Goal
- To impart advanced knowledgein all fields of Clinical Microbiology through meaningful education, ethical research and encourage the student for self learning.
- To provide best laboratory diagnostic modalities for patient care.
- To create awareness regarding prevention of health care associated infections & insist on rational use of antibiotics
Objective
- To impart comprehensive knowledge about etiological agents of infectious diseases so as to diagnose the diseases at the earliest.
- To encourage students to acquire self learning skills which will make them competent and independent learners.
- To upgrade the knowledge about prevention and control of health care associated infections so as to reduce burden on health care services. It will also benefit the patients by reducing morbidity and mortality.
- To create awareness about bacterial drug resistance and rational use of antibiotics so as to reduce emergence of resistant strains.
- To carry out fundamental and applied research for the benefit of the community.
About Department
- Department of Microbiology was established in the year 1990 .
- The Programs offered are MBBS, MD, MSc.
- Department of Microbiology has well organized UG and PG academic programs in the form of didactic lectures, practicals, post graduate activities, day to day assessments, guest lectures, UG and PG quiz, poster exhibitions, innovative teaching learning methods and encouragement in research.
- The department offers excellent state of the art diagnostic modalities to cater to the needs of diagnosis of infectious diseases. The quality of these services reflects in the excellent scores achieved in the external quality assessment program organized at the national level.
- The department participates actively in national programs such as RNTCP and ICTC.
- Microbiology department has UG/PG handbooks for guidance of students.
Dr.Wyawahare Anupama Sandeep
ProfessorView Profile
Dr.Ghogare Harish Subhashrao
Associate ProfessorView Profile
Dr.Bansal Vishvesh Prakashchandra
Associate ProfessorView Profile
Dr.Kulkarni Smita Sitaram
Assistant ProfessorView Profile
Dr.Naik Shraddha Dinkarrao
TutorView Profile
Mrs.Mishra Jyotsna Kailash Dutta
TutorView Profile
Dr.Mulay Manjushree Vijay
Professor & HeadView Profile
Dr.Pathrikar Tejeswini Gangadharrao
Assistant ProfessorView Profile
Programs offered
Programs offered -
- MBBS, MD, M.Sc
Services offered –
Infrastructure
The dept is having an area of 800sq. meters
Practical hall & Laboratories:
Student practical hall can accommodated 96 student batches at a time
The practical hall is well ventilated & lighted.
There are 7 well equipped diagnostic laboratories. These are bacteriology, Parasitology, serology, HIV/ virology,Immunology,Mycology, Mycobacteriology and one research laboratory.
Serology (CLIA), bacteriology (BACT ALERT) and Mycobacteriology (CBNAAT) laboratories are having automated equipments.
Museum:
Museum contains excellently displayed charts, exhibits, models and specimens. These cover all branches of Microbiology like history, bacteriology, general microbiology, mycology, immunology, virology as well as clinical microbiology.
The UG students are encouraged to use the facilities of museum. In museum files containing information on exhibits are kept for students for referral.
Demonstration Rooms:
Two demonstration rooms each with capacity to accommodate 75 students are available in department.
Seminar Room cum Departmental Library:
Seminar room is available with computer & network facility. E learning services are also available in department. Reference books, Text books, Lab manuals and journals are available in department library.