Department
Name of department: Orthopaedics and Spine Surgery
Head of department: Rajasekaran Shanmuganathan
Surgeon in charge of fellows: Dheenadhyalan Jayaramaraju
Scrub in
Is there an opportunity for the AO Fellows to scrub in? Yes
Is there any additional / special license required to scrub in? Registration from State (Tamilnadu) Medical Council
More information
Number of beds in department: 600
Total Orthopedic trauma cases per year: > 1000
Total Polytrauma cases with injury severity score greater than 15 per year: > 150
Other activities: Trauma review meetings held every Monday , Wednesday, Friday for one hour discussing all the postt operative Xrays and planning for difficult preoperative cases, General clinics- held weekly once every Satutday involving all departmental fellows and consultants
Language
Dominant language spoken in the operating room: English
English written and spoken by our team members: written (5)* / spoken (5)*
* Level of proficiency, with 1 equaling basic and 5 equaling proficient.