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Faculty Members: Dr. Mihir Kumar Goswami. Assoc Prof.  General Medicine Dr. Kyrshanlang G. Lyngrah, Asst. Prof. General Medicine Dr. Molly Thabah Asst. Prof. General Medicine. Email: mthabah[at]yahoo[dot]com Academics           The Department is involved in regular ward discussions, seminars, journal review and interdepartmental case discussions, seminars.  The Department is also involved in teaching programmes of B Sc Nursing students of the College of Nursing.  Recently MBBS course have also been started in NEIGRIHMS and the Faculty and Senior Resident of the Department are engaged actively in teaching the Under Graduate students by taking both theory and practical classes.  Presently the 2nd Year MBBS students are on clinical postings in both the Wards.           The Department is regularly organizing in-house teaching programme for the benefit of Resident Doctors both Senior & Junior.  The schedule is as follows : (1) Journal Club : Every fortnightly on Tuesday at 2:30 PM by a Senior Resident for one hour.  The session is chaired by one of the Faculty members of the Department (2) Case presentation : Every fortnightly on Friday at 2:30 PM by a Junior Resident Doctor.  The above mentioned teaching programmes are also actively participated by other Departments like Pediatrics depending upon their conveniences. (3)     Schedule of teaching Round :   Unit I Unit II Monday Dr. M M Thabah Dr. K G Lynrah Tuesday Dr. M K Goswami Do Wednesday Dr. M M Thabah Do Thursday Dr. M K Goswami Do Friday Dr M M Thabah Do Saturday Dr. M K Goswami Do There are minor variations in the above mentioned schedule in case of Medicine Unit II as Dr. K G Lynrah also involved as the Endoscopist and training the Senior Resident regarding the endoscopy.  The Department’s faculty is involved in Under Graduate Teaching programme by taking (i) Clinics and (2) theory classes.  Every day the classes started at 10:00 AM and continue till 1:00 PM.  The following Faculty and Resident were involved in taking these classes,   (1) Dr. M K Goswami, (2) Dr. K G Lynrah,  (3) Dr. M M Thabah, (4) Dr. Purabi Borah (5) Dr. R Barman.           Clinics Schedule of Department of General Medicine (2nd Year MBBS)   Time  -    10:00 AM to 01:00 PM Monday Dr. K G Lynrah Tuesday Dr. M K Goswami Wednesday Dr. K G Lynrah Thursday Dr. N Momin Friday Dr M M Thabah Saturday Dr. M K Goswami Services The Department of General Medicine runs OPD six days a week from Monday to Saturday. The Department caters services for Respiratory, Endocrinology/ Metabolic, Rheumatology, Hematological, Nephrology, Neurological and Infectious diseases. After the lone faculty of Gastroenterology left the Institute, the Gastroenterology services in relation to patient’s care and others like investigations are being provided by the Department of Medicine including the Endoscopy. The Indoor services were started from 14th May 2007           Presently the Department is divided into two Units for better patients care and services.  Each Unit have got a bed strength of 34 which includes both male and female.  The endoscopic examination facilities is attached with Medicine Unit II located in (-1) level of the Hospital building.           6 (six) numbers of Haemodialysis machines have also been installed in the third floor of the Hospital building near the ICU complex and the services                                    are expected to start very shortly.  As there is no Nephrologist presently working in NEIGRIHMS these machines are under the Department of Medicine.  Total Inpatients      - 1st  April 2009 to 31st March 2010 - 3787  Total Outpatients   - 1st April 2009 to 31st March 2010 – 38442 Specialized Procedure           Peritoneal dialysis  - 48           Spirometry            - 93 Peritoneal & pleural aspiration, bone marrow aspiration and biopsy lumber puncture are performed as per case indications. Statistics for the year ending 2009-2010 for Medicine I & Medicine II   Month Medicine I Medicine II Inpatients Outpatients Inpatients Outpatients April 2009 154 1815 152 1366 May 2009 230 2682 194 1674 June 2009 198 2835 191 1978 July 2009 198 1135 162 2000 August 2009 187 2428 153 1590 September 2009 178 1805 138 1718 October 2009 176 1616 142 1544 November 2009 168 1583 140 1340 December 2009 150 1465 136 1298 January 2010 126 997 120 1079 February 2010 115 870 103 997 March 2010 149 1271 127 1356 Total 2029 20502 1758 179 The Department provided Investigative Facility through its endoscopy section   2008 - 2009 2009 - 2010 UGI endoscopy 2232 2789 LGI endoscopy 154 165 Endoscopic Biopsy 335 477 Endoscopic Variceal Ligation 21 22 Ongoing Research Projects 1.       A comparative study of Uncomplicated Malaria (Falciparum and Falciparum with Vivax) with quinine Monotherapy Vs Combination Therapy with quinine and Artemesinin. 2.       A Hospital based study on effect of Pulmonary Function Test and exercise tolerance in patients of COPD & other Diseases.           The above mentioned research project had been received reviewed by the concerned authority of the Institute like Institutional Ethics Committee, subject to final approval. Details of Individual activities by the faculty members of the Department : 1.  Dr. Mihir Kumar Goswami, Associate Professor & I/ C      Department of General Medicine Achievement during April 2009 – March 2010 1.  Presented a paper entitles “Swine flu: a challenge to public health” under the aegis of Meghalaya Medical Services Association at Shillong Club on 20.09.09. 2.  Presented a paper on “Hypertension and pregnancy” at VIIth  North East Zonal Meeting of CSI held in Dibrugarh on 17.11.09 to 19.11.09. 3.  Chairperson of a scientific session (Hepatology) of National Annual Conference of Indian Railways Association of Physicians of India held in North Eastern Frontier Railways Headquarters at Maligoan; Guwahati. 4.  Chairperson of a scientific session in the CME on AIDS held in Down Town Hospital (Guwahati) on 11.11.09. 5.  Chairperson of the Scientific session on sudden heart attack at 11th International Annual Conference of Emergency Medicine Society of India held at Guwahati in November 2009. 6   Delivered a lecture on “Hypertension; various aspects of management” under the aegis of Association of Physicians of India; Meghalaya State Chapter at Pinewood Hotel on 16.01.10. 7. Chairperson of the scientific session on Infection controls at Annual National Conference of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine held in Hyderabad from 08.02.10 to 10.02.10. CME attended 1.  65th Annual Conference of Association of Physicians of India held at Jaipur (Rajasthan) in January 2010. 2.  Annual Conference of Indian Society for Critical Care Medicine held in Hyderabad in February 2010. Publications 1.  Dr Goswami M K.  “The AIDS Wasting Syndrome: in Medicine Update Vol XII 2009, API Assam Chapter; pp 72-92. 2. Dr. Goswami M K – Meningococcal Meningitis in Annual Souvenir of Meghalaya Medical Services Association. 3. Medical Science and Neurotherapy; Annual Journal of LMNT Institute; Mumbai – 80 w.w.w.dlnmt. org; pp 68 – 70. 4. MMSA Souvenir Meningitis; an overview in the context of Meghalaya situation; pp 24 – 34. 5. Goswami Dr. M K. Sudden Death; pp 27–34 Souvenir; 11th Annual International Conference Society for emergency Medicine in India.   2.  Dr. K G Lynrah, Assistant Professor,      Department of General Medicine (Medicine II) Publications Lynrah KG, Barman R, Chakravarty K, Gumbo M.  Biliary ascariasis in Medicine Update Vol. XII 2009, API Assam Chapter; 139-140  Training Resource person for the training of Medical Officers on Vector borne diseases held on 27th – 29th January and 22nd to 24th March 2010. 3.  Dr. Molly M Thabah, Assistant Professor      Department of General Medicine      Date of joining – 26th April 2010 CME attended 1.     3rd National Rheumatology Seminar held at New Delhi from 1st to 2nd August 2009. 2.     Participated as faculty in the IRACON 2009, the annual conference of the Indian Rheumatology Association, held at Jaipur 26th to 29th November 2009 Publications 1.     Sharma SK, Gupta V, Kadhiravan T, Banga A, Seith A, Kumar A, Saxena R, Thabah MM, et al. A prospective study of risk factor profile and incidence if deep vein thrombosis among medically-ill hospitalized patients at a tertiary care hospital in northern India. Indian J Med Res 2009; 130: 726-730 2.     Gupta R, Thabah MM, Subrahmaniam S, Kumar A.  A study of anticardiolipin antibodies in Indian scleroderma patients.  Accepted for publication in Rheumatology International (Experiments and Investigations) 7th August 2009. Resident Training 1.  PG seminar is held regularly in the Department which includes journal club, case discussion etc.  Seminar were also held in liaison with the Department of Pediatric for the benefit of the Resident Doctors. Community Services 1.       Dr. M Danny Hek, SR and Dr. Numal Momin, SR participated in the health Mela organized by the Meghalaya Pensioners Association held at Pdengshakhap, Jaintia Hills District on 24th October 2009. 2. Health camp organized for the benefit of staff and family members of CBI Office, Shillong on 24th October 2009 was attended by Resident Doctors and Faculties of the Department. 3. Dr. Rintu Barman and Dr. Michi Gumbo participated in a one day sensitization training of officials and NGOs on “Empowerment at Elderly” held on 1st March 2010 at the Conference Hall at Raitong Building, Main Secretariat. 4.       Diabetes detection and Follow up camp was organized on the occasion of World Diabetes Day on 14th November 2009 at Army Cantonment Board was attended by Senior Residents and Faculties of the Department.