Overview

The rapid boom in the tradition of knowledge in the field of medical science, associated with equally rapid advances in technology, has necessitated the further division of basic specialties like medicine and surgery into superspecialties, thus, culminating into a new subspecialty Hepato-pancreatico-biliary (HPB) Surgery.

The Department of HPB surgery came into existence at MGMCH at the beginning of 2021 with the permission given by the National Medical Commission (NMC) for starting one seat in MCh in HPB surgery.

Working

The Department offers OPD services from 9 AM to 4 PM on all working days of the week and 365 days round the clock emergency services for patients referred to MGMCH from other hospitals. The Department of HPB Surgery works in close association with the departments of Surgical Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Medical Gastroenterology and is very ably supported by the departments of Anaesthesiology, Organ Transplant Anaesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, Radiology, Interventional Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Pathology and Transfusion Medicine.

Academic services

• The department has been successfully conducting the MCh programme in HPB Surgery since 2021, with an annual intake of one seat.
• The department is the first to start an MCh programme in the discipline of HPB Surgery in the state of Rajasthan
• The department has a regular teaching program including case presentation, seminar, journal club, faculty lecture, etc. of its own; in addition, it participates in the weekly teaching session of the Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology (IASG).
• The department also runs a weekly online teaching portal, Jaipur Surgical Tutorial (JST), in which faculty members and MCh/DNB students in HPB Surgery and Surgical Gastroenterology from all over the country participate
• The department has been regularly conducting medical education programs and training sessions for surgeons in various cities of Rajasthan. The Department is also involved in interdepartmental education sessions, seminars, and training programs and in the institutional clinical combined rounds (CCR).
• Faculty members of the department are regularly and frequently invited to deliver lectures at regional, national and international conferences.
• We have successfully conducted Jaipur Surgical Festival (JSF) – an yearly international CME conducted in December starting in 2021. The 1st JSF (theme: Cholecystectomy) was conducted in 2021 and the 2nd JSF (theme: HPB Oncology) was held in 2022.