Emergency Medicine course to begin in Baroda Medical College

Updated on: Saturday, October 09, 2010

The Gujarat govt will extend all help to the Baroda Medical College for starting a three-year course on Emergency Medicine, a top official said here.

Rajesh Kishore, Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department, told PTI that the government is also taking new steps including establishment of modern trauma centre at the state-run Sir Sayajirao General (SSG) Hospital.
   
He was speaking after inaugurating the three-day sixth INDUS EM 2010 and the fifth ACET assembly, which began here today.
   
About 1,500 doctors and paramedical staff from USA, Israel and different parts of the country are attending this summit. The theme of the summit is "Doctrines, Departments and Development."
   
Emergency medicine has evolved to treat conditions that pose a threat to life, limb, or have a significant risk of morbidity.
   
"Emergency medicine is a medical speciality—a field of practice based on knowledge and skills required for the prevention, diagnosis and management of acute and urgent aspects of illness and injury affecting patients of all age groups with a full spectrum of undifferentiated physical and behavioural disorders," said Dr Devesh Patel, Organising Secretary of the summit.
Dr A T Leuva, Dean of the Baroda Medical College said four staff members from the college including himself had been to USA for training in South Florida University and after approval from Medical Council of India, this course will be started here.

The Baroda Medical College will be third in the state after two medical colleges in Ahmedabad in starting this course as there is huge demand for the doctors specialised in emergency medicine, said Leuva.
   
Dr Sagar Galwankar, Assistant Professor, emergency medicine and global health, University of South Florida said that his university will extend all support to Baroda Medical college for setting up  a course on emergency medicine.
   
Dr A K Saxena, Superintendent of SSG hospital said "the Emergency Medicine Summit includes a multidisciplinary academic programme involving the specialities of medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, anaesthesia, pediatrics, obstetrics and
gynaecology & other clinical disciplines.
   
It also encourages the younger generation of physicians for participating in competitions like research papers, clinicopathological case competition, journal club, poster competition, career fortune etc, he said.
   
The Academic Council for Emergency & Trauma (ACET), a confluence of representative members of various medical schools across the country have been brain storming the strategy and protocol to develop the science of Emergency Medicine.

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