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The Department of Community Medicine is situated on the 2nd floor of Symbiosis Medical College for Women. The department is actively involved in undertaking quality research and delivering technical knowledge to the students and health care workers. It functions for the delivery of comprehensive health care services through its affiliated rural and urban health training centres (RHTC & UHTC) for improving the health status of the community in the rural and urban areas. The department also performs community outreach activities in 35 identified villages of Taluka Mulshi by providing healthcare care services to rural and migrant population through the Symbiosis Community Outreach Program Extension (SCOPE) department.
Promoting community health understanding among students through quality education and research, and provides health care services to the community at their doorstep by conducting periodical ongoing outreach activities and Family Adoption Programme.
M.B.B.S., D.P.H, M.D. (Community Medicine)
Madam has done her specialization in Community Medicine in addition to diploma in Public Health. She is a dedicated teacher with 24 years of teaching experience for medical undergraduates. She has worked in the reputed medical colleges like Grant Medical College in Mumbai, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College in Mumbai and Bharati Vidyapeeth (DTU) Medical College in Pune.She is interested in research work and received research grants for conducting the same. she has guided more than 25 undergraduate projects. Madam has acted as a Coinvestigator for “Impact of Air pollution on Respiratory Health of Adult population of Pune, Maharashtra submitted to Department of Science and Technology, Sub-investigator for “Pneumonia Research Initiative in rural area and urban slums of Maharashtra” funded by Bill and Melinda gates Foundation through Inclen Trust International, Delhi and for project on “COPD in general population (OSCAR)” in collaboration with Chest Research Foundation funded by CIPLA.She has done Consultancy for Department of Ophthalmology, Dinanath Mangeshkar Hospital, Pune on project titled “Prevalence and awareness study of Glaucoma in urban slum population of Pune city” in 2009 and was one of the Member of a consultant team for preparation of Project Proposal for HALO Medical Foundation, Aurangabad submitted to PATH titled “Maternal and New-born health through Self Help Group in Solapur city, Maharashtra – towards democratization of health care” in 2010. She has administrative skills and has expertise in MCI Inspection documentation, successfully completed 4 MCI inspection in symbiosis Medical College for Women till now.
She has 28 paper publications in national and international journals and 1 Book chapter.
Madam has conducted many Health education and health awareness sessions in urban slum and rural area (field practice area of urban and rural health centre of Medical college) for general public including the vulnerable groups. She had interactive sessions in the form of workshops, celebration of public health days etc with Anganwadi workers, Supervisors and ASHA. She acted as judge for healthy baby competitions, recipe competition etc. organized by anganwadi workers. She is actively involved in organizing health camps, specialist’s camps in field practice area of urban and rural health training centre.
The Community Medicine Department in SMCW has a museum with sufficient models, instruments and items covering various topics of public health importance. The placement of items is well placed as per different sections covering the different topics under the subject.
The department also contains a laboratory with set of simple and compound microscopes and teaching equipment consisting of audio-visual aids, microphone, speakers, projector. There are displays of department created posters for learners’ general knowledge and information.
An individual departmental demonstration room with a seating capacity for 75 students and necessary A-V AIDS is present.
There is an individual seminar room with A-V facility for the presenter, display board, and required seating capacity.
There is also an individual library room with a seating facility containing recent newer editions of required textbooks, and journals.
A separate research laboratory is present for the learners giving additional space for future learning for data entry, compilation, coding, analysis, and presentation.
MBBS, DPH, MD (Community Medicine)
Professor & HOD
reshma.patil@smcw.siu.edu.in
MBBS MD PhD (Community Medicine), PGDHRM, PGDCR, PGDQMHHO, PGD: Counselling.
Professor
commed.priyakulkarni@smcw.siu.edu.in
MBBS, MD (Community Medicine)
Associate Professor
amruta.barhate@smcw.siu.edu.in
MBBS, D.P.H., M.D. Community Medicine
pramod.kulkarni@smcw.siu.edu.in
MBBS, MD
babita.kuruvilla@smcw.siu.edu.in
B.Sc., M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D. and UGC-NET (Med. Community Medicine)
Assistant Professor
jitendra.gupta@smcw.siu.edu.in
M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D., UGC-NET (Med. Community Medicine)
mohd.usman@smcw.siu.edu.in
aditi.dabir@smcw.siu.edu.in
shraddha.bhondve@smcw.siu.edu.in
MBBS
Tutor
pradip.pawar@smcw.siu.edu.in
sanket.sonawane@smcw.siu.edu.in
isha.kamble@smcw.siu.edu.in
mrunali.kolhe@smcw.siu.edu.in
samridhi.gupta@smcw.siu.edu.in
ashutosh.gawande@smcw.siu.edu.in
All the faculty members are regularly involved in research and have a total of 57 publications to their credit in various National and International journals.
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