Established in 1970 Department of Orthopaedics Gandhi Medical College Bhopal is situated in 9 th floor of newly constructed block B of Hamidia hospital. The department is headed by Prof. Dr Suneet Tandon . The department has 4 Professor including a total of 17 faculty which adds to the experience and spectrum of Orthopaedics treatment options provided by the department. The department admits 13 students every year to undergo post graduation in orthopaedics (MS Orthopaedics) and has 5 senior residents.Orthopedics department strive for academic excellence and routine academic calendar includes seminars, journal club, case presentation, interdepartment meetings,skill labs. We have been conducting PG Teaching course regularly which attracts postgraduate from all across the country.
The Annual OPD is around 60000/yr, major elective surgery about 150/ month and about 5000 trauma emergency visits per year.
Department owns state of the art arthroscopy simulator which is used to train students in the field of arthroscopy.
Department of Orthopaedics conducts advanced surgical procedure including complex limb reconstruction,complex joint replacement, spine surgery, pelviacetabular reconstruction ,revision joint replacement etc. Department also runs Regional spinal injury and planning to start centre centre of excellence in orthopaedics very soon. The department is credited for performing first robotic joint replacement surgery in government setup.
The department conducts OPD for regular orthopaedics ailments on all weekdays and provides 24*7 emergency Orthopaedic care.
Orthopaedics department also conduct sports injury clinic, joint replacement clinic, CTEV clinic in addition to routine Orthopaedics services.
