Orthopaedics

Orthopaedics

Overview

Established in 1999. The department of Orthopaedics included in the M.B.B.S Course and offers Post graduate MS program in Orthopaedics. In addition the department of orthopaedics has recognized guides for the interdisciplinary Ph.D program of Nitte Deemed to be University. The department has enough staff as per the requirements of the medical council of India (MCI). It tenders daily OPD services with specialty clinics and has high rate of occupancy in its in patients wards both male and female wards. It has adequate infrastructural facilities for providing clinical training for undergraduate and post graduate students. The departmental library has 148 titles and 26 periodicals.

The department provides excellent training opportunities for clinical training. Faculty adopts learner centric methods of education such as small group discussions and student seminars, speciality clinics like Hand Clinic, CTEV Clinic, Fracture Clinic (trauma and emergencies), Arthroscopy Clinic (sports medicine including- ACL, PCL reconstruction, meniscal repair etc.), Spine Clinic, Arthroplasty Clinic (Total hip replacement/ Total knee replacement) and Rheumatology clinic runs simultaneously on OPD days and provide advanced training opportunities for post graduate students. Department has integrated teaching programme with the department of anatomy and physiotherapy. Teaching with audio visual aids and extensive use of CD-ROMs as learning materials. Permanent display of surgical and orthotics and artificial limbs in a departmental museum are some of the measure taken to engage students effectively. Facilities for two way audio-visual communications from OT to the seminar hall for live demonstration of surgeries have been developed to aid the teaching learning process.

Faculty / OPD Schedule

Outpatient Department at Justice K. S Hegde Charitable Hospital runs on all days of the week including Sundays. OPD timings are from 9.00 AM to 4.00 PM and on Sundays from 9.00 AM to 1.00 PM.

Staff list

Sl.No. Name Designation Qualification Unit OPD Day OT day
1 Dr.Vikram Shetty PROFESSOR & HOD MBBS D.ORTHO, DNB ORTHO I MON,THU TUE,FRI
2 Dr Jayaprakash Shetty PROFESSOR & EMERITUS MBBS MS I MON,THU TUE,FRI
3 Dr.Lawrence Mathias PROFESSOR MBBS MS III WED,SAT MON,THU
4 Dr.Siddharth M Shetty PROFESSOR MBBS DNB ORTHO I MON,THU TUE,FRI
5 Dr.Ashwin Shetty PROFESSOR MBBS MS II TUE,FRI WED,SAT
6 Dr Deepak Hegde ASSOC. PROFESSOR MBBS D.ORTHO, DNB ORTHO III WED,SAT MON,THU
7 Dr.Dileep K S ASSOC. PROFESSOR MBBS D.ORTHO, DNB ORTHO II TUE,FRI WED,SAT
8 Dr.Sanath Kumar Shetty ASSOC. PROFESSOR MBBS D.ORTHO, DNB ORTHO III WED,SAT MON,THU
9 Dr.Haridas Somayaji ASST.PROFESSOR MBBS D.ORTHO, DNB ORTHO II TUE,FRI WED,SAT
10 Dr.P Nirmal Babu ASST.PROFESSOR MBBS MS I MON,THU TUE,FRI
11 Dr.Vinay Kumar C ASST.PROFESSOR MBBS MS I MON,THU TUE,FRI
12 Dr.Santhosh Babu B C

ASST.PROFESSOR

MBBS MS I MON,THU TUE,FRI
13 Dr.Anoop Hegde SENIOR RESIDENT MBBS MS III WED,SAT MON,THU
14 Dr.Nihal R Rai SENIOR RESIDENT MBBS MS II TUE,FRI WED,SAT




PG List 2020

Name Designation Year Department
Dr Adhitya Koushik Junior Resident III YEAR Orthopaedics
Dr Arpith Kamath Junior Resident III YEAR Orthopaedics
Dr Akhil A Junior Resident III YEAR

Orthopaedics

Dr Aravind Sai Sathikumar Junior Resident III YEAR

Orthopaedics

Dr Meher Pradeep Mehta Junior Resident III YEAR

Orthopaedics

Dr Kingshuk Ganguly Manoj Kumar Junior Resident II YEAR

Orthopaedics

Dr Rohan Raj B Junior Resident II YEAR

Orthopaedics

Dr Aakash Punamchand Lengde Junior Resident II YEAR

Orthopaedics

Dr Vivek S Junior Resident II YEAR

Orthopaedics

Dr Varsha Shankar Junior Resident II YEAR

Orthopaedics

Dr Selvaraj Junior Resident II YEAR

Orthopaedics

Dr Kadappa Shedyal Junior Resident II YEAR

Orthopaedics

Dr Abhimanyu Dhawalgi Junior Resident II YEAR

Orthopaedics

Dr Reny Gilbert Junior Resident II YEAR

Orthopaedics

Speciality Services

  • Hand Clinic
  • CTEV Clinic
  • Fracture Clinic (trauma and emergencies)
  • Arthroscopy Clinic (sports medicine including- ACL, PCL reconstruction, meniscal repair etc.)
  • Spine Clinic
  • Arthroplasty Clinic (Total hip replacement/ Total knee replacement)
  • Rheumatology clinic