JSS University, Mysore

ACADEMIA THIS QUARTER
Seminars, Workshops, Guest Lectures, Orientation Programmes and CMEs. At JSS University and its constituent
colleges, these programmes have as much importance as their regular curriculum. Because JSSU believes in an
academic system where content exchange of ideas between students, between faculty, and between students and faculty
is the most efficient way to learn and excel.
JSSU VC Calls for Innovation: “Collaboration
and not Competition is the Need of the Hour”
collaboration and not competition was the need of the hour in
our society today.
Dr H Basavana Gowdappa, Principal, JSSMC congratulated
the organizers and offered generous assistance from the
college for such endeavours and called upon to conduct many
more in the future which would benefit doctors in refreshing
and updating their academic and clinical competencies and
skills. He also announced the intention of JSSMC to set up
a comprehensive Skills Laboratory with advanced training
equipment where complex techniques in management of
patients can be taught.
Dr G. Siddesh, Head of the Department of Surgery welcomed
the delegates and outlined the design and objectives of the
course.
The Vice Chancellor of JSS University, Dr B. Suresh called
upon the doctors to take the route of innovation in the field of
healthcare in order to tackle the problems faced in catering to
the varied healthcare needs of society today. He was speaking
after inaugurating a Workshop on Surgical Skills at JSS
Medical College on Saturday, July 14, 2012.
Discussing the Indian healthcare scenario, the Vice Chancellor
identified the spread of corporate hospitals and the growth of
Government sponsored health schemes as the two fields where
innovative methods are changing the face of the healthcare
industry. While acknowledging the need for standardization
he suggested that newer methodologies need to be devised
to ensure delivery of quality healthcare services to larger
number of people. Research and development of novel
methods are the key and these are best forged in the crucible
of academic environs of hospitals attached to medical
colleges. Lauding the efforts of the teaching staff of JSS
Medical College (JSSMC) and Mysore Medical College and
Research Institute (MMC&RI) who were striving to produce
skilled surgeons with a scientific bent of mind he opined that
Post Graduate Exam Orientation Programme
at JSSMC
“JSS have not only proven themselves to be the best Medical
College in the state yet again, in fact they have set new
standards for succeeding generations to meet”.
This statement was made by a visiting faculty in the
programme organized by the department of Anaesthesiology,
JSS Medical College, Mysore. The department conducted a
Post Graduate Exam Orientation Programme as part of its
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