Saturday, March 9, 2024

Experience certificates from 2016-1992 : Rakesh Biswas

 Continued from http://userdrivenhealthcare.blogspot.com/2020/01/cv.html?m=0

Professor, Department of Medicine (September 2016 to August 2017) in IQ City Medical College & Hospital, Durgapur, India

This involved taking independent decisions regarding both out and in-patient management and intensive care. Teaching and documenting clinical problem solving experiences through research articles and designing collaborative projects to improve healthcare outcomes in the community forms an important part of this work experience.



Professor and Head, Department of Medicine (July 2014 to September 2016) in LN Medical College and Research Center, Bhopal, India: This involves taking independent decisions regarding both out and in-patient management and intensive care. Teaching and documenting clinical problem solving experiences through research articles and designing collaborative projects to improve healthcare outcomes in the community forms an important part of this work experience.





Honorary appointments:


Founding Chief Editor, International Journal of User Driven healthcare, US



Regional editor: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, UK.


Current board member and past Deputy Editor: BMJ Case Reports http://casereports.bmj.com/site/about/edboard.xhtml



Reviewer: JAMA Internal Medicine,


Reviewer, Medical Education, UK


Projects: a) Academic collaborator with University of Chicago funded by the Reliance foundation, Mumbai in developing a case based medical education platform called i-Human. http://www.i-human.com/case-authors-and-reviewers/


b) Developing a health care blended learning ecosystem through a network of global multiple learner stakeholders that includes medical students (on electives: http://promotions.bmj.com/jnl/bmj-case-reports-student-electives-2/http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4587042/ ) and health professionals from diverse disciplines. It also includes patients along with their relatives in rural and urban India so that they may benefit from this global learning toward their local caring. The project’s primary focus is on optimization of costs in a manner that can still provide highest quality of care in low resource settings.   

As all these stakeholders are computer users communicating through the web with a user name the network is also known as 'User Driven Health Care' UDHC network. More here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26123908 http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec53081/001.htmhttp://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-user-driven-healthcare/41022

c) Academic collaborator with the Indian Ministry of Health led National Health Sciences and Research Center NHSRC, Delhi in preparing standard treatment guidelines for medical disorders.




Professor (Jun 5, 2008 to July 2014) Associate Professor (From Jan 5th 2008 to Jun 5, 2008): Department of Internal Medicine, People’s College of Medical sciences campus, Bhopal, India. This involved taking independent decisions regarding both out and inpatient management and intensive care. Teaching and documenting clinical problem solving experiences through research articles and designing collaborative projects to improve healthcare outcomes in the community forms an important part of this work experience.










Honorary appointments:


Deputy Editor, BMJ Case reports, UK


Founding Chief Editor, International Journal of User Driven healthcare, US



Regional editor: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, UK.



Reviewer, Medical Education, UK


Reviewer: Research evaluation panel of National Digital Research Centre, Ireland.


Reviewer: Indian Journal of Medical Informatics


Reviewer and member editorial board: Annals of Neurosciences (India) http://annalsofneurosciences.org/journal/index.php/annal/about/editorialTeamBio/159


Principal investigator in a voluntary unfunded program of exploratory discovery, documentation and interpretation project detailed here further: http://userdrivenhealthcare.blogspot.in/2013/10/reaching-out-hospital-services-to.html


Academic co-investigator in a funded program of research (circa 1,000,000 Euros) on health informatics solutions to chronic disease challenges and user driven healthcare by the National Digital Research Centre, Ireland 2011 More here: http://www.igi-global.com/chapter/patient-journey-record-systems-pajr/49246

Thesis examiner, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, University of Bath,UK

Thesis Supervisor, University of Bath, UK and Sikkim Manipal, India


Relevant work related Publications:

Books:

Biswas R, Martin C, User Driven Healthcare and Narrative Medicine, IGI Global, Hershey PA, September 2010




More here :



Associate professor (From Jan 11, 2006-Dec 31st 2007): Department of Internal Medicine, Melaka-Manipal Medical College and Melaka General Hospital, a large tertiary care center in Melaka, Malaysia. Involved in teaching undergraduate medical students through didactic lecture classes, group discussions, bedside clinics and demonstration of practical procedures apart from ward rounds and OPD consultations along with being deputed as a university examiner for the final university exams held every 6 months. During this time also initiated a collaborative research project with Intel Innovation Center, Kuala Lumpur and Ministry of Health, Malaysia.



Relevant work related Publications:

Articles:

Biswas, R., Martin, C., Sturmberg, J., Shankar, R., Umakanth, S., Shanker, & Kasthuri AS. User driven health care - Answering multidimensional information needs in individual patients utilizing post EBM approaches: A conceptual model. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 2008, 14, 742-749.
           
*Biswas, R., Maniam, J., Lee, E.W.H., Das, P.G., Umakanth, S., Dahiya, S., & Ahmed S (2008b) User driven health care- Answering multidimensional information needs in individual patients utilizing post EBM approaches: An operational model. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 14, 750-760.

Chapters:

*Biswas R, Maniam J, Lee EWH, Umakanth S, et al (2009 ) Electronic collaboration toward social health outcomes, in (Eds.) Salmon J, Wilson L, Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy, Hershey, PA: IGI Global publishing, http://www.igi-global.com/chapter/electronic-collaboration-toward-social-health/20208,  http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=20208&ptid=463&t=electronic%20collaboration%20toward%20social%20health%20outcomes


*Biswas R, Martin C et al., Social Cognitive Ontology and User Driven Health Care, in (Eds) S. Hatzipanagos and S. Warburton. Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies, IGI Global: New York


Associate professor (From from 25th March 2004 -Jan7 2006) Dept of Internal Medicine, Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre (VIMSARC), Bangalore and visiting consultant medicine, Manipal Hospital, Bangalore, two large tertiary care centers in Bangalore, India. Involved in teaching undergraduate and junior residents through didactic lecture classes, group discussions, problem based learning and demonstration of practical procedures. Apart from teaching duties was also involved in taking independent decisions regarding both out and inpatient management and intensive care along with performance of diagnostic echocardiographies. Visited Manipal hospital, Bangalore as a locum consultant after completion of official teaching hours in Vydehi Medical College.

Worked on a qualitative study toward Integrating Hospital-Acquired Lessons into Community Health Practice:

Biswas R, Dineshan V, Narasimhamurthy NS, Kasthuri AS Integrating Hospital-Acquired Lessons into Community Health Practice: Optimizing Anti-Microbial Usage in Bangalore,  J Contin Educ Health Prof. (US) 2007 Jun 18;27(2):105-110




Asst Professor (March 2004-April 2001), Lecturer (April 2001-1999 May), dept of Medicine, Manipal College Of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal, a large  tertiary care teaching hospital recognized by the Indian and Nepal
medical councils as well as listed in the WHO directory of world
medical colleges. Actively involved in:
Teaching: In this five year tenure, taught undergraduates and junior
residents by planning and delivering didactic lectures, group
discussions and problem-based learning sessions. Also demonstrated to
the junior residents practical procedures like lumbar punctures,
pleural and ascitic taps, liver and renal biopsies as well as
venesection and insertion of central venous pressure lines via
jugular, subclavian & brachial routes, along with
endotracheal-intubation for putting patients on mechanical ventilators
and monitoring them in respiratory care units. Discussing decision
making strategies for both out and inpatient management and intensive
care with junior residents and consultant colleagues was another vital
component of this teaching learning process.
Research: In this 5 year tenure, critically reviewed and communicated
patient data generated in this hospital in the form of peer
reviewed international publications. Most of this work was in the form of case
reports and a few articles using qualitative investigational
narrative.
Management: Demonstrated an ability to work harmoniously in
the organizational structure of the hospital which values teamwork for
the overall benefit of the patient also independently managed wards
allotted along with house officers and interns. Also demonstrated the
ability to diffuse innovative ideas in patient management (some of
which has been published in international journals).
Professional development: Demonstrated an ability to work within a
system of clinical audit which reviews and monitors patient management
decisions with regard to morbidity and mortality. Also utilized skills
in diagnostic fibre optic esaphagogastroduodenoscopi
es (learnt during
senior residency in hepatology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India) for
providing diagnostic esophagogastrodudenoscopy support service
performing 15-20 procedures per week along with a team of gastro
physicians and surgeons in this hospital. In the last 5 years, till
date performed more than 1000 independent unsupervised diagnostic
fibre-optic esaphagogastroduodenoscopies without any major
complications. Also utilized the training provided in diagnostic
echocardiography by this institute since january 2000, initially with
a professional echocardiologist in Calcutta and subsequently with the
professor of medicine and consultant cardiology to support the rapidly
growing cardiology services in this hospital. Performed on the average
10-15 diagnostic echocardiographies per week and reported them
independently. Also gained a fair understanding of ultrasound and
utilized it in performing ultrasound guided procedures like fine
needle aspiration of tumors, abscess with gratifying results.
An initial interest in wanting to handle all the individual organ
components in the human system was supported by this 5 year working
environment and this led to an advanced overall knowledge of internal
medicine and a decision to remain a lifelong internist physician.



1998-99 Senior Resident in (Dept of Hepatology) PGIMER, Chandigarh,India
A large referral and teaching hospital in India deemed to be of national
importance. Actively involved in management of acute and
chronic liver diseases, performing liver biopsies and assisting in
endoscopies & ERCPs. Submitted a few papers for publication.
Teaching and research: Actively involved in teaching junior residents
in the form of bedside clinics as well as on the job. Participated in
various clinical meetings and journal clubs by presenting as well as
chairing a few. Published a paper on "Endoscopic Variceal Ligation in
pregnancy", in Jan 2000 in the journal GI Endoscopy and one on
endoscopic sclerotherapy of gastric variceal bleeding with
n-Butyl-2-Cyanoacrylate in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology
(2002).




1995-98 Junior Resident (Post graduate training program in Dept of Internal Medicine) PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.
Worked in  Rheumatology, Hematology, Oncology, Nephrology,
Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, Cardiology, Neurology, Hepatology,
Respiratory Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Dermatology and
Emergency Medicine and Critical Care, etc. Evaluated both out and in
patients, discussed lines of management with consultants. Gave
chemotherapies, intrathecals, and inserted central venous pressure
lines via jugular, subclavian & brachial routes, apart from
venesection. Intubated and put patients on mechanical ventilators and
monitored them in respiratory care units. Also did lumbar punctures,
pleural and ascitic taps as well as liver and renal biopsies.

Teaching and research:
During junior residency participated in various group discussions,
seminars, grand round, clinical meetings, clinico-pathological
conferences, mortality meetings by attending most of the sessions as
well as presenting and chairing a few.
Completed a thesis on "The predictors of response to endoscopic
dilation in corrosive strictures of esophagus." This was accepted in
June1997 as a requisite for the MD degree.





1993-94 House Job: In Cardiology and Intensive Coronary Care, Calcutta
National Medical College.  Performed OPD, Ward and ICCU duties as a
first on call.




1992-93 Rotating Internship: Exposure to Surgery, Gynecology and
Obstetrics, Community Medicine apart from Internal Medicine.




Technical Proficiencies: Medical Education, Medical problem solving,
Echocardiography and Color Doppler: Independent operations and reporting.
Endoscopy (Diagnostic upper gastro intestinal tract): Independent
operation and reporting.

English language proficiency: IELTS completed with 8 in all the bands

Working knowledge of basic computer applications.

Core Competencies:
Enthusiasm, pro-activity and commitment to professional service. Analytical capabilities, familiarity and comfort with scientific and clinical data. Team collaborator, ability to be successful working in virtual, multi-cultural teams. Flexibility and willingness to learn fast and grow professionally

Extra Curricular Activities:

Wrote an academic novel: "The Conscious Notebook" released June 2009 by Nova Science publishers, New York.

Participated with voluntary non-governmental organizations in providing Medical aid to remote rural areas of the Sunderban Tiger Reserve.

Accompanied mountaineering expeditions to Himalayas as a treating physician. Did a basic mountaineering course from Institute of Mountaineering, Manali, Himachal Pradesh, India. Served as an editor for the grad school literary journal.

Philosophy
View the patient as a whole and work for his/her benefit either in
routine management or in research.

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