Department of General Surgery

Academic Courses:

• MBBS (125 students each year)
• MS (General Surgery) [5 students each session]
• Diploma in Operation Theatre technology

Upcoming Academic courses:

• PDCC/Fellowship in Minimal Access Surgery
• PDCC/Fellowship in Breast and Endocrine surgery
• MCh in Minimal Access surgery & MCh Breast and Endocrine Surgery

Research:

Many well-designed research projects are continuing in the department involving all the core areas like general surgery, breast cancer, Pancreas, head neck cancer etc. We have collaborated with many reputed research institution namely NIBMG, IISER, Bose Institute and Kalyani University.  The outcomes of many of the research programs would be presented in leading national and international conferences and would be published in leading medical journals.

Already completed & ongoing research Projects:

Project:

• Role of ETS1 transcription factor in metastatic triple negative breast cancer; in collaboration with Dr Nirmalya Sen, SN Bose Innovation centre, Kalyani University & Bose Institute, Kolkata
• ‘Discovery of potential molecular targets against NOTCH- active and inactive states of stemness in gingivobuccal oral cancer’, in collaboration with Dr Sandeep Singh, NIBMG, Kalyani
• Circulating cell free DNA as a blood-based biomarker for breast cancer diagnosis: A pilot study; in collaboration with Dr Kartiki V. Desai, NIBMG, Kalyani
• Investigation and comparison of the gut microbiome between patients suffering from acute pancreatitis, chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma; in collaboration with Dr Srikanta Goswami, NIBMG, Kalyani
• Prevalence and pattern of genitourinary diseases and associated risk factors: the dilemma of surgical health in a tribal community of Kalyani, East lndia; Intramural Project at AIIMS Kalyani.
• Understanding the molecular pathogenesis of Benign breast Disease (Fibrocystic Mastopathy); Intramural project at AIIMS Kalyani.
• ICMR STS Project: Prevalence and coexistence of chronic anal fissure and haemorrhoids in patients visiting surgical OPD of AIIMS Kalyani. (Completed)

Publication:

• Comprehensive evaluation of various available surgical management of Fistula in Ano : Experience in a tertiary care centre of India. International Journal of scientific research,volume 9,issue 10, October2020.
• Pleomorphic adenoma of the upper lip: A rare site for a common tumor; SN Comprehensive Clinical Medicine 5(1), 178, 2023.
• A comparative analytical study on outcome of secondary peritonitis using Mannheim’s peritonitis index in geographically diverse Indian patients; Turk J Surg 2023; 39 (4): 300-309.