SKIMS to display academic calibre
Samaan Lateef
Tribune News Service
Srinagar, August 10
The Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Srinagar, is starting a four-month-long grand round to showcase excellence in academics and technology.
The grand rounds will start on August 12 when doctors of the Clinical Hematology Department will discuss specific clinical problems of patients at the SKIMS auditorium. “The grand rounds are regular academic exercises. They are amphitheatre rounds, not bedside rounds, aimed at showcasing the academic, technical and research advancements of various departments,” said Professor of Surgery Dr Fazl Q Parray, who is also the convener of the event.
The grand rounds are an important teaching tool and a ritual of medical education and inpatient care. During the grand rounds, medical problems and treatment of a particular patient are presented to an audience consisting of doctors, residents and medical students.
It was started at the SKIMS in 2005 by former SKIMS director late Dr Sheikh Jalal-ud-Din and has since been a regular feature at the institute. A senior resident of every department presents the work and advancements of the department during the event. The event is moderated and conducted by a senior faculty member, who is well acquainted with the advancements in general medicine.
“There are knowledge updates and interaction between the doctors which ultimately helps in improving the healthcare system,” Dr Fazl Q Parray said.
The objective, Dr Parray said, was to demonstrate the best in analysis and treatment of difficult clinical problems. “The patient remains our link between the current research and modern therapeutics,” he said. Dr Parray said another component of the grand round was the mortality meet, which was also conducted every Friday.
In the mortality meet, he said, the committee of experts selects the files of the patients who died in a particular month at the hospital. “We go through the files and see whether there has been any negligence on part of the doctors. The whole exercise is to bring accountability,” he said.
