| Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences | |
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| Established | 1983 |
| Type | Public |
| Director | Prof R.K.Sharma[1] |
| Location | Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Website | www.sgpgi.ac.in |
Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) is a premier medical institute of India located in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. It was established in 1983 and is named after Sanjay Gandhi.[2]
The institute is on a 550 acres (2.2 km2) residential campus at Raebareli Road, 15 km from the main city. The institute offers its own degrees, which are recognized by the Medical Council of India. SGPGIMS delivers tertiary medical care, super-specialty teaching, training and research. It offers DM, MCh, MD, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellowships (PDF) and postdoctoral certificate courses (PDCC), and senior residency.[3]
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SGPGIMS is an educational institute that imparts postgraduate medical training and a working hospital that provides inexpensive medical care. It is a tertiary care referral hospital that caters to patients referred from not only the nearby villages and towns but also from King George Medical College in Lucknow and distant areas such as Patna (Bihar), Rewa (Madhya Pradesh), and even Nepal.
The institute has the following departments:
The institute has a Telemedicine unit.
The institute runs DM (Doctorate of Medicine), M.Ch. (Magister Chirurgi), and MD (Doctor of Medicine) programs, training residents in surgical and medical superspecialty and specialty fields. It also runs Ph.D. programs for basic science research.
The institute offers DM/MCh/PDF/PDCC/and Senior Residency (Hospital Services) training programs in various specialties.
SGPGIMS has a well-equipped library with more than 16,000 books and subscriptions to nearly 450 scientific journals, a computer network with more than 230 computers, Internet connections, and e-mail facilities. Patient care activities are computerised.
There is a main auditorium, a smaller auditorium, and seminar rooms.
Teaching covers basic, medical, and surgical specialties, with compulsory and optional courses covering areas relevant to all aspects of medicine. There is a strong emphasis on research and training in research methodology in postgraduate courses.
All students have to complete two compulsory courses (Basic Course and Course on Biostatistics), and two optional courses from among those offered, including Scientific Communication, Clinical Decision Analysis, Research Methodology, Laboratory Instrumentation, Computer Applications, Biomedical Literature Search, Bioinformatics, Basic Immunology, Medical Physics, and Molecular Biology, etc., to be eligible for the final examination.
Publications in indexed national/international journals is a basic, mandatory requirement for DM and MCh programs. Thesis is a compulsory part of MD programs.
The residents at SGPGI come from most Indian states.
Prof. R.K. Sharma was appointed director of the institute on 1 September 2009 and as of 2011[update] continued to head it, and Dr. A. Bhatt was the chief medical superintendent. The Board of Governors was chaired by Anup Mishra.
The Institute is to the southeast of Lucknow city on the Lucknow-Raebareli Road.
The hospital works as a referral hospital and endeavours to work on an appointment system. Facilities are available only on payment; there is no provision for free treatment or investigations.
The Institute caters for emergencies relating to the specialties existing at the institute but not for general medical emergencies.
The campus has several facilities for patients and their attendants. These include:
SGPGIMS has a campus with trees and parks, a swimming pool, a gymnasium, a sports complex, doctors' accommodation, clubs, theaters and auditoriums for lectures, or entertainment.
Many conferences and workshops are held at the institute.
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