Programme Structure
This is a structured one-year programme involving six months of medicine and six months of surgery rotations. The six-monthly rotations are composed of further three rotations of two months each. Each intern thus goes through six rotations. These rotations are chosen by the interns themselves; with the intern highest on the merit list getting the first choice and then proceeding in this manner down the list.
The academic programme for interns consists of:
- Core lectures designated jointly for interns and first year residents.
- Weekly tutorials of surgical and medical topics.
- Hands-on surgical skills workshops on the following:
- Suturing
- Knot-tying
- Plastering
- Foley's catheter insertion
- Care of stoma
- Head injuries
- Aseptic dressings
- How to take a Pap Smear
- Basic life support (BLS)
- Cognitive skills workshops:
- Relationship strategies
- Handling difficult people
- Conflict management and anger management
- Creativity and problem solving
- Presentation skills
- Personal effectiveness
- Service excellence through emotional intelligence
- Weekly tutorials covering medical and surgical topics:
- Coma
- Animal/Human bite
- Neonatal sepsis
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- Hematuria
- Musculoskeletal Trauma
- Anaphylaxis
- Shock
- Chest Injuries
- Hand Injuries and Infections
- Stroke
- Management of polytrauma patient
- Interpretation of ECG
- Interpretation of ABGs
- Management of diarrhoea in children
- Fluid & Electrolyte
- Bone and joint infection
- Epilepsy
- Drug overdose
- Heart block
- Hypertension
- Career counseling
- Antenatal care
- Diabetic Pregnancy
- Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding
- Treatment of Pregnancy Induced Hypertension
- New born care
- Management of Pneumonia
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- GI bleed
- Tobacco Control and the Role of Health Professionals
