Department Overview
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.
Vision
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.
Mission
- To educate the medical student doctors for identification of individual and community health problems, and application of preventive and therapeutic measures.
- To promote quality research for socially pertinent issues.
- To amalgamate the Community health departments of the Medical, Nursing, allied courses under our university for interdisciplinary teaching, training, and research activities.
- To promote a healthy & spiritual concept of living and encourage the anti-discrimination practice.
- To motivate students to become lifelong learners for generating and disseminating knowledge and nurturing creativity & intellectual gains
- To promote ethical and value-based learning, including community learning
- To foster the spirit of the education system and learning mechanism by attracting institutes in the nation and at the international level.
- To promote participatory health and wellness education amongst students, staff, and community
- To develop leadership quality among the students.
- To provide ongoing community health care services by conducting community outreach programmes in identified villages.
HOD Profile
Dr. Reshma Patil
M.B.B.S., D.P.H, M.D. (Community Medicine)
Experience
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.
Awards and Achievements
- Editorial board member of IJCRR from November 2021 https://www.ijcrr.com/editorial-board.php
- Resource faculty for course in “Research Methodology Workshop” for post graduate students from 2012- 2019 in BVDUMC, Pune
- Ist prize for poster presentation in National conference at MG Medical College, Aurangabad in 2015
- IInd prize in free paper presentation in XI Annual Research Society Conference, 2014 at Bharati Vidyapeeth University Medical College, Pune. Dr. Saroj Jha Best research paper Award on “Health Education and/or gender Issues” for research paper in Joint Annual Conference of Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine (IAPSM) Maharashtra Chapter in 2011
- Received recognition as Green Game Ambassador and appreciation of contribution in the III Commonwealth Youth Games Pune 2008
- Involved in training (TOT) on “Rollout of Rotavirus Vaccine in the Public Health System” for Medical officers and health workers working in Government sector at Junner, Maharashtra in October 2015
- Member of organizing committee for Maharashtra IPHA & IAPSM Joint Conference, 2015 organized on “Emerging Threats in Public Health” by Department of Community Medicine, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University Medical; College, Pune, Maharashtra held on 30th and 31stJanuary 2015
- Member of organizing committee for Preconference CME, 29th January 2015 On “Scientific Research Proposal Development” by Department of Community Medicine, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University Medical college, Pune, Maharashtra.
- Member of organizing committee for CME organized on “Vector Borne Diseases organized by Department of Community Medicine, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University Medical; College, Pune, Maharashtra held on 3rd August 2014.
- Co-organizing Secretary for CME organized on “Healthy Ageing” organized by department of Community Medicine, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra held on 4th April 2012
- Programme coordinator for Midterm Evaluation of Sure Start project, Solapur titled “Maternal and Newborn Health through Self Help Group – towards democratization of health care, A midterm study”, March 2009.
- She is a life member of professional bodies like Indian Association of Public health and Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine
Life memberships:
- Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine (IAPSM) – no: L- 4221.
- Indian Public Health Association (IPHA) – no: L/2014/TN/6728.
Paper Publications:
She has 28 paper publications in national and international journals and 1 Book chapter.
Outreach activity:
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.
Infrastructure Facilities
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.
Research Laboratory
Museum
Seminar Room
Library
Meet Our Faculty
Dr. Reshma Patil
MBBS, DPH, MD (Community Medicine)
Professor & HOD
reshma.patil@smcw.siu.edu.in
Dr. Priya Kulkarni
MBBS,MD , PhD Research Scholar (MUHS), PGDHRM, PGDCR, PGDQMHHO, PGD: Counselling, (Community Medicine)
Professor
commed.priyakulkarni@smcw.siu.edu.in
Dr. Jitendra Gupta
B.Sc., M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D. and UGC-NET (Med. Community Medicine)
Assistant Professor
jitendra.gupta@smcw.siu.edu.in
Dr. Mohammad Usman
M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D., UGC-NET (Med. Community Medicine)
Assistant Professor
mohd.usman@smcw.siu.edu.in
Dr. Aditi Dabir
MBBS, MD (Community Medicine)
Assistant Professor
aditi.dabir@smcw.siu.edu.in
Dr. Shraddha Bhondave
MBBS, MD (Community Medicine)
Assistant Professor
shraddha.bhondve@smcw.siu.edu.in
Dr. Amruta Barhate
MBBS, MD (Community Medicine)
Associate Professor
amruta.barhate@smcw.siu.edu.in
Dr. PRAMOD KULKARNI
MBBS, MD (Community Medicine)
Associate Professor
pramod.kulkarni@smcw.siu.edu.in
Dr. Sheena Memmen
MBBS MD (Community Medicine)
Associate Professor
sheena.memmen@smcw.siu.edu.in
Services
- The department is engaged in providing preventive, promotive, and curative services through the regular promotion of health and wellness activity, education in health & health promotion activities conducted for the population covered under area of the government-affiliated rural and urban health centres as rural health training centre (RHTC), and urban health training centre (UHTC).
- The services to the community are provided through the regular operation of mobile medical units (MMUs) visiting 35 villages covering outreach extension activities through the SCOPE department operated by the Department of Community Medicine under SMCW.
- It also provides the other components of service-learning, research, and health promotion methods for the benefit of the community at large.
- Regular water analysis of water coolers in SMCW, Inspection of all canteens and mess in SMCW campus, Maintenance of Sanitation in relation to Biomedical waste in SUHRC conducted through Sanitary Inspectors of department.
Research Publications
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.
Key Focus Areas
- health, including spiritual health
- lifestyle disorders and health
- mental health
- ergonomics at every stationed place
- yoga, physical exercise, meditation and diet
- time management
- communication for health needs, demands, education and health action at the community level
- research methods
- student centred learning environment at the classroom and in the field
- vulnerable population and their health measures including maternal and child health
- e-learning
- communicable and non-communicable diseases
- adolescent health
- environment and health