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SRMC Founder's Day celebrated

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Excellence awards for students and faculty

CHENNAI : The launch of a scientific medicine journal, assessment of ongoing development projects and distribution of excellence awards to students and faculty marked the Founder's Day and University Day celebrations of Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute (Deemed University) on Tuesday.

A host of speakers paid glowing tributes to SRMC founder N.P.V. Ramasamy Udayar.

SRMC Registrar Radha Venkataachalam said the projects initiated under the SRMC's Growth and Advancement Towards Excellence (GATE) programme had been either completed or were nearing completion.

The projects include establishment of Eduport, a one-stop education portal that allows students to access assignments to attendance sheets, internal assessment marks and take test. The SRMC, in association with Harvard Medical School, is setting up a seven-storeyed Ambulatory Care Centre with 98 consultation rooms.

The SRMC is also moving towards securing accreditation from the Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA), which evaluates organisations for commitment to quality and safety and risk reduction for patient and staff.

Kenneth Sands, vice-president, health care quality, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Boston, U.S., formally released the maiden issue of Sri Ramachandra Journal of Medicine by handing over the first copy to V. R. Venkataachalam, Chancellor. The web version was also launched.

Dr. Sands called for integrating quality and safety practices with existing teaching modules for healthcare workers. Rather than merely being exposed to quality and safety consciousness at a conceptual level, physicians and nurses need to be trained to engage in active action for improved delivery of services in the hospital setting, he said.

Studies in the U.S. had shown that risk of adverse events was higher in hospital than on the highway and that there was no correlation between high costs and quality of care. T. T. Srinivasaraghavan, managing director, Sundaram Finance, distributed prizes to outstanding students. S. S. K. Marthandam, Vice-Chancellor, D. Gnanaprakasam, Director (academic administration), Fr. Vincent Chinnadurai, Director, Santhome Communications and Vijayalakshmi Thanasekaraan, Controller of Examinations, also took part.

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