Swachhata Abhiyana - NIPT

Nitte Institute of Physiotherapy participated in Ramakrishna Mission’s “Mangaluru Swachhata Abhiyana” - 5th phase Shramadana on 28th April 2019. A total of 15 students along with two faculty members, Mr. Subhashchandra Rai and Mr. Ranganatha participated actively in the event. They cleaned the premises and created awareness amongst the public on cleanliness and hygiene at Gandhi Nagar, Urva, Mangalore.

Au Revoir 19 - NIPT

New beginning for translational research in India - Press release

First place in the intercollegiate Mangaluru Zone Handball Tournament 2018-19 organised by SMVITM - Press release

Summer vacation camp at Nitte

CME INVITATION - KSHEMA

New beginning for translational research in India

The present translational research in India will not be able to achieve its objectives unless important changes in education and training modules are addressed. The T1 (bench to bedside) and T2 (bedside to bench) phases of translational research are complimentary and need important resources mostly financial, that requires quality collaborations between clinical and molecular scientists. It is important to note that in India, a lot of emphasis was given to develop physician-scientists (T2) and despite all the euphoria, innovations in the biomedical field have been negligible. The T1 cycle that exploits the expertise of majority research scientists outside the medical institutes like universities and academic institutions have not been well integrated. It is extremely important to link molecular networks with clinical observations to complete the T1-T2 cycle. Especially in a country as big as ours and low investments in research, more emphasis must be given to biomedical related problems where the scientific community works in tandem with clinicians. In this direction, Institute for Applied Research and Innovation (InARI) and NITTE (Deemed to be University) have joined hands by signing MoU on 9.4.2019 to create training, education and research programs apt for Indian healthcare needs. InARI focuses on applied research with direct benefits to society and healthcare is its top priority. By signing this MoU with NITTE (Deemed to be University), a premier medical institute, a new chapter has begun in translational research for India.

Dr. Rajani Kanth Vangala (Founder and Managing Trustee of InARI) and Dr. Poornima V (Co-founder and Trustee – InARI) with Prof. Dr. Satheesh Kumar Bhandary (Vice Chancellor, NITTE (Deemed to be University), Prof. Dr. Alka Kulkarni (Registrar, NITTE (Deemed to be University), Prof. Dr. Harsha Halahalli, Director (Curriculum Development), NITTE (Deemed to be University), Dr. Suchetha Kumari N( Principal Scientific Officer, CRL, KSHEMA, NITTE (Deemed to be University) and Mr. C. Unnikrishnan (Chief Editor Future Medicine Journal).

World Malaria Day Invitation - NUCSER

NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON QUALITATIVE METHODS IN HEALTH RESEARCH - KSHEMA

Inauguration of 'Technology Barrier Reduction Program-2019'

MoU BETWEEN NMAM INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, NITTE AND UIPATH

NMAMIT, announced the signing of an agreement with UiPath, the leading enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company on 12th April 2019. The agreement under UiPath Academic Alliance program will help NMAMIT ramp up educators with skills of the future and also offer courses related to Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to its students. The agreement was signed in the presence of Mr. Rajesh Nambiar, Director, UiPath AA; Mr. Basavadarshan, Program Manager, UiPath AA; Dr. Niranjan N Chiplunkar, Principal, NMAMIT and other dignitaries of NMAMIT.

UiPath Academic Alliance program was launched in September 2018 with a vision to create an automated and fully-employed world. The Academic Alliance program empowers people from all walks of life - pupils, university students, educators and business professionals alike, to access automation training and leverage it in the workplace of the future. Under its Automation First initiative, the UiPath Academic Alliance is committed to serving more than one million students and one thousand schools in the next three years.

NMAMIT will receive curriculum, course content, learning materials, regular educator training and software tools, to provide training to students. UiPath will also provide program support in terms of examination papers and sample assignments.

NMAMIT gives importance to industry collaborations to skill and re-skill its students. By signing an MoU with UiPath, NMAMIT looks forward to enhancing faculty competency, students’ internships and placements.

The fourth Industrial Revolution is disrupting and reshaping every industry. Technologies like artificial intelligence and automation are driving productivity and redefining the future of work. RPA is playing an instrumental role in helping us automate mundane tasks and saves time for higher level work. RPA is also anticipated to create new jobs requiring higher-level cognitive thinking and creativity.

APSM World Health Day Quiz - KSHEMA

The APSM World Health Day Quiz was successfully conducted by the Dept. of Community Medicine, KSHEMA with the support of IAPSM. The elimination round was conducted on 2nd April 2019 in which a total of 16 teams and 47 students participated. A total of 7 teams from the 6th term and 9 teams from the 4th term participated in the Quiz.

The final round was conducted on 8th April 2019 by Dr Pavan Kumar K and Dr Sathvik Rai, Assistant Professors, Dept of Community Medicine. The team comprising VI term students, Mr Udath M, Ms Harmanjot Kaur and Mr Rohan Raj won the World Health Day Quiz 2019. The Quiz was followed by prize distribution by Dr. Jayaprakash Shetty, Vice Dean (Admn), KSHEMA. and Dr Sanjeev Badiger, Head, Dept. of Community Medicine, KSHEMA.

KSHEMA Boys Cricket Team won the Runner up Trophy - KSHEMA

The KSHEMA Boys Cricket Team won the Runner up Trophy at the Dakshina Kannada District Professional Colleges (Medical, Dental & Engineering) Cricket Tournament organized by Dakshina Kannada District Cricket Association at Nehru Stadium, Mangaluru. A total of 16 colleges participated in the tournament.

Public Awareness Program - KSHEMA

The Department of Community Medicine, KSHEMA, in association with Sasihithlu Rural Health Training Centre organized an awareness program on “Universal Health Coverage” on 4th April 2019 in view of World Health Day.

The program was conducted at the Yuvaka Sangha Mandala, Sasihitlu under the guidance of Dr. Rashmi Kundapur, Professor and Dr. Pavan Kumar K, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Community Medicine, KSHEMA and Dr Indushekar Shetty, Medical Officer, Sasihithlu RHTC. The program was moderated by Mr. Santhosh, MSW, KSHEMA assisted by Mr.Dilip, Dr. Sachin and interns Yashaswi, Yashwanth and Gibson.

A talk was given by Dr. Pavan Kumar K, on Universal Health Coverage and Arogya Karnataka and by Dr. Rashmi Kundapur on Primary Healthcare and Ayushman Bharath. Dr Indushekar Shetty spoke about the healthcare facilities that were available, the role of health workers and government schemes.

Achievement in other extra-curricular activities - KSHEMA

Students of the IV and VI term participated in the Poster Competition organised by the Indian Medical Association during the Mangalore Health Expo on 6th & 7th April 2019 at Kadri Park. The VI term students, Ms Sharon Gigy and Tummula Durganjali secured the second place and IV term students, S Pradnya, Anagha N, Farhana, Kiran Jacob and Sahil secured the third place in the poster competition. Dr.Pavan K, Dr.Sathvik and post graduates, Dr Harshitha and Dr.Sachin from the Dept of Community Medicine helped in designing the posters and assisted them.

Substance Abuse Training Workshop - KSHEMA

The Department of Psychiatry conducted a Substance Abuse Training Workshop for faculty of different colleges under Nitte (Deemed to be University) on 29th March 2019 at the Medical Education Unit Hall, KSHEMA. 

Dr Santosh Prabhu, Asst. Professor, Dr. Gunasagari Rao, Professor, Psychiatric Social Work and Ms Mamatha Bhandary, Student Counsellor were the resource persons and delivered sessions on the following topics:

1. Substance abuse among students.
2. Understanding substance abuse.
3. Different kinds of substance abuse prevalent among students.
4. How to motivate students to take professional help for substance abuse management and recovery, alongside counseling, therapeutic sessions and medication.
5. How to identify substance abuse among students and refer for treatment and intervention.
6. To motivate and help students to have healthy life choices.
7. To incorporate drug prevention activities wherever possible.

Opening of the Children’s Intensive Care Complex - KSHEMA

The Department of Pediatrics, Justice K.S. Hegde Charitable Hospital, Deralakatte is happy to announce the opening of the Children’s Intensive Care Complex on 24th March 2019 by Dr B N Gangadhar, Director, NIMHANS and Member, Board of Governors.  Spread over 5000 square feet, the Complex includes a state-of-the-art 13-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and 10-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). Both the units will be served by Intensivists qualified in neonatal and pediatric intensive care, ably assisted 24x7 by a team of specialists, residents and nursing personnel. The unit is supported by multi-disciplinary super specialty services. Keeping with the values of the institution and its commitment to social responsibility, the services have been made available at affordable costs.

Highlights: 

• 24x7 emergency services for all sick newborns and sick children including burns and trauma.
• Non-invasive ventilation through bubble CPAP, High Flow Nasal Canula and BiPAP
• Level IIIb neonatal care with advanced ventilation including High Frequency Oscillation.
• Non-invasive and invasive hemodynamic monitoring with latest generation multi para monitors, bedside ultrasonogram and echocardiogram.
• Skilled procedures like central line, umbilical catheterization and chest tube insertion.
• High level incubators for preterm care.
• Peritoneal, hemodialysis and plasmapheresis facilities.
• Isolation facility with HEPA filter and dedicated nursing for children with immunosuppression.
• Post-operative care for surgeries.

The Complex is provided with HEPA filters and hospital-grade vinyl flooring for better infection control. 

Workshop on Research Methodology for the students of DNB - KSHEMA

K S Hegde Medical Academy, in association with the National Board of Examination, New Delhi, Tejaswini Hospital and SSIOT, Mangaluru conducted a Workshop on Research Methodology for the students of DNB on 16th and 17th March, 2019 at Tejaswini Hospital.

Around 20 DNB students across India participated in the Workshop. Updates on research methodology, formulating research question/hypothesis, review of literature, introduction to zotero/pubmed, study designs and statistics, data management, qualitative research, good clinical practice, ethics in research and discussion/conclusion were the topics discussed. Feedback from the participants was very good. Dr Shantharam Shetty, Chairman, Tejaswini Hospital was the Chief Advisor and Dr Jayaprakash Shetty K, Vice Dean (Admn), KSHEMA was the Organizing Secretary. Dr Yogesh Gowda, Consultant Arthroscopic Surgeon, Tejaswini Hospital was the Co-ordinator of the Workshop.

Interactive session on “Career Opportunities Overseas - KSHEMA

The Placement and Career Guidance Cell of KS Hegde Medical Academy organised an interactive session on “Career Opportunities Overseas” for students of MBBS and Allied Health Sciences on 11th March 2019. Mrs. Priya K, Branch & Operations Head, Planet Education, Karnataka was the resource person.

CME / Symposium - KSHEMA

The Department of General Medicine organized a CME / Symposium on 21st March 2019 at Justice K.S.Hegde Charitable Hospital on “NEW INSULIN FOR POSTPRANDIAL HYPERGLYCEMIA by Dr Srikrishna V Acharya, MD, DM, MRCP, Consultant Endocrinologist, KSHEMA

Workshop - KSHEMA

The Department of Community Medicine organized a Workshop on the "PCPNDT Act" on 14th March at RAPCC Wenlock, for Anganwadi Supervisors and Block Development Officers. The inauguration was held at RAPCC with the legal judiciary in-charge being part of it. Dr Rashmi Kundapur, Professor, Department of Community Medicine, KSHEMA carried out the session as resource person on "Population Science and Sex ratio". There were around 170 participants at the venue. Apart from sessions on the PCPNDT Act, there were sessions on complications of declining sex ratio by other resource persons.

CME / Symposium - KSHEMA

The Department of Biochemistry and Medical Laboratory Technology jointly organised a Continuing Medical Education program on “Updating Laboratory Skills” at K S Hegde Medical Academy, Deralakatte on 27th March 2019.

Dr. Sukanya Shetty, Professor & Head, Department of Biochemistry; Dr. Kishan Prasad H L, Additional Professor, Department of Pathology and Dr Krishna Prasad H V, Asst. Professor, Department of Pathology, K S Hegde Medical Academy, Mangaluru and Mr Lawrence Sequeira of BD India Pvt. Ltd. were the Resource Persons for the CME. Around 230 delegates from various Medical Laboratory Technology colleges attended the CME. A Poster competition was organised, the theme being “Laboratory Safety”. 40 students participated in the competition. The first place was bagged by Ms Nazia Ibrahim, II BSc (MLT) and second place by Mr Ganesh Bovi, I BSc (MLT), KSHEMA.

Health Camp / Outreach Program - KSHEMA

The Department of General Medicine organized a Health Camp / Outreach Program on 23rd & 24th March at Government Higher Primary School in Shivamogga. Dr.Chethan Subramanya, Asst. Professor, Dept.of General Medicine, attended the medical check-up camp at Bhadravathi and Shivamogga arranged by the Lions Club of Bhadravathi. Around 150 patients attended the camp over a period of two days. About 100 patients were offered free oral medication. Patients requiring angiogram, chemotherapy and surgeries were referred to KSHEMA for further management and given symptomatic treatment.

MoU between NMAMIT and KSPL

Nitte Mahalinga Adyanthaya Memorial Institute of Technology, Nitte and M/s Kakunje Software Private Limited (KSPL), Mangaluru have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding on 9th April 2019 at NMAMIT campus.

The salient features of the MoU are working together on student internship, project work, industry supported courses to enrich the curriculum, skill development courses, research and consultancy. The realization of commercial products through indigenous research and development work is the highlight of the MoU. The MoU was signed by Dr. Niranjan Chiplunkar, Principal, NMAMIT and Mr. Gopalakrishna Kakunje, Director of KSPL in the presence of Dr. Srinivasa Rao B. R., Vice Principal & Controller of Examinations; Dr. A. N. Parameswaran, Director, Institute-Industry Interaction; Dr. Shashikantha Karinka, Head, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Dr. Muralidhara, PG Co-ordinator. The MoU is expected to provide a win-win situation for students, faculty and also the industry.

KITS Team visits NAIN Centre of NMAMIT

New Age Incubation Network Centres are aimed at assisting the educational institutions to nurture an ecosystem for promoting entrepreneurship and innovation in different states of Karnataka. As part of the process, Dr. B.S Basanti, KAS, General Manager – Karnataka Innovation & Technological Society (KITS) accompanied by Mr. Mohan Kumar, Executive - KITS from NAIN team visited NMAMIT to inspect the facilities. Mr. Shashank Shetty, ICM, NAIN gave a brief presentation to the officials on various activities of NAIN from the year of inspection. Later, the team was taken through the campus and an interaction session was arranged with the students on the funded projects. The NAIN team was led by Dr.Niranjan N Chiplunkar, Principal of NMAM Institute of Technology.

Dr. B.S Basanti viewed the presentation of all the student projects which were sanctioned for funding. She interacted with the Heads of Companies and Start-Ups in the campus. During the interaction, the representatives demonstrated the various products developed by their respective companies and discussed their future road maps.

A total of 48 projects have been selected for the seed funding by NAIN from the year 2014. The visit of the KITS team was co-ordinated by the NAIN internal co-ordinators, Ms. Ankitha A Nayak, Asst Professor, CSE; Mr. Rajath Rao, Asst Professor, ME; Mr. Puneeth R.P, Mr. Krishna Prasad N Rao, Asst Professors, CSE and Incubation Center Manager, Mr. Shashank Shetty. The KITS team also visited the Centre for Student Innovation (CFSI) and appreciated the various research activities undertaken in the campus.

Third Nitte International Film Festival inaugurated - NICO

Mangaluru Apr 8: The third edition of Nitte International film festival (NIFF) was inaugurated by the director and national award winner P Sheshadri here at Bharath Cinemas on Monday April 8. The four-day festival will conclude on April 11.

Speaking on the occasion, P Sheshadri said, "Festivals are meant to raise questions. We will not always get our answers in literature, music, and art. We will have to find the answers within. It is commendable that NITTE is organizing this event on a large scale,”

"Every year more than 250 films are produced, Out of that, 5 to 6 good films are made. Good audiences emerge when good films are made. My first film Munnudi was shot in Mangaluru and ran for 5 weeks in Mangaluru theaters. Mangalureans always welcomed good films wholeheartedly. This International film festival is an eye-opener for other institutions too.” he added.

Pro Chancellor NITTE Dr Shantharam Shetty pointed that great actor Gurudutt and Sunil Shetty are from Mangaluru. “Films need to be educative on a large scale and it is our duty to make such films.” he said.

Convener of Nitte International Film festival Prof Raviraj welcomed the gathering and Maithrei compered the event.

Two days Training on Advanced TIG and MIG Welding Process- NMAMIT - Press release

Justice K S Hegde Institute of Management, Nitte offers specialization in 4 areas.

Free “NATA” power workshop at Mangalore - NIA

NITTE (Deemed to be University) is ranked 70th in NIRF 2019

Free “NATA” power workshop at Mangalore - NIA

Nitte Institute of Architecture (NIA) is currently hosting a two-day power workshop for students interested in cracking the NATA examinations on April 10 and 11. This free workshop is in association with DQ Labs who have excelled in NATA training. The sessions are being conducted at the Nitte Education International building, Pumpwell, Mangaluru. NATA (National Aptitude Test in Architecture) exam is a prequalification for entrance into architecture degree programs all over the country.

Aspiring NATA candidates are undergoing a crash course that includes mock tests, and intense exercises on perspective drawing, architectural awareness, visual spatial ability, mental ability and logical reasoning. More than 80 focussed aspiring candidates from in and around Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Chikmagaluru, Kodagu, North Karnataka and Kerala are attending this workshop.

This is an outreach program by NIA and Nitte (Deemed to be University) to help students of the region acquire skills in a short duration free of cost. NIA encourages a lot of student-friendly workshops and seminars, and is organizing this workshop for the third consecutive year. The NATA exam is on Sunday, April 14th, 2019.

Human chain to create voting awareness - NSS activity

A large number of people took part in the human chain formed from Thalapady to Sasihithlu, Mangalore to create an awareness on voting on 7th April 2019. The program was organised by Systematic Voters Education and Electoral Participation Committee (SVEEP), DK and the District administration.

Students from K. S Hegde Medical Academy and Nitte Gulabi Shetty Memorial Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences along with faculty, Dr. Vijay Kumar, Asst. Professor, NGSMIPS and Mr. Shashi Kumar Shetty, NSS Programme Officer, KSHEMA actively participated in the program.