Department of Physiology
Building a strong foundation in understanding normal body function — bridging basic sciences with clinical medicine.
Physiology sits at the centre of PESIMSR's Pre-Clinical year, explaining how the body's organ systems normally function — the essential link between basic sciences and clinical medicine that every later diagnosis depends on.
Vision
Academic and research excellence
To create a department that ensures academic and research excellence among faculty and students, and empowers students to succeed in the challenges of the medical profession.
Mission
How we get there
- Provide a strong basic foundation for understanding the physiological concepts behind clinical entities.
- Encourage independent research among faculty and lay a foundation for research among students.
- Facilitate innovative teaching and learning methods in the department.
- Improve presentation skills and build confidence through tutorials and seminars.
- Develop reasoning ability through MCQs, group discussions and mind maps.
- Ensure the department emerges as a strong link between basic sciences and medicine.
Department Objectives
"To increase the pass percentage to 90%, raise the number of distinctions, achieve 100% attendance, and ensure faculty stay current through workshops, conferences and CMEs."
Teaching Objectives
What students are expected to master at each stage of training in this department.
Goal
The broad goal of undergraduate teaching in Physiology is to provide comprehensive knowledge of the normal functions of the body's organ systems, facilitating an understanding of the physiological basis of health and disease.
Knowledge
- Explain the normal functioning of all organ systems and their interactions.
- Assess the relative contribution of each organ system to maintaining the milieu interior.
- Elucidate the physiological aspects of normal growth and development.
- Describe physiological responses and adaptations to environmental stresses.
- List physiological principles underlying the pathogenesis and treatment of disease.
Skills & Integration
- Conduct experiments designed for the study of physiological phenomena.
- Interpret experimental and investigative data, distinguishing normal from abnormal.
- Acquire an integrated knowledge of organ structure, function and regulatory mechanisms.
Program Goals
- Develop a competent Physiologist, versed in the discipline's full scope.
- Develop a good medical teacher in Physiology, practicing the required skills of teaching.
Other Pre-Clinical Departments
Physiology is one of three departments forming the foundation year of the MBBS program.
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