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CME PROGRAMMES, GUEST TALKS AND MEDICAL AUDIT MEETINGS 2024

Sl.No Date Topics Department Participants
102.01.2024
(Tuesday)

Role of Feedback in improving Quality in Medical Education

MEU

Dr. Subhasis Das
Professor & HOD Physiology

230.01.2024
(Tuesday)

Hospital Care Review Meeting

Hospital Mortality Audit Group

-

306.02.2024
(Tuesday)

“Qualitative Research in Medical Education”

MEU

Guest Speaker
Dr. Prahan Kumar R
Professor & HOD Community Medicine
Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute
Puducherry.

420.02.2024
(Tuesday)

“Safety Culture in Healthcare Institution”

Safety Committee

Guest Speaker
Dr. Pratheesh Ravindran
Professor of Neurosurgery,
Deputy Medical Superintendent (Superspeciality services)
NABH Coordinator,
Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute
Puducherry.

526.02.2024
(Monday)

External Oration by Scientific Society

Scientific Society

Guest Speaker
Dr. Saira Banu M,
Surveillance Medical Officer,
WHO-NPSP, Pondicherry Unit

627.02.2024
(Tuesday)

Hospital Care Review Meeting

Hospital Mortality Audit Group

-

712.03.2024
(Tuesday)

Glaucoma Awareness

Ophthalmology

Guest Speaker
Dr. Swathi Nagarajan
Professor, MGMC

819.03.2024
(Tuesday)

Expanded Newborn Screening by Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Biochemistry

Guest Speaker
Prof. (Dr.) K. Pramila MD,
Professor & HOD,
Department of Biochemistry,
Institute of Child Health & Hospital for Children,
MMC, and Chennai.

926.03.2024
(Tuesday)

Hospital Care Review Meeting

Hospital Mortality Audit Group

-

1009.04.2024
(Tuesday)

Accident Register Entry:
-From basics to recent updates
-for both Novice & Experts

Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

Guest Speaker
Dr. D. Gitanjali, MBBS, D.D.Fellow in HIV Medicine, MD
Professor and Head
Department of Forensic Medicine
Government Villupuram Medical College

1116.04.2024
(Tuesday)

Students Debate on Artificial Intelligence

Scientific Society

Scientific Society group

1230.04.2024
(Tuesday)

Hospital Care Review Meeting

Hospital Mortality Audit Group

-

1307.05.2024
(Tuesday)
Guest CME

“ROLE OF BIOLOGICALS IN BRONCHIAL ASTHMA”

Respiratory Medicine

GUEST SPEAKER
DR. SURESH SAGADEVAN, MD, FCCP (USA), FAPSR (JAPAN)
CLINICAL LEAD CONSULTANT & INTERVENTIONAL PULMONOLOGIST
GLENEAGLES HEALTH CITY CHENNAI

1414.05.2024
(Tuesday)

Presentation by Undergraduate & Postgraduate students

Scientific Society

Scientific Society group

1521.05.2024
(Tuesday)
Guest CME

Ethical issues in Health care and Biomedical Research

Anatomy

GUEST SPEAKER
Prof.(Dr.) Nalin Mehta,(MBBS, MD, MHSc)
Director, NEIGRIHMS

Ethical strategies ensure integrity of research and also protect the safety of patients who volunteer to participate in trials>

1628.05.2024
(Tuesday)

Hospital Care Review Meeting

Hospital Mortality Audit Group

-

1704.06.2024
(Tuesday)

Presentation by Faculty & Postgraduate students

Scientific Society

Scientific Society group

1811.06.2024
(Tuesday)

Bridging the gap: Engaging Generation Z Learners In Medical Education

Anatomy

Panel Members:
Mr. Zainul
(UG 2020 batch)
Dr. Tanushree
(3rd year PG Pulmonary Medicine)
Dr.R.P. Swaminathan
(HOD of General Medicine)
Dr. Nachiket Shankar
(Professor of Anatomy)
Dr. Renu G’Boy Varghese
(Professor of Pathology)
Dr. Subhashish Das
(HOD of Physiology)

Introduction to GEN Z-Dr. Nachiket Shankar (Professor of Anatomy, St. John’s Medical College)

Followed by PANEL DISCUSSION

1918.06.2024
(Tuesday)
Guest CME

National policy updates: Expectations from medical colleges

Microbiology

Dr. A. Velavan
Assoc. Professor
Dept of Community Medicine
NTEP core committee- coordinator,PIMS

Updates on Diagnosis of Drug sensitive & resistant Tuberculosis

Guest Speaker
Dr. Noyal Mariya Joseph
Addl. Professor Dept of Microbiology,JIPMER.
Chair, NTEPSTFOR Committee, Puducherry

Updates on Management of Tuberculosis including TB preventive therapy

Dr S Antonious Maria Selvam
Associate Professor
Dept of Pulmonary medicine,PIMS

2024.06.2024
(Monday)

Hospital Care Review Meeting

Hospital Mortality Audit Group

-

2109.07.2024
(Tuesday)

“Melody Meets Mind”

Scientific Society

Dr. Sobana & Team
Professor of Physiology
School of Music Therapy
ISCM, MCMCRI

2216.07.2024
(Tuesday)

Rethink Diabetes:
Advancing Diabetic Care using Technologies

Pharmacology

Introduction
Dr. Isabella Topno
Professor & HOD
Pharmacology

Speaker
Dr. Sathiya Ruban. M,
Assistant Professor,
Pharmacology

2323.07.2024
(Tuesday)
Guest CME

Teens, Social Media and its impact

Psychiatry

Guest Speaker
Dr. Vidyaa Ramkumar
Chairperson
Dowry Prohibition Advisory Board
Govt of Puducherry

2430.07.2024
(Tuesday)

Hospital Care Review Meeting

Hospital Mortality Audit Group

-

2506.08.2024
(Tuesday)
Guest CME

Eye Donation Facts & Myths

Ophthalmology

Guest Speaker
RTN.Dr. Vanaja Vaithianathan
Founder, Medical Director & Chief Ophthalmic Surgeon
Jothi Eye Care Centre

2613.08.2024
(Tuesday)
Guest CME

Presentation by Postgraduate students

Scientific Society

Scientific Society group

2720.08.2024
(Tuesday)

Menopause - an update

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Guest Speaker
Dr. (Prof) Papa Dasari
President of Indian Menopause Society and Dean Research
Sri Venkateshwara Medical College and Research Institute

2827.08.2024
(Tuesday)

Hospital Care Review Meeting

Hospital Mortality Audit Group

PIMS Mortality Committee

2903.09.2024
(Tuesday)

Breaking myths: Orthopaedic Surgery – a key to elderly mobility

Orthopaedics

Speakers

Geriatric joints

Dr. Shyam Sundar
Assistant Professor

Geriatric Spine

Dr. Naveen Sake
Associate Professor

Geriatric Rehabilitation

Dr. Srikanth
HOD Physiotherapy

Geriatric Trauma

Dr. Ponnilavan
Assistant Professor

3010.09.2024
(Tuesday)

“Translational Health Solutions: Bridging the Valley of Death"

Scientific Society

Speaker
Dr. Ramachandran Thiruvengadam,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biochemistry

3117.09.2024
(Tuesday)
Guest CME

Steroids – Use & Abuse

Dermatology

Speaker
Prof. Dr. K. Karthikeyan M.D DVL
Dean Academic & Head of the Department
Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College & Hospital, Puducherry

3224.09.2024
(Tuesday)

Hospital Care Review Meeting

Hospital Mortality Audit Group

-

3325.09.2024
(Wednesday)
Guest CME

Alumni CME 2024

PIMS Career Guidance Cell

Guest Speakers
Dr. Aswin Ram Rathan (2011 batch)
Dr. Minitta Maria Regy (2012 batch)
Dr. Mathew Cherian (2013 batch)

3401.10.2024
(Tuesday)

COMPREHENSIVE SURGICAL CARE

General Surgery

Speakers
Dr. P.Nirmal Kumar, Professor
Dr. Vignesh Kumar S, Associate Professor
Dr. Jeenu Elizabeth Cherian, Senior Resident
Dr. Sandeep Samson, Assistant Professor
Dr. R. Ari Ganesan, Assistant Professor

3508.10.2024
(Tuesday)
Guest CME

TEN FINGERS FOR GOD

Bioethics Unit

Guest Speakers
Mr. Joshi Animuthu
Speakers
Dr. Peter Prasanth Kumar Kommu
Dr. Susan Solomon
Dr. Rema Devi

3615.10.2024
(Tuesday)

Anaesthesia: Past, Present & Future

Anaesthesiology

Speakers
Dr. Amoolya Kamalnath, Assistant Professor
Dr. Eashwar Neelakandan, Assistant Professor
Dr. Nirmalraj R, Assistant Professor

3722.10.2024
(Tuesday)

Hospital Care Review Meeting

Hospital Mortality Audit Group

-

3829.10.2024
(Tuesday)

Annual Internal Oration “My travelogue as a Physician”

Scientific Society

Speaker
Dr. R.P.Swaminathan
Emeritus Professor,
General Medicine, PIMS

3905.11.2024
(Tuesday)

CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL CORRELATION (CPC)


General Medicine

Pathology

Radiodiagnosis

  1. Cherisha S, Intern
  2. F Sarah Catherine, Intern
  3. Lakshmi Priyaa L, MBBS 2020 Batch
  4. Jenis Sylvia J, MBBS 2020 Batch
  5. Nalinchander A, MBBS 2020 Batch
  6. L R Srinivasa Guptha, Assistant Professor of General Medicine
  7. Dr. Sruthi Kandaswamy, 2nd year PG, Pathology

4012.11.2024
(Tuesday)
Guest CME

PANDA -13 An introduction to the role of Electron microscopy in a clinical diagnostic laboratory

Paediatrics

Guest Speaker
Dr. Smita Mary Matthai MD,
Consultant pathologist,
Central EM Facility,
Wellcome trust research Laboratory,
CMC, Vellore.

4119.11.2024
(Tuesday)

UG Oral presentation

Scientific Society

Scientific Society group

4226.11.2024
(Tuesday)

Hospital Care Review Meeting

Hospital Mortality Audit Group

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