Goal

• Patient care that is compassionate, appropriate & effective.
• Practice based learning & improvements & Professionalism.
• Medical knowledge about established and evolving pulmonary disease, its applications to patient care.
• Combat HIV/AIDS & TB.

  Objective

• Demonstrate sufficient understanding of the basic sciences relevant to the Pulmonary Medicine.
• To identify social, economic, environmental, biological and emotional determinants of health.
• To therapeutic, rehabilitative, preventive & primitive measures/strategies in Pulmonary Medicine.
• To diagnose and manage majority of the conditions in Pulmonary Medicine.
• To implement of National health programme (RNTCP), effectively and responsibly.
• To demonstrate Post Graduate Students competence in basic concepts of research methodology.

  About Department

• Year of Establishment: January 1990
• MBBS course started in 1991
• MD (Respiratory Medicine) started in 2012

Special Highlights

• OPD is well equipped with PFT room, teaching areas like seminar room and examination room.
• PFT machine with DLCO machine is installed and functional since 2015.
• Specialised Polysomnography suite available for sleep disorder diagnosis and treatment. 
• Departmental library having books, journals, question banks, CDs and modules from national and international publication updated yearly.
• Ward with 40 beds for in patients along with one procedure room and polysomnography suite.
• Well-equipped separate IRCU with 8 beds.
• Separate bronchoscopy suite having various accessories including       fiberoptic bronchoscope.
• The Department Of Pulmonary Medicine has been designated as Tuberculosis Unit II (TU II) for implementation of Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP).
• Dr. Ashish Deshmukh has written a chapter on Bronchoscopy in the book Pulmonary Clinics of India volume-4.
• State conference “PULMONAR” is organized every year by the department of Respiratory Medicine.