. All the students were happy and appreciated the posters and the event.
Activities during the programme:
There were 6 teams of students and an in-charge staff who visited the schools. Students delivered awareness talk regarding correct hand wash practices for the children. All the children took part enthusiastically. Later a skit was presented showing how to prevent diseases like malaria, dengue, diarrhoea etc to the school children on the respective school grounds.
Future school programmes:
The future programmes that were suggested by the Principal and Headmasters of the schools were Blood Grouping and Blood pressure recording for the students of 9th and 10th standard , diagnostic camps, medical camps, awareness talk on sanitary hygiene for high school girls, ENT screening, Nutritional screening, Skin disease screening camp.
Dr Sudhamathi.S.M.
Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine
Dr. R.K . Manchanda, Director General, CCRH visits JIMS Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital on 9th July 2018
Dr R. K Manchanda, Director General, CCRH, Govt of India, along with Dr. Himabindu, Scientist II, RRI, Hyderabad and Dr E.A. Sundaram Scientist IV , RRI Hyderabad visited JIMS Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital on the 9th of July 2018. Dr Manchanda appreciated the hard work put in by the team of the Hospital in developing such a huge patient base in spite of being in a rural place.
Dr. Manchanda visited the college campus. He appreciated the efforts of the management in providing the huge amount of infrastructure and state of art lecture theatres and said that other institutes should get inspired to do the same.
He attended the first meeting of the IEC constituted by JIMS. Dr Manchanda spoke about the project on “Comparison of conventional and Homoeopathic Paradigms in treating children aged 0-18 months” and said this project is being done in collaboration with CICM, Israel as part of the MoU signed between the Govt. of Israel and Govt. of India. He said that JIMS Hospital was chosen as site of investigation after a thorough study of different Homoeopathic Hospitals in India.
Dr. Manchanda addressed the students of JIMS .Dr Arvind Kothe, Director, JIMSHMC gave a floral welcome and Dr Raghuramchandra, Principal, JIMSHMC gave the welcome address. Dr. Manchanda in his address to the students gave a brief “Overview of Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy”. He spoke about the multifaceted work carried out by CCRH like, Evidence Based researches on clinical, fundamental and validation aspects, universally acceptable research designs, thorough peer reviews , ethical and scientific approvals by various committees for protocol designs, publication of works in reputed journals, dissemination of works at various public information counters , exchange of information with other institutions, associations and societies interested in the objectives similar to those of the council.
Collaborations with other institutes of Excellence for promotion of Homoeopathy and also international collaborations with 12 countries.He encouraged the students to utilize all the facilities available at JIMS and said they were fortunate to study in an institute like JIMS which has etched a name for itself at a remarkable pace.