Community Medicine Surat

07/04/2025

"IAPSM Nationwide Quiz Competition"
Date: 7/4/2025 @ 10 am
Venue: Charaka Hall, GMC, Surat
On behalf of World Health Day in association with IAPSM, Nationwide Quiz Competition was conducted. The event was inaugurated by the faculties & Professor and Head of the Department of community Medicine. Final 4 teams have participated following the initial elimination round each consisting of 3 Undergraduate students. The quiz had structured 4 rounds, the last being the rapid fire round which has turned the plate to everyone's expectation. The highlight of the show was the audience round where everyone enjoyed scoring chocolates in return for retort.
At last we render our sincere gratitude to the Department of community Medicine and IAPSM,
Committee members, all participants, audience, technical supporters and everyone.

30/10/2023

"You made a difference here, and you will be missed!!"
It is hard to say goodbye to someone who has been such an integral part of PSMGMCS.
Dr. J.K Kosambiya sir, has his academic roots attached in GMC Surat starting from MBBS in 1987.He then completed his MD (PSM) in 1993 and DCM in 1996.
Sir’s never-ending zeal for excellence is reflected by the various international courses he has completed. There have been many ‘firsts’ to his name like the landmark study Sero-epidemiological Study of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in Surat City: Risk Behavioural Approach”, “PARAS”,” EKTA” and “SAHYOG”: - Targeted Intervention among Female S*x Workers of Surat City” which is funded by NACO, India Sir’s teaching experience expands to 33 years. Sir has made numerous contributions to this field like:
• “Partnership for S*xual Health (PSH), funded by DFID (U. K.), NACO (1998 to 2000).
• Research collaborator in Survey estimation of s*xual behaviour, HIV/STI prevalence & development of HIV prevention intervention in male migrant workers in Surat, India (2005 -07) Well Come trust, UK, funded
• Organizing Secretary for Collaborative Workshops on HIV/AIDS, Adolescent health, Ethics in Health Research etc.
• Publication Strategies and Role of Systematic Reviews & Meta-analysis in Healthcare, Fogarty International Research Training Workshop
• Co-Ordinator at GMC Surat site: for Monthly HIV lecture series webinar, with Joining in this WebEx activity from Tennessee are St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, from Florida, University of South Florida, Department of Paediatrics and Division of Infectious Diseases in St. Petersburg and Tampa.
• Under Strategic Planning for Knowledge Sharing during Vibrant Gujarat (11 January 2015) between Govt. Medical College, Surat and with San Diego State University, USA and with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA.

Sir’s hard work and dedication has been an inspiration to us all. His vast administrative experience speaks volumes of his leadership and guidance. To quote a few of his administrative excellence:
• Chairman: Scientific Review Committee
• Established Human Research Ethics Committee and training of all the members of Ethics Committee of faculty and PG students
• Member of State Task Force Committee COVID-19 GoG, Surat Municipal Corporation and Surat District Panchayat
• Chairman: Best Practices & Innovation, Department of Health & Family Welfare, GoG
• Member: State Task Force for TB and Operational Research Committee, GoG
• Member: Regional Task Force Committee for PPTCT, HIV Sentinel Surveillance, western region, GoG
• Chairman: HIV Prevention Program, GSACS
Being awarded ‘Fellow IAPSM 2022’ added yet another feather to his cap.

Apart from this, sir also makes sure that all members of his department, be it faculty, residents and staff members are given their due respect. Sir is always eager to extend his help in all possible ways to all the PSMGMCS family members. To his residents’ sir is like a true guardian, and he is literally just one call away to all our problems. Sir’s enthusiasm and positive disposition is infectious to us all. Sir is equally cherished by his fellow colleagues in Tampa, USA.
We all thank sir for his mentorship and contribution. Our professional bearings will cross each other time and again during conferences and otherwise too.
Your departure from our team marks the end of an incredible chapter, but we are excited for the new opportunities that lie ahead for you. Wishing you all the best for your future endeavours.

23/10/2023

GMCS-NCHS NEWS:
22nd October 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Suresh Gamit for getting the Ph. D. in Community Medicine subject from VNSGU under the guidance of Supervising Teacher Dr. Jayesh Kosambiya, Professor and Head Community Medicine Department GMCS.

Her area of research was Clinical Characteristics and Treatment Outcomes among Tuberculosis and TB-HIV co-infected patients at Tertiary Healthcare Center, South Gujarat, India - a mixed method study.

20/10/2023

"Raas ni Ramzat"

A unique tradition of Gujarat is garba, Navratri - longest dance festival of India , the native dance of this state.

It's an unwritten law to celebrate a day by playing garba in the Department of PSM GMCS every year during Navratri.
Thus the family joined it's hand to play the garba on 20th October 2023 with the start of a prayer to Ambika MA with an aarthi to invoke her blessings.

The beauty of our Department is that we have residents from various states of India and such events act as an opportunity to adapt or undergo cross culture with the native residents and way forward they can carry these beautiful moments to back up their memories to retrospect later.
An interesting gesture was that a new resident from Kerala has learnt garba in just 2 days and this apprehends the coordination within the colleagues of Gujarat which is an act of early adaption.

All faculties, residents, paramedics, members of PARAS PSM project along with our HOD we played garba.
Here we are sharing the pics to feast your eyes.

19/10/2023

"Adding hunted pearls to the aquarium "

PSM GMCS is glad to add it's new pearls collected from 8 different places to its family of aquarium by an ice breaking event "The welcome ceremony" thereby to string them to the already existing pearl necklace.
The event happened to be a self introductory session projecting their personality, field of interest, hobbies, way backward their school, college and work experience, family origin which paved as a path to bind the bond.

And the pearls were
Dr. Jency Gandhi - Modasa, Arvalli, Gujarat
Dr. Rajvi Champaneri- Valsad, Gujarat
Dr. Jagruti G. Desai - Patan, Gujarat
Dr. Priya Patel- Maroli, Navsari, Gujarat
Dr. Adil Vegamiya- Bilimora, Gujarat
Dr. Amogha Savithri N- Kozhikode, Kerala
Dr. Akshay V U- Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Dr.Pritisha Chaudhari- Vyara,Tapi,Gujarat.

We are pleased to welcome them by extending our boundaries.

16/10/2023

PSMGMC, Surat with great pride and joy commemorated Golden Jubilee Celebration and PG Alumni Meet on 14th and 15th October 2023.

PSMGMC Surat was the first department in GMC Surat to be recognized by MCI in 1974. To celebrate the glorious 50 years and to be a part of this milestone 95 PG alumni of PSMGMCS got together.

14th October 2023
The celebration commenced with the alumni reminiscing their old memories and sharing their journey inspiring the young minds of budding public health doctors. Our alumni and collaborators who couldn't attend the event in person joined virtually to rekindle their time in PSMGMCS. The function ended with an appetizing Gala Dinner filled with live music and dance.

15th October 2023
Revisiting the memory lane, the day started with a walk on Dumas beach and delicious bhajiyas of different flavors. Afterwards some paid a visit to The Surat Castle. Later on everyone gathered in the department and the present resident doctors introduced themselves along with their area of interest and the experienced alumni gave their guidance and support. The event ended with a scrumptious lunch. Followed by, everyone bid their goodbye in the hope to meet soon

06/10/2023

05/10/2023

On 3rd October 2023 , a workshop on "HIV Prevention Program: Surat city scenario and way forward" conducted at PSMGMCS lecture hall in the presence of partners of NACP V , DAPCU Surat, Department of PSM GMCS, ART center of GMCS & SMIMER , Reliance ART centre, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics,General Medicine, Microbiology, ICTC, PPTCT, STI Clinic, Sampoorna Suraksha Clinic and DOST Center-NCHS.
Dr Aditya Gaur, Director Clinical Research, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA had addressed way forward for HIV prevention program.
Dr Sangita Trivedi, Add Professor , Pediatrics highlighted How to get Zero new infection through EMTCT.
Dr JK Kosambiya addressed Local Focal Strategies to adopt for reduction in new infection at community level.
The session gave new insights on current HIV scenario of Surat for zero new infections.
We thank all the partners for consistent support for achieving the national goal in the field.

30/09/2023

On 30th October, Saturday ,
A session was conducted at PSMGMCS hall for "Exploring Research Ideas"

Mentors for the day were
*Dr.Aditya Gaur, Director Clinical Research,Infectious Diseases,St.Jude's Hospital,USA
*Dr.J.K. Kosambiya, Professor and Head,PSMGMCS,
*Dr. Sangita Trivedi, Additional Professor, Department of Pediatrics,GMCS,
*Dr.Sumaiya Mullan ma'am, Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology,
*Dr. Sangita Rajdev, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology,
*Dr.Ragini Verma, Dean, GMCS

Speakers:
*Dr.Blessy Wilson, SR, PSMGMCS
*Dr.Aromal, Resident,PSMGMCS
*Dr.Ashwin , Resident , PSMGMCS
*Dr. Komal, Resident, Microbiology Department

The speakers shared their research insights on various topics like PLHIV and NCD, Prognosis in PLHIV, Cervical cancer and HPV vaccination
Each session was followed by meaningful discussions and inputs from all the mentors.

Our guest speaker Dr.Aditya Gaur, spoke about "Premastication and HIV transmission among children: Root cause analysis,Pilot study.

The session ended with open discussion and new avenues of research for newly joined residents.

27/09/2023

27th September 2023

Today a workshop on clinical trials "Demystifying Clinical Trials: let's give it a try!! was organized by Department of Community Medicine in collaboration with the Ethical and Scientific Review Committee, Government Medical College, Surat.

Guest lectures were given by
1) Dr. Aditya Gaur, Director Clinical Research, Infectious diseases, St Jude Children Research Hospital, Memphis, USA.
2) Dr. Sheela Godbole, Director, NARI, Pune
3) Dr. Mihir Rupani, Scientist E, NIOH Ahmedabad

Dr. Ragini Verma, Dean, GMC Surat welcomed the esteemed dignitaries of the day.

Speakers from GMCS were
1) Dr. J K Kosambiya, Professor & Head, Department of PSM
2) Dr. Sangita Trivedi, Member Secretary HREC

The session started with introduction to clinical trials and smoothly transitioned to topics like the difficulties faced when a clinician becomes an investigator, bringing resources, current scenario and challenges in clinical trials, ethical issues and reporting of adverse events and concluded with a question answer session.

The members of Ethics and Scientific Review Committee, Faculties of GMCS, SMIMER and Kiran Hospital, Residents, Interns and Post-graduate students of Physiotherapy and Nursing college joined the session.

26/09/2023

"The journey of kat-katha - An experience sharing"
On 24th septmber 2023 at 2-3pm in PSM lecture hall the family of PSM -GMCS along with DAPCU staff, ICTC counsellors PARAS PSM NACP-5 project staff, Sayog and Ekta Mahila Mandal CBO staff have assembled together in the presence of Dr.Vikas Desai mam to experience the experience sharing session on Kat-Katha by Mrs. Geetanjali Babbar, the Founder and Director of Kat-Katha NGO, New Delhi.

She gave a brief insight about how her journey started in GB road, New Delhi which gave a profound impact for the rehabilitation of s*x workers and their children and also created a shelter home for them at New Delhi. The session was more of interactive, with exchange of personal experience both of positive and negative encounters during their work journey with s*x workers.

This session happened to be an awareness and explained the need for rehabilitation of s*x workers who is always socially stigmatized. This also stands as a model project yet to be recognized.

We thank Dr.J.K. Kosambiya, Professor and Head of the Department for introducing Mrs.Geetanjali Babbar and her project for FSW's which has provided the new dimensions beyond the targetted intervention.

23/08/2023

"Joy is the simplest form of gratitude"

A thanksgiving party was organised by the recently passed out MD post graduates as a token of their appreciation and gratitude to the entire PSMGMCS family.

The celebration was held in Papa's Louis Pizza on 19th August 2023. Everyone enjoyed a blissful afternoon along with a delicious appetite..