Orthopaedics

Orthopaedics

The Department of Orthopaedics at GIMSR is one of the busiest, oldest and well-established departments. What started off as a modest single-unit department in 2014, when the GIMSR hospital was established, is now a fully fledged three-unit department with sub-speciality clinics. The workload of the department has increased by over three times in the 6 years of its existence.

Orthopaedics sub-specialisation allows an intense focus of our faculty in the areas of hand surgery, paediatric orthopaedics, spine surgery, and reconstructive orthopaedic surgery, arthroscopy surgery for sports injuries, joint replacement (arthroplasty) surgery and trauma, providing outstanding treatment to all.

The department was started with a mandate to create knowledge, advance learning, and improve the musculoskeletal health at the community, provincial, and national levels and at the same time providing a holistic curriculum to teach undergraduate and postgraduate students of GIMSR. A career in orthopaedics at GIMSR is an extraordinary opportunity, offering world-class education to both medical students from across the country in our undergraduate program, to faculty through providing excellent research facilities, organising regular seminars, journal clubs, etc and beyond.

The faculty comprises good clinicians, teachers, and researchers who choose to contribute large blocks of their time to increase knowledge in the areas of clinical orthopaedics and musculoskeletal science. This focus allows the department to be at the forefront of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and exciting new developments in the areas of hand, improved paediatric musculoskeletal care, advanced techniques in spinal surgery, innovative arthroscopic techniques, improved joint replacement surgery outcomes and trauma surgery.

We are striving to achieve excellence in serving our communities by offering to render orthopaedic services at a very low cost, not compromising on the quality of the care. NAVAJEEVAN PADHAKAM (scheme) is one such program to serve the poor and middle-class patients, who cannot afford complex joint replacement surgeries elsewhere, one of its kind in the entire Andhra Pradesh.

Facilities:

Department Library, Museum, Seminar Room for teaching UGs and PGs

Academics in the Department

Both UGs and PGs.

Post Graduate admissions started from the academic year 2021 with the strength of 04 students per year. At present totally 12 PG students in the Department of Orthopaedics. The PG curriculum consists of seminars, journal clubs, audit meetings, cadaveric dissection classes, and clinical grand rounds. The UG curriculum consists of bedside clinical training and skill lab training. All UGs have an option of taking an elective of Arthroscopy and Arthroplasty in the final semester.