IIT Madras Students to be Taught by renowned surgeons, medical specialists
Chennai: Renowned surgeons and medical specialists will soon teach the students of IIT-Madras, who are pursuing bachelor of science programme in medical sciences and technology department.
The list of such surgeons includes the Director of MIOT Institute of Nephrology Rajan Ravichandran, cardiac surgeon Ajit Mullasari from Madras Medical Mission; cardio-thoracic surgeon K.R. Balakrishnan, chairman of the Institute of Cardiac Sciences and director of Institute of Heart and Lung Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support, MGM Healthcare; Karthik Kailash, head of Spine Surgery department, Sri Ramachandra University; ophthalmologist Rajiv Raman, senior consultant and retinal expert from Sankara Nethralaya.
Students of IIT-Madras will be taught by practising doctors and engineers so that they can become an important link in the future of clinical practice.
Commenting on this, the course coordinator R. Krishna Kumar told The Hindu that the treatment advice of these graduating students may prove to be a vital input for the treating physicians or surgeons.
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