General Medicine

Vision statement: To develop a state of the art, internationally acclaimed department of internal medicine.

Mission statement: The Department of Medicine all Indian institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh has been a pioneer Department add this Institute of national importance since inception. The Department was established in 2013 and they started functioning its clinical services in 2014. This Department has been the cornerstone of clinical services in internal medicine and all allied sub specialities and remain the main source for deciphering services in the field of Cardiology, neurology, gastroenterology, nephrology and other medical sub-specialties till they started functioning as independent Department. The Department has been ranked as one of the best department at AIIMS Rishikesh, the Department is structurally functioning as a single unit with multiple specialty clinics attached to individual faculty member. Various clinical services being delivered through its special clinics are diabetes, geriatrics, rheumatology, lifestyle diseases and infectious diseases. Department is having dietetics Attached to it both in OPD and IPD for dietary counseling and nutritional care of patients. Department is running general medicine OPD in the morning hours. The specialty clinics are being run in the afternoon. Between 2:00 to 4:00 PM the frequency of these clinics are wearing from weekly business to almost five days a week. The Department is envisioned to achieve few centers of excellence in various domains of clinical, research and academic.

Faculty

Name & Qualifications	Designation	Areas of Interest	Email ID / ORCID ID / Research-gate Page
Dr. Ravi Kant	Professor & Head	Clinical :- Research :-	drkantr2006@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1144-4478
Dr. Venkatesh S M.B.B.S, M.D Internal Medicine(PGI), D.M Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology(SGPGI)	Additional Professor	Clinical :- Rheumatic and autoimmune disorders Research :- RA, SLE, SpA	pai.med@aiimsrishikesh.edu.in https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5935-8627 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Venkatesh_S_Pai
Dr. Prasan Kumar Panda M.D.	Additional Professor	Clinical :- Internal Medicine,Infection diseases: Covid-19, Dengue, Chikungunya, H1N1, Leishmaniasis, Enteric fever, Scrub typhus, Cysticercosis, Diarrhea,Upper respiratory tract infections, FUO, Critical care Fever, Sepsis, Shock, Hemoohagocytic syndrome in infections Antimicrobial Stewrdship(5) Public health policy on infections diseases Research :- Infection diseases, Antimicrobial Stewrdship	prasan.med@aiimsrishikesh.edu.in https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3008-7245 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Prasan_Panda
Dr. Mukesh Chand Bairwa	Additional Professor	Clinical :- Research :- Critical care	drmukeshbairwa1982@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8974-5775
Dr. Darab Singh Underwal	Assistant Professor	Clinical :- Research :-	drdrbsingh2@gmail.com

Photo	Name & Qualifications	Designation	Areas of Interest	Email ID / ORCID ID / Research-gate Page

Services

Services Available in the department:

Outpatients department: Total No. of patients consulted from 01.04.2017 to 31.03.2018-79,823 OPD services are being provided to patients on weekdays from 9:00 am and finished when all patients are seen. Patients with all communicable and non-communicable diseases are seen here. Minor procedures like giving intra-articular injections given in OPD under all sterile conditions.
Specialty Clinics/ services (Diagnostic and/or Therapeutic)
- Schedule- day and consultant wise
In-patients department: 87 BEDS C1,C2,C3.
Procedures (Diagnostic and/or Therapeutic) offered by the department:
- Hemodialysis, Invasive ventilation, Nanochecker
- What are they aimed at? Improvement of patient care decreasing morbidity and mortality in them.
- Photographs of the instruments during the procedure
- Surgeries offered for the surgical departments

Statistics

Courses & Short term Trainings

Name of the course	Duration of course	Present number of students	Objectives/ brief description of the course
MBBS	5Years 6 Months	100
MD, Medicine	3 Years	44
MD, Geriatrics	3 Years	1
PDCC , Geriatrics	1 Years	1
PDCC in lifestyle disease management	1 Years	2	Course details: Name of the course: Post Doctoral Certificate Course (PDCC) in lifestyle disease management Duration: One year Number: Two students per year Eligibility: The course is open for candidates holding MD Medicine/MD Community and Family Medicine/MD Pharmacology Age limit : 35 years (as on 1st January of admission year), Learning objectives: To bring desirable and positive change in knowledge ,skills,attitude in the learner,in managing common lifestyle related diseases 2. Inculcate evidence based research among the doctors in lifestyle diseases to provide best available care to patients affected by lifestyle disorders. Take the lifestyle disease care from hospital door to community with an integrative approach. To provide well trained , complete ,basic medical doctor with a holistic and scientific approach to the health care system. Lay the foundation of trained doctors for “wellness clinic “ proposed by the government for prevention of non communicable diseases
D.M Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology	3 Years	1	To increase the number of trained rheumatologists in the country – manage rheumatic and autoimmune diseases with reasonable expertise, lab training, research in the field & teaching skills in rheumatology.
Fellowship in Diabetes	1 Years
PhD	2 Years	3

Name of the course	Curriculum	Duration of course	Present number of students	Objectives/ brief description of the course

Research

Projects

Title	Site-Investigators	Principal Investigator	Collaboration, if any (Department and institute)	Funding Agency	Projects Status
Generation of recombinant monoclonal antibodies for prophylactic and therapeutic use in Chikungunya virus infection Reference Number IA/I/20/2/505221	Dr. Minakshi Dhar	Dr. Soma Rohtagi (Asst. Professor) IIT Roorkee	IIT Roorkee	Welcome Trust	Submitted
Study of leishmaniasis and sandfly in upstream belts of the Ganga and Yamuna of Uttrakhand Himalayas.	Dr. Minakshi Dhar	Dr. P.K Panda	DBT/Welcome Trust India	Welcome Trust	Submitted
HTA of National stroke Care registry Programme development of hospital based Stroke Registries (HBSR) in different regions of India	Dr. Minakshi Dhar		ICMR		Submitted
IMPETU Stroke Implementation of an Evaluation and Treatment Package for Uniform Stroke Care and outcome in India. An Implementation Research Study	Dr. Minakshi Dhar	Dr. Neeraj Kuamr	Multicentre study , AIIMS New Delhi	ICMR	Submitted
Covid -19 Well- Being Among Quarantine, Covid-19 Positive Patients And Front Line Healthcare Workers.	Dr. Minakshi Dhar	Dr. Rag	Multicentre study , CCRYN	CCYRN	Submitted
yoga as a prophylaxis intervention in Covid-19 suspected quarantine cases and frontline healthcare workers involved in Management of COVID-19 patients	Dr. Minakshi Dhar	Dr. Ragvendra Director CCYRN	Multicentre study	CCYRN	Submitted
Development and testing of Smart Wearable Pod for long term in-vivo monitoring of physiological parameter	Dr. Ravi Kant			IIT, Roorkee	Ongoing
Non-invasive Glucose Monitoring Using IR and Optical Cameras in collaboration	Dr. Ravi Kant			IIT, Roorkee	Ongoing
The acute heart failure registry study in India CURE-HF study – co investigator with SRM university Chennai Multicentric study	Dr. Monika Pathania	Dr. Melvin George	SRM university Chennai Multicentric study	SRM	Ongoing
To study the association and expression of IL-33 levels with clinical and laboratory characteristics of rheumatoid arthritis	Dr. Venkatesh S Pai	Dr. Manju Ohri Pai		Women Scientist project funded by DST of Dr. Manju Ohri Pai	Ongoing
HTA of Nation stroke Care registry Programme development of hospital based Stroke Registries (HBSR) in different regions of India	Dr. Minakshi Dhar	Dr. Neeraj Kuamr	ICMR	ICMR NCDIR	Ongoing
Harmonized Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia (DAD) for Longitudinal Aging Study of India (LASI) is a Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Project	Dr. Minakshi Dhar	Dr. AB. Dey	AIIMS, Delhi	NHA	Completed
Prevalence, pattern and prevention of skeletal and dental fluorosis in district Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand.	Dr. Minakshi Dhar	Dr. Vartika		UC Cost	Completed
Effect of an integrated Yoga program on stress, mood states, sleep quality, symptom severity, quality of life and clinical outcomes in Covid19 positive patients undergoing conventional treatment.	Dr. Minakshi Dhar		Multi Centre Study Department of Science and Technology		Completed
Ventilator associated pneumonia in elderly.	Dr. Ravi Kant				Completed
ICMR Project A study to assess the consumption pattern of food/ Products high in fat, salt and sugar in selected cities/ rural areas of India	Dr. Ravi Kant			ICMR	Completed
Efficacy, Feasibility and Acceptability of continuous glucose monitoring system in comparison to Glucometer based approach in diabetic patients on Insulin therapy in hilly areas of Uttarakhand state.	Dr. Ravi Kant			UCOST	Completed
Affordable Treatment for diabetic patients with consistent monitoring for project affected area/Rishikesh Area/Nearby Area	Dr. Ravi Kant			THDC	Completed
Effect of Non-Pharmacological intervention among cardiovascular risk patient in selected rural Areva of Rishikesh.	Dr. Ravi Kant			THDC	Completed
Effectiveness of Ayurveda treatment for Urdhwag amlapitta (Uninvestigated dyspepsis) – A Randomized Double Blind Placebo Control Study.	Dr. Ravi Kant			AYUSH	Completed
Effect of hypertension on cognition assessed through p-300 scoring	Dr.Monika Pathania, Guide to PG Dissertation				Completed
Study of correlation between clinical profile of patients non alcoholic fatty liver disease and metabolic syndrome	Dr.Monika Pathania, Guide, sts project ICMR			ICMR	Completed
Assessment of sleep Qality,quality of life and lifestyle related parameters in hypertensive subjects at a tertiary care hospital	Dr.Monika Pathania, Guide, sts project ICMR			ICMR	Completed

Projects (Extramural)

Title	Site-Investigators	Principal Investigator	Intramural/ Extramural	Collaboration, if any (Department and institute)	Funding Agency	Projects Status

Projects (Intramural)

Title	Site-Investigators	Principal Investigator	Intramural/ Extramural	Collaboration, if any (Department and institute)	Funding Agency	Projects Status

Collaboration

Collaboration for	Collaboration with Department and institute	Services offered/ work undergoing in collaboration
The acute heart failure registry study in India CURE-HF study- Dr. Monika Pathania	SRM university ,Chennai	Registry study

Collaboration for	Collaboration with Department and institute	Services offered/ work undergoing in collaboration

Expansion plan

Expansion planned for the future:

Clinical Services:

Dr. Minakshi Dhar – To develop centre of excellence for Geriatric care centre, – To start teleconferencing with peripheral centers involved in Geriatric care
Dr Ravi Kant, To develop center of excellence in Diabetes and metabolic syndrome.
Dr. Monika Pathania, Increase frequency of life disease clinic.
Dr. Venktesh S. Pai, To have a full-fledged Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology Clinic, Rheumatology/ Immunology Lab and Department.

Academics and teaching:

Dr. Minakshi Dhar- To start a DM course in Hospital Medicine and Critical care
Dr. Monika Pathania, Starting PDCC
Dr. Venktesh S. Pai, To have regular Academic SRs in the department, regular seminars, journal clubs, clinical bedsides
Dr. Mukesh Chand Bairwa- To start a PDCC course in Critical care

Research:

Dr. Ravi Kant, Establish advance diagnostic endocrine lab.
Dr. Venketesh S. Pai, To have regular research associates, PhD students and research activity in the department