- The Department of Psychiatry has started Master’s programmes and Diploma course in Counselling and Family therapy from July 2010. These courses are affiliated to the Indira Gandhi National Open University.
- This year 16 students have registered for PhD in the Departments of Biochemistry, Physiology, Microbiology, Pathology, Community Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology.
- The Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics have been permitted by the Medical Council of India to increase one postgraduate seat in their respective departments.
- The Department of Biochemistry has been sanctioned Rs 55 lakhs under the Funds for Infrastructure Development (FIST) programme by the Department of Science and Technology. This grant was also sanctioned in 2005-10 and is a repeat support after noting satisfactory progress in the last 5 years.
- The Dept of Community Medicine in coordination with the Dept of Microbiology have been sanctioned a multi-centric Task force ICMR project on ‘Surveillance of infection in neonates (0-28 days)” This project will run for four years and MGIMS has been selected as one of the six sites from all over India.
- The Dept of Pathology has been running a Population Based Cancer Registry of Wardha district from 2002 under an ICMR-WHO Cancer Atlas of India project. From 2010, this Rural Population Based Cancer Registry of Wardha district has been given permanent status with a funding of Rs 12.8 lakhs per annum under the National Cancer Registry Programme of ICMR.
- The Dept of Microbiology has become one amongst 10 laboratories of Maharashtra selected by the State Surveillance Unit as a quality assurance referral laboratory for confirmation of diseases of public health importance in the event of outbreaks in Gadchiroli, Yavatmal, Chandrapur and Wardha district under the Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP) network.
- The Department of Anatomy has been sanctioned Rs 25 lakhs for a project titled ‘Genetic study in human male infertility related to microdeletions of Y chromosome in idiopathic cases of azoospermia and oligospermia’. Under this project, a Molecular Genetics laboratory has been established.
- The Dept of Psychiatry has been sanctioned a multicentric research project titled ‘Effect of Ayurvedic Ayush Manas in the management of manasamandata (mental retardation)’ funded by the Central Council for Research in Ayurveda and Siddha (CCRAS), Govt of India.
- The Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology has been sanctioned a project titled ‘A cross sectional community based and randomized institution based study to know the magnitude of anemia and Ayurvedic intervention to reduce anemia (pandu) in women of reproductive age’ funded by the Central Council for Research in Ayurveda and Siddha (CCRAS). Govt of India.
- Training course and programmes An Online Health Informatics Certification (OHIC Course has been started from July 2010, designed for six months duration at Bioinformatics Centre, MGIMS, Sevagram in collaboration with Mascon Global Limited (MGL), Gurgaon to deliver basic concepts in Health Informatics in the form of online training to Healthcare professionals & Paramedical personnel with graduate qualification. The OHIC is dealt with 6 modules: Introduction to Health Informatics; Knowledge Management in Health Informatics; Integrating Technology into Health Care Delivery; Imaging, Pharmaceutical and Laboratory Informatics; Nursing, Public Health and Consumer Health Informatics; and Electronic Medical Records & MGL- EMR: Demo & Assignments) with six assignments and two online tests.
- The Kasturba Nursing College has been selected as Centre for Training of Nurses on HIV/ AIDS and ART under The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) project. So far they have conducted 29 training programmes of 5 days duration and 4 training programmes of 6 days duration for nurses from various parts of Maharashtra.
