Today one of the PG trainee of our General Surgery team was telling the assistant professor about the procedure he performed on some specific patient who needed hernial repair. While doing that, he mixed the terms herniorrhaphy and hernioplasty! The asst. professor asked him to explain herniorraphy vs hernioplasty, he got confused! What an embarrassment! … Read more
One of our visitor asked me a question: How to relieve muscle pain after jogging ? Well, I’ll list out a few points to overcome the muscle pain in legs after jogging / running after elaborating why exactly this pain occurs. Why do we have muscle pain after jogging normal wear and tear of the … Read more
I’ve been in general medicine team 2 of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences with Dr Rauf Niazi team for more than a month and since my day one, there wasn’t any ecg machine in the ward. It’s not that the ECG machine was malfunctioning or had some issue, there was NO ECG machine at all in the … Read more
Well, this might vary from hospital to hospital and country to country, but I’ll share what we have here in PIMS, Islamabad, for the house officers. This is what I’ve experienced myself during my housejob in General Medicine team- 2 of Dr Rauf Niazi in Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad, the tertiary care hospital … Read more
Every profession has its own tools that the professional should have readily available with him. These tools are necessary because the professional might not be able to perform the tasks properly without them. Same goes for the surgeons, or the interns of surgery. They should carry a few items with them all the time, specially … Read more
We have dialer flow in hospitals which are used for ml/hour flow of the i/v fluid that we give to the patient. But in some cases we might require knowing how to adjust the flow without the dialer flow. For example when you’re in some ambulance where you don’t have any instrument available to calculate … Read more
This post is about medical and surgical wards in Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences and which departments they are of. This is the list of wards of main PIMS hospital. This don’t include paeds, gynae and burn unit. The main building of PIMS hospital has two floors. The ground floor is for medical wards and … Read more
Pakistan Institute of Medial Sciences (PIMS) is also known as complex hospital in general people. The Surgery house job duty structure in PIMS is as follows. Surgery Housejob Schedule in PIMS Duty starts at 8:00 am morning. There are three surgery teams. G/S-1, G/S-2, G-S-3. Every team is divided into 4 batches. However there are … Read more
Pakistan Institute of Medial Sciences will conduct the summer 2012 test on 29th july 2012. Last date for submission of the application forms for housejob in pims for this session is 21st july 2012. Application forms for house job are available from PIMS administration. Requirements for pims housejob application (all documents to be attested) application … Read more
We, as a nation, have a very weak memory as well as common sense . . . In the current scenario, everyone is just trying to yell at one party, and infact one person, shahbaz sharif, for the issue between doctors and government. Fair enough, let me make it clear, i am not at all … Read more