Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences is a medical Institute under the State Legislature Act in

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, south of

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on Raebareli Road. It was established in 1983 and is named after

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. The institute is located on residential campus on

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Road. The institute offers degrees recognized by the Medical Council of India. It provides tertiary-level medical care, teaching, training, and research for specialties. Degrees at the DM, MCh, MD , and

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levels are offered, along with postdoctoral fellowships and postdoctoral certificate courses in various disciplines. offers training programs for senior residents. The College of Medical Technology offers B.Sc. courses in nursing and BSc/MSc courses in paramedical technology in allied sciences. The institute is an autonomous institution. The institute functions as a state college are a member of the Association of Indian Universities and are recognized by the College Grants Commission.

Programs and faculty

As part of the postgraduate medical training, the institute has a working tertiary care referral hospital that provides inexpensive medical care. This hospital offers treatment to patients from the whole of Uttar Pradesh, and neighboring states such as Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Orissa, and West Bengal. It is also available to almost the whole of India and neighboring countries including Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and Middle Eastern countries. Because of this reach, it is considered a destination for medical tourism. The institute employs over 250 faculty members across 32 departments. Each department consists of teaching, training, patient care, and research. Professor R.K. Dhiman became head of the institute in January 2020. The dean, who is responsible for overseeing academic activities, is Prof Anish Srivastava. Prof Gaurav Agarwal is the chief medical superintendent- the overall chief of the hospital, who is assisted by Dr. VK Paliwal, the medical superintendent. It is known for being the first among all government hospitals in India to implement the Oracle-based HIS system in 1997. In 2019 the HIS was updated to be fully integrated with the PAX and telemedicine network. This was meant to provide convenience and security for patients and healthcare providers. The institute has departments for the following fields: * Emergency Medicine *

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, Intensive Care & Pain Management *

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/ haemato-oncology & Bone marrow transplantation unit *

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& Rheumatology *

Neurosurgery Neurosurgery or neurological surgery, known in common parlance as brain surgery, is the medical specialty concerned with the surgical treatment of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord and pe ...

Neurology Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal ...

*Surgical Gastroenterology & Liver Transplantation unit *

Gastroenterology Gastroenterology (from the Greek gastḗr- “belly”, -énteron “intestine”, and -logía "study of") is the branch of medicine focused on the digestive system and its disorders. The digestive system consists of the gastrointestinal tract ...

*Cardio-Vascular & thoracic surgery *Critical Care Medicine *

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*Endocrine & Breast Surgery *

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Medical Genetics Medical genetics is the branch tics in that human genetics is a field of scientific research that may or may not apply to medicine, while medical genetics refers to the application of genetics to medical care. For example, research on the caus ...

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/ Radiation and clinical oncology - Regional Cancer Centre *Biostatistics and Health Informatics *

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*Plastic Surgery & Burns *

Molecular Medicine Molecular medicine is a broad field, where physical, chemical, biological, bioinformatics and medical techniques are used to describe molecular structures and mechanisms, identify fundamental molecular and genetic errors of disease, and to develop ...

*Maternal & Fetal Medicine *

*Pediatric surgical super-specialties *

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* Pediatric gastroenterology The institute also has a Telemedicine unit as part of the School of Tele-Medicine & Biomedical Informatics.

Academic courses and facilities

ranking medical. The institute has many training programs in various specialties. These include a Doctor of Medicine, M.Ch. (Magister Chirurgie), and MD (Doctor of Medicine) programs. It also runs

programs for basic science research and B.Sc. Nursing 4 years courses. The library has more than 21,000 books and subscriptions to nearly 450 scientific journals. There is the main auditorium, a smaller auditorium, and seminar rooms. All students complete two compulsory courses (Basic Course and Course on Biostatistics), and two optional courses from among those offered, including Scientific Communication, Clinical Decision Analysis, Research Methodology, Laboratory Instrumentation, Computer Applications, Biomedical Literature Search, Bioinformatics, Basic Immunology, Medical Physics, and Molecular Biology, etc. and all MD programs require a thesis. The DM and MCh programs require publications in indexed national/international journals. All residents take an entrance test. During the

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, SGPGI was required to train some doctors virtually.

SGPGI Hospital

The hospital is located nearly from the institute's main gate. The hospital works as a referral hospital, though patients who require treatment that SGPGI are sometimes admitted without a referral. It is a UP state government-owned hospital and it is often less expensive for patients to receive care there than private hospitals of comparable quality in India. The Institute hospital endeavors to work on an appointment system. Thus, the patients are expected to re-visit the Institute hospital only on appointed days, except in case of an emergency. Patients once seen are usually provided an appointment for any investigations, outpatient consultation, admission for treatment and surgery. The in-patient treatment at SGPGIMS hospital is highly organized and all efforts are made to reduce inconvenience to patients, that is usually the case at various government hospitals. The on-line health information system of the hospital is synchronized to the online billing system and online pharmacy. Patients are provided all medicines, consumables, surgical material etc. at the bed-side, for which the patients are charged a highly subsidised cost, in most cases—about 30–40% less than the MRP. SGPGI does not treat general medical emergencies but it takes patients related to the university specialties. Sometimes patients are referred to SGPGI through other hospitals.

Other facilities

The campus has several facilities for patients and their attendants. These include: *PRA: Patients' relatives' accommodation, available to relatives of patients admitted to the hospital, on payment basis. *Vishramalaya: A daytime facility for outpatients and relatives with lockers, a place to relax, a restaurant, bathrooms, toilets, etc. *Cafeteria, bank, post office, shops for drugs and medical consumables.

Notable people

Notable alumni

Amita Aggarwal Amita Aggarwal (born 1960) is an Indian clinical immunologist, rheumatologist and a Professor and Head at the Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology of the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow. Known for ...

, DM (1993) * Ashutosh Tewari, MCh (1994) * Kanneboyina Nagaraju, PhD (1995) *

Harish Poptani Harish Poptani is a University of Liverpool's Professor and Chair of the center for Preclinical Imaging. He did his PhD in Radiology from Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences and MS in Organic Chemistry from University of Luc ...

, PhD (1995) * Ramakant Yadav, DM (2006)

Notable faculty

Shyam Swarup Agarwal Shyam Swarup Agarwal (5 July 1941 – 2 December 2013) was an Indian geneticist, immunologist and the director of Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI-MS), Lucknow. A former director of the Advanced Center for Treatme ...

Rakesh Aggarwal Rakesh Aggarwal (born 1975), is a Welsh businessman and founder of the internet cosmetics retailer Escentual.com.James McKeigue. "How I built the Amazon of online beauty". MoneyWeek. 14 December 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2012. Early life Agga ...

Mahendra Bhandari Mahendra Bhandari (born 24 December 1945) is an Indian surgeon who has made substantial contributions to the specialty of urology, medical training, hospital administration, robotic surgery and medical ethics. For his efforts, he was awarded ...

* Sita Naik *

Sunil Pradhan Sunil Pradhan (born 25 June 1957) is an Indian neurologist, medical researcher and writer, known for the invention of two electrophysiological techniques. He has also described five medical signs, of which one related to Duchenne muscular dystrop ...

Rajan Saxena Rajan Saxena is an Indian management expert, academic & writer. He is a former Vice-Chancellor of the SVKM's NMIMS, a deemed university in Mumbai, a former Director of Indian Institute of Management, Indore, S. P. Jain Institute of Managemen ...

References

External links

* https://sgpgims.org.in/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences Institute under State Legislature Act Medical and health sciences universities in India Regional Cancer Centres in India Medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh Universities and colleges in Lucknow Educational institutions established in 1983 1983 establishments in Uttar Pradesh Research institutes in Lucknow