A.
I. I. M. S. : Dr. Soumya C. V. (
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Hi friends,
Our website is indeed wonderful! Congrats
to KKV and all those who worked for it! I shall tell
u about AIIMS and my stay there.
AIIMS is indeed very nice. It is a
referral centre and Rajendra Prasad eye institute
and I. R. C. H. (our R. C. C. equivalent) and National
Medical Library are all in the same campus. We are
Academic Junior Residents (JRs). There will be Senior
Residents (SRs) (who have finished 3 years pg after
which they can work as senior resident for 3 years)
who supervise our work in the North. The House - Surgeons
or Interns as they are called, most of them do not
even know to put in a cannula. It is while doing P.
G. that they learn all this. One JR from Rajasthan
didn’t know how to hold a cannula for putting
it!
The wards are very clean with no patient
on the floor (in stark contrast our M. C. H.) and
are air – conditioned. So it doesn’t matter
if the weather is cold or hot as long as we are in
the wards. Pediatrics and most other specialties have
3 units each with 2 admission days a week for a unit.
Casualty posting is separate like our O & G. Each
unit deals with some of the specialties. For example,
I worked in Paeds Unit 3, which deals with Oncology,
Pulmonology, and Immunology. The case profile is very
different from M. C. H. with wards full of A. L. L.
(Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia) and Cystic Fibrosis.
The referral cases from Uttar Pradesh (or is it Uttam
Pradesh now?) Bihar, Utharanchal, Chattisgarh, Jammu
and Kashmir, Rajasthan all come there. Cases like
Hydatid Cyst and Neurocysticercosis are all very common
here.
We are supposed to give chemotherapy
to patients. Intrathecal Methotrexate and all Bone
Marrow examinations, L. P.s, Muscle, Nerve, Kidney,
Liver biopsies etc. are done by us. The facilities
are so good that there are machines for ABG, Sodium,
Potassium, Calcium, Phosphorus, Glucose, and Microhematocrit
in the wards and we are to do them ourselves. We are
supposed to draw blood, collect some reports from
labs just like House Surgeoncy.
On admission day, each of us will
be allotted patients for workup. We have to examine
and discuss with Senior Resident the case-plan, investigations
etc. Then we draw blood, send investigations, collect
reports and discuss with other specialty faculty for
dates of consultations. We also discuss with the patient’s
bystanders who do everything for the patient. Investigations
like Protein C and S, factor V, LAIDEN mutation, Nuclear
Scans are all so commonly done here! Radio diagnosis
is very good with M. R. I., SPECT scan etc. The I.
C. U. setup is also ‘kidilam’ with many
ventilators.
Every
ward even has a dietician who looks into the calorie
intake of patients and hospital food is given accordingly.
Most of the nurses (about 75%) are Malayalees. Hindi
is also not a problem. Most of the JRs, SRs, sisters
are all from different parts of the country. There
are also foreigners who come to do research here.
In my unit there was a lady from France.
One thing about A. I. I. M. S. is
that bystanders don’t have to run around for
investigations. Blood samples are all carried by ward
attenders to labs and reports are collected by us
or attenders. In JIPMER reports can be collected from
computers kept in wards and discharge cards are also
made in computers. In A. I. I. M. S. there is no computer
in the ward but 24 hour internet access is available
for students. The A. I. I. M. S. library is also wonderful
will get all new journals textbooks etc. As I’ve
mentioned before, the National Medical Library is
also in the campus.
It was the coldest winter in “Dilli”
in the last 10 years and foggiest too! But climate
is not a problem since wards are air conditioned.
I couldn’t taste academics much because it was
time for winter leave for faculty members and therefore,
all clubs Grand Rounds were not there for 2 weeks.
As part of P. G. programme, we will be allotted thesis
work and guides. Topics would be like etiology of
mouth ulcers in A. L. L. Hostel is good and food is
brought into the room on ordering. Food is good with
variety especially for vegetarians and also very cheap.
On a normal day, routine starts from
7.30 am. Classes begin at 8.15 and go on till 9. Then,
senior resident rounds and faculty rounds stretch
till afternoon. At 2 o'clock specialty clinics like
T. B. clinic H. I. V. clinic etc start. Duty would
be there for about 36 hours on every alternate day
for the first 1 year then twice a week but we learn
a lot.
Finally,
how to get in! There are 2 entrances a year - one
in May and the other in November. The number of seats
to play for are lesser in the Entrance held in May.
The pattern of questions is just like All India PGE
the difference only in the quantitye ie. only 200
questions are there. The exams are held in Delhi alone.
The A. I. M. M. S. Quota system has been scrubbed
and so open quota seats are more compared to previous
years. If anybody wants to know more about A. I. I.
M. S. or the Entrance, you can talk to me or just
send a mail. I am taking General Medicine in Trivandrum.
My counseling is on February 19th. Best of luck to
all of you!
Dr.
Soumya C. V.
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