Orthopaedics

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.

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

Sl.No.	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

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