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Highlights
This is a structured one-year programme which has six months of medicine and six months of surgery rotations. The six monthly rotations are composed of 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:
1. Core lectures design ated jointly for interns and first year residents
2. Weekly tutorials of surgical and medical topics
3. Hands-on surgical skills workshops on the following:
- Suturing
- Knot tying
- Plastering
- Foley's catheter insertion
- Care of stoma
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- Head injuries
- Aseptic dressings.
- How to take a Pap Smear
- Basic life support (BLS)
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4. Cognitive skills workshops
- Relationship strategies
- Handling difficult people
- Conflict management and anger management
- Creativity and problem solving
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- Presentation skills
- Personal effectiveness
- Service excellence through emotional intelligence
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5. 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 diarrhorea in children
- Fluid & Electrolyte
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- Bone and joint infection
- Epilepsy
- Drug overdose
- Heart block
- Hypertension
- Career counselling
- 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
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