CSMMU to start new post-grad course

“We fulfill the requirement to run an MD course in Physical Medicine in Rehabilitation and we are expecting the team to send its approval very soon,” said Prof V P Sharma,Head of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. “A two-year PG Diploma in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation will also be started along with the MD course.”

While the requirement is of one professor and one reader or lecturer in each unit of 30 beds,the department already has one professor and two lecturers. The department has a 100-bed facility and two new lecturers will be appointed soon. “Though we have enough facilities for three units,we are planning to undertake only two units initially for the course,” Sharma said. “A minimum of two and a maximum of 4 students can seek admission for the MD course and six students will be admitted in the diploma course.”

In the second phase,the department plans to take a Bachelor’s course in physiotherapy,occupational therapy,prosthetics and orthotics. Twenty students will be allowed to take each of these four-year courses. While occupational therapy is a subject pertaining to daily life and the associated physical activities,orthotics and prosthetics are associated with the use of calipers or artificial limbs.

“This is the first time in India that all these courses will be available under the same roof,” he said.

The Centre will bear 75 per cent of the cost of the courses and the university the rest.

Only three to four lectures and a 15-day exposure is devoted to this issue in the MBBS course. The scope is wide as few medical students have a specialty.