Patna Medical College

Principal : Dr. R. K.P.Singh

Year 2006 is 81-College Foundation Day of Patna Medical College, Patna along with Alumni Reunion. This institution has always been the torch bearer of medical education not only in India, but in whole of the Asia. It is one of the greatest pillars of the medical fraternity imparting medical education, research techniques, clinical expertise and social behaviour to both undergraduate and post graduate students. Beside this, it also imparts teaching to dental, nursing, Para medical and IGNOU students. This institution has always produced national and international level scholars, clinicians, scientists and social activists. Many of them are National and International awardees. Doctors of this institution are committed to poor and helpless and needy people.

This college is the mainstay for medical education and treatment to the masses, not only to this State, but the adjoining area of the neighboring States. Patna Medical College, Patna has glorious past and bright future. It was started in the year 1874 as Temple Medical School with total admission of 35 students per year. This trend continued upto 1925. After that, it was turned into the medical college named as Prince of Wales Medical College, Patna. The first batch of MBBS students were trained clinically at Calcutta Medical College, Calcutta. Institution in undivided India. Vertical Integrated and Horizontal Integrated teaching and weekly seminar in each department is regular feature in this Institution. This Institution has effective academic planning and activities for the teachers. Library is fully equipped with modern machine and electronic gadgets. Almost every PG students has been provided accommodation inside the Institution.

During last one year, many achievements have been added in the progress of this Institution. New PG hostels for 350 boys and 150 girls has been sanctioned besides 80 quarters for the nursing staffs and 250 staff quarters by the department of Health. Govt. of Bihar. Orientation Programme for the PG students has been made compulsory. For the first time the result of the first MBBS has been published within one year as prescribed by the Medical Council of India. Undergraduate students are regularly visiting the rural area under the banner of Department of PSM. Regular eye care camp, family planning camp, Cancer detection camp has been organized in Patna Medical College, Patna. ICU Medicine, Obstetric & Paediatric and Burn have been upgraded and modernised. Audiovisual aids like Laptop, LCD multimedia has been given to this year to Neuro surgery, Skin VD and Radiology also. State Training programme on Family Planning in the Department of Obst. & Gynaecology. Arthroscopy Training in Orthopaedics Department, state level workshop on Filarial, Kala-azar, Infectious Diseases were held in the Department of Paediatric under the guidance of Dr. (Mrs.) S.R. Choudhary and Dr. N.P. Narain in which many pediatrician from outside and inside the state participated. Disabled day was organised by the department of PMR. World Tobacco Day was organised under the banners of PSM & Psychiatry.

The teachers, who joined Patna Medical College, Patna are Dr. (Mrs.) S.R. Choudhary, Professor of Paediatrics, Dr. Achal Narain Roy, Professor of Biochemistry, Dr. (Mrs.) Sushila Rao, Professor of Pharmacology, Dr. Sudhir Kumar, Professor of Surgery, Dr. (Mrs.) Shashi Sinha, Professor of PSM, Dr. Vimal Mukesh, Associate Professor of Surgery, Dr. Virendra Prasad Sinha, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Dr. Ram Naresh Yadav, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Dr. Akshay Kumar Sinha Assistant Professor of PMR, Dr. (Mrs.) Chitra Singh & Dr. (Mrs.) Minu Saran, Assistant Professor of Obst. & Gynae, Dr. Niranjan Kumar Baidya, Dr. Amrendra Roy Choudhary, Dr. Subodh Kumar, Tutor, Department of Anatomy, Dr. Sujit Kumar Sinha, Dr. (Mrs.) Jyoti Srivastava, Dr. (Mrs.) Rita Kumari Tutor, Department of Physiology, Dr. Brind Kumar Singh Tutor, Department of Biochemistry, Dr. Vidyasagar Prasad Singh, Dr. Maheswar Prasad, Tutor, Department of Pharmacology, Dr. Sudhir, Dr. Suman Kumar Tutor, Department PSM, Dr. Arun Kumar Singh, Tutor, Department of FMT, Dr. Ganesh Prasad, Dr. Naresh Kumar Srivastava, Tutor, Department of Pathology and Dr. Krishna Murari Prasad, Tutor, Department of Microbiology.

Dr. M. L. Verma, Principal, Patna Medical College, Patna has represented this Institution to the Ministry of Health for the setting-up of a Molecular Biology in Patna Medical College, Patna which will deal with genetic problems. Many achievements have taken place by the faculty members of Patna Medial College. Dr. Vijay Prakash, Professor & HOD Medicine was invited and participated in United European Gastroenterology Week held at Prague and also delivered guest lectures at St. John’s Hospital, Bangalore and many other Institutions in India. Dr. A. K. Agrawal, Prof. of Neuro Surgery was invited to deliberate at World Congress of Neurology at Sydney, Australia in December 05. Dr. Vijay Achari, Associate Professor of Medicine delivered the scientific paper at National Conference, Dr. Anil Kumar Pandey, Professor of Neuro Medicine, who has also joined as Superintendent, PMCH, Patna has delivered the lecture in All India Conference. Dr. Chandrashekhar, HOD of ENT has presented the paper in National Conference in Mumbai and Bangalore, It is proud that Kranti Bhawana PG student of the ENT Department has secured first in the dissection competition in ENT at Mumbai. Dr. P. N. Pandit, Associate Professor of Radiotherapy presented paper in Oncology Conference at Ahmedabad, presented a paper in the conference of Association of Gynaecological, Oncology in Patna. Dr. Ajit Kumar Verma has been elected as the member of Governing Council of the Ministry of Social Justice, New Delhi. Dr. Shankar Prakash, Professor & HOD Microbiology had been invited by European Commission to deliver lecture on Kala-zar at Austria and was course director and trainer to train Doctors from all over Bihar at Bihar Aids Control Bhawan. Dr. Mithilesh Kumar, Professor and HOD Radiotherapy has been elected as Vice President of the Association of Radiation Oncology of India, Dr. R. N. Sharma, Professor and HOD Pharmacology worked as a Medical Council of India Inspector of various medical colleges. Dr. Sahjanand Prasad Singh, Department of Surgery, has been elected Vice President of Bihar Medical Association. Dr. Rashmi Singh and Dr. Ashok Shankar Singh attended 3 days workshop on RNTCP in AIIMS, New Delhi. Dr. Rana Narendra Kumar Singh of PSM department attended 15 days workshop on Revised National Training Programme on T.B. at Bangalore. Dr. R.N. Sharma and Dr. (Mrs.) Rashmi Singh were included in Special Task Force for Prevention of Filaria by Govt. of Bihar. They conducted CME Programme at SHIFW and PMCH, Patna as Resource Persons. Dr. P. K. Singh, Associate Professor of Psychiatric Department was one of the main Speaker at Annual CME programme of East Zone of Indian Psychiatric Society. Dr. (Mrs.) S. R. Choudhary is Incharge of Vertical Integrated Teaching of Patna Medical College, Patna, Dr. R. R. Prasad of Physiology Department has been elected as Chief Editor of Patna Medical Journal. Dr. Arjun Singh Professor & HOD, Orthopaedics conducted CME programme in Orthopaedics twice in this year. Dr. (Mrs.) Sheela Sharma, Prof. & HOD, Obst. & Gynae has attended the three weeks workshops on Recanalisation of Fallopian Tube at Chennai. Dr. R.K.P. Choudhary, Prof. & HOD, Skin & VD and Dr. Amar Kant Jha Amar, Associate Professor presented the paper at All Indian Dermatology Conference at Mumbai. Dr. D. K. Sinha, Associate Professor of Orthopaedics presented the paper on Spinal cord Injury at the International conference at Taiwan.