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The department of Medicine
consists of three units. The three units work in
synchronicity to give specialized health care in
gastroenterology, internal medicine and neurology. The
department handles an active endocrine and metabolic
outpatient clinic workload with equally busy GI and liver
outpatient clinic. The infra-structure of the departments
consistsapprox. 180 beds, 60 for each specialty. It also
has a 40 seat auditorium with audiovisual aids and
connected to the endoscopy room for live display of
endoscopy procedures. In order to facilitate the teaching
and training of students, the department has a library
equipped with medical journals, textbooks of medicine,
gastroenterology, hepatology and endocrinology. The
department also has a state of the art GI endoscopy unit
and a motility laboratory providing comprehensive GI
endoscopy services and a high resolutionmotility and pH
studies of upper and lower GI tract.
The neurology department has
recently established an EEG facility and provides
ancillary support to neurosurgical patients.
The
department is conducting four post graduate structured
residency training programs approved by CPSP and UHS,
namely FCPS Medicine, FCPS Gastroenterology, FCPS
neurology and MD Medicine. OPD and emergency days are
allocated 2 per week to each subspecialty namely
neurology, gastroenterology and endocrinology with a
patient turnover of over 250 per week.
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