Department Overview
The Department of Surgery is situated on the 4th floor of the Symbiosis Medical College for Women on the picturesque Lavale Hill-base Campus. The department contributes actively in the fields of education, research and service. The department is equipped to educate the National and International Medical students in all branches of Surgery and their applied aspects.
Vision
We envision the surgery department to be a leader in providing highest quality economical surgical care to the patients and a centre of excellence in holistic surgical education and research for the students
Mission
- To ensure quality surgical care through discovery, innovation and research, while being compassionate, economical and accessible
- To ensure highest quality training & education supervised by competent teaching staff
- TTo inspire the next generation of 'complete' surgeons
- To enable students to; practise as a physician of first contact, or enter into speciality training.
HOD Profile
Dr. Pankaj H Bansode
MBBS, MS, FICS, FIAGES, E FIAGES
Experience
He has done his specialization in general surgery apart from various Fellowships & trainings. He additionally is an accomplished laparoscopic surgeon and has an extensive experience in the field of surgery and medical education, Teaching is his passion. He has worked in the reputed medical colleges like Grant Medical College & JJ Group of hospitals, TNMC & Nair Hospital in Mumbai and Bharati Vidyapeeth Medical College in Pune. He has a teaching experience of 20 years in the field of surgery.
Awards & Achievements
- He has administrative skills and has been a part of institutional Committees of NAAC, UGC, MCI.
- He has expertise in MCI Inspection documentation. He is a life member of various professional bodies. He is tech savvy (developed a website for surgery department before) and has a knack for setting up new services (Set up of Endoscopy Unit, Telemedicine Unit), and organising events (ICS -ISCON, FIAGES, Hernia Update, Alumni meet)
Presentations:
He is a researcher with publications in national & international journals. He is also PG Guide for students of MS Surgery since 2013. He has completed research projects and a few are ongoing at present. He believes in keeping himself abreast of the latest skills & knowledge, by presenting papers & giving lectures in various conferences
Outreach activity
- He is actively involved in social work & health camps.
Infrastructure Facilities
1. Department
- Fully Air-conditioned Individual Cabins for all faculty members, with desk space for residents
- Departmental library
- Office
- Room for Non Teaching staff
- Museum
- Equipped with personal computers with internet connection, phones. Common Printer facility
- Other amenities
2. OPD Complex
- Computerized Reception Desk
- Patient seating area with LED screen for information dissemination to patients
- 4 patient examination rooms
- Phone & Computer enabled with Internet & HMIS
- Examination beds, with necessary equipment for examination i.e. sphygmomanometer, stethoscopes, proctoscope, torch, measuring tape etc.
- X-ray viewing box
- Fully equipped dressing rooms one each for males and females
- Minor OT with attached changing rooms for patients and staff
- Clinical demonstration room with seating arrangement for 25 students, whiteboard, patient examination bed
3. Inpatient Department
- Spacious and well- ventilated wards with bed strength of 30 each with minimum 1.5 m distance between each bed. 2 Such wards for male surgical Patients and 1 ward for female surgical patients
- Attached examination and procedure rooms for each ward with patient examination bed and dressing trolley
- Attached clinical demonstration room and duty doctor room for each ward
- 2 nursing desks with computerised HMIS, and phones
- Attached pantry
4. Operation Theatre Complex
- 4 spacious modular operation theatres with laminar flow
- Equipped for performing all major and minor surgical procedures with facilities for laparoscopic surgery, C-arm
- Pre-anaesthesia check-up room with 5 beds
- Pre operative holding area, post operative for post operative monitoring 10 beds
- Attached OT pharmacy and storage area
- Separate lounges for doctors and other staff
- Separate changing areas for male and female doctors and other staff
5.Casualty
- Holding area for 6 patients with oxygen beds
- Fully equipped minor OT with Boyle's machine
- Computerised nursing desk with ABG machine
- Duty doctor's room
6. Ancillary facilities
- Endoscopy suite
- Radiology suite
- Blood bank
- Laboratory services
Meet Our Faculty
Dr. Pankaj Bansode
MBBS, MS (General Surgery),FICS- IS, FIAGES, E-FIAGES.
Professor & HOD
Pankaj.bansode@smcw.siu.edu.in
Dr. Avishkar Barase
MBBS, MS (General Surgery)
Professor
avishkar.barase@smcw.siu.edu.in
Dr. Sangram Jadhav
MBBS, MS (General Surgery)
Professor
sangram.jadhav@smcw.siu.edu.in
Dr. Pradeep Bansode
MBBS, MS (General Surgery)
Assistant professor
pradeep.bansode@smcw.siu.edu.in
Dr. Kshitij Kirane
MCh (Urology), DNB (General Surgery), MBBS
Assistant professor
kshitij.kirane@smcw.siu.edu.in
Dr. Dhairyashil B Patil
MBBS MS, DNB,(General Surgery), DNB (Surgical Oncology), FMAS
Assistant Professor
Dr. Raiba Deshmukh
MBBS, MS (General Surgery)
Associate Professor
raiba.deshmukh@smcw.siu.edu.in
Dr. Rutik Paresh Gandhi
MBBS MS (General Surgery) FMAS
Associate Professor
rutik.gandhi@smcw.siu.edu.in
Research Publications
All the faculty members are regularly involved in research and have many publications to their credit in various National and International journals.
Services
Services provided:
- Outpatient services
- In patient services
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Surgical treatment for
- Abdominal problems like appendicitis, gall bladder stones, cholecystitis, cancer of stomach, small intestine, colon, rectum, renal stones, difficult hepato-pancreatico-biliary diseases
- Perianal problems like fissures, fistula, abscess
- Hernia, hydrocoele, other problems related to external genitalia
- Thyroid, breast and endocrine organs
- Oncological cases
- Trauma
- Diabetic foot care and infections like cellulitis, abscess
- Wound management
- Lesions like lipoma, sebaceous cyst, ganglion cysts, dermoid cysts
- Non-surgical treatment for
- Acid peptic disease, pancreatitis, hydatid cyst of liver, liver abscess, portal hypertension, renal stones and
- Many other major as well as minor ailments
- Emergency & Trauma Care
- Endoscopy Services
Key Focus Areas
- Develop surgical ICU to be managed by the surgical team and the anaesthesia team
- Regarding Major surgeries / critically ill surgical patients – revision / teaching programmes for the junior surgeons / houseman and nursing staff
- Focus on basic clinical signs rather than investigation oriented management
- Revision and review of and focus on fluid-electrolyte, acid-base balance, circulatory shock, nutrition (Total parenteral nutrition, parenteral hyperalimentation, enteral - tube- feeding).
- Rational use of antibiotics and Avoiding excessive use of medicines
- Develop Urosurgery and Oncosurgery and Paediatric surgery and Plastic surgery sub-specialities; Operation theatre requirements, ICU requirements
- Designate and develop area for treating burns patients
- Develop surgery under local anaesthesia and nerve blocks – in association with the anaesthesia team - train junior surgeons
- Revisit post-mortem room and anatomy dissection hall – to revise anatomy
- Develop “Surgery Museum” – not only specimens but also depicting history of medicine, surgery and anaesthesia and many more things
- Prepare display boards for patients and their relatives – in OPD area and waiting lounge of operation theatres.
- Decorate ward areas - should look serene and pristine, mentally smoothening for patients and their relatives
- Identify those undergraduate students who are deeply interested in surgery and groom them with additional / special efforts.
- To develop surgical skills lab, animal & cadaveric dissection labs for training.
- To start PG course in surgery
- To start post doctoral fellowship course in GI surgery, Endoscopy, Minimal access surgery.
- To conduct short term and long term certificate courses on various aspects of surgery.
- Long term plan to start super speciality courses ( M.Ch )