OVERVIEW
Welcome to saurastra’s most popular eye health care services.
Vision:To be a global leader in vision health by delivering and advancing innovation, integration, and excellence in education, research and clinical practice.
MissionTo provide saurastra‘s best eye health care to patient by services and research and to doctor by education and skill development.
- serve students by being in constant touch with eye world leaders , academic and professional fraternity evolve ourselves and students to meet the challenging requirements of the even –changing environment .
- provide adequate infrastructure for carrying out teaching skill and research works.
- Educating and mentoring the new generation of clinicians, teachers and students;
- Conducting high impact research, generating innovative technology that includes informatics, and translating discovery to high-quality patient care;
- Forming public policy to the eye care needs of society, and improving the health of individuals and populations locally and globally through our qualitative and quantitative workaholic determination.
TEACHING/TRAINING ACTIVITIES:
The curriculum has been prepared in pursuance of MCI regulations and commences in the 3rd semester of the MBBS program and continues up to 7th semester. Students are posted in department of Ophthalmology for 3 hours, in batches for learning clinical skills, every day for each semester as per the recommendations of MCI, and encouraged to practice practice these skills on patients under direct guidance of faculty. Lectures, small group discussion and problem based tutorial are also organized for development of comprehension, analysis and communication skills. Students are also encouraged to participate in regular bedside clinic and integrated seminar; case presentation skill sessions are also organized for undergraduate students.
FACILITIES AND SERVICES: DEPARTMENT OF OPTHEMOLOGY HAS BEEN PROVIDED WITH-- Lecture hall in hospital
- Demonstration room
- Clinical teaching in OPD
- Department Library
- Audio-visual teaching Aids with LCD projector for power point presentations of didactic Lectures / Seminars, OHP projector, facilities of Internet connection for Faculty, SLR camera for operative, clinical and research photograph.
- Surgical Museum with mounted specimens, catalogues, photographs and potraits of emineiant Ophthalmic surgeons
- Out Patient service having separate consultation rooms for faculty, refraction room, facilities for minor Operation Theater, auto primary room ,pediatric ophthalmology room.
- Routine cataract, retina disease screening, and glaucoma screening service in and outside of hospital, also all kinds of treatments, in ophthalmology including oculoplasty , squint etc. in additional to above.
- Emergency department after OPD hours for accident and emergency.
- Indoor ophthalmic surgery male and female wards with free medicine, foods and laboratory and radiological investigation.
- Dedicated Modular Operation Theaters for routine and emergency surgery
- Outreach surgical activities though regular Camps , conducted in a remote area and Free transport for patients, require admission for surgery in hospital
- Periodically organized camps at peripheral areas around Amreli and remote areas to reach to the poorest blind population, as a part of multi-diagnostic camps.