DNB

Diplomate of National Board (DNB) is the title awarded by the National Board of Examinations (NBE), an autonomous academic body under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India to candidates who successfully complete their postgraduate or postdoctoral medical education under it.

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BENGALURU: Last week, the parliamentary standing committee on health recommended that the Diplomate of National Board (DNB) qualification awarded by the National Board of Examination (NBE) shall be equivalent to Doctor of Medicine (MD).

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DNB is slightly difficult to pass than MD. It is because of some of the factors like: OSCEs, different set of examiners, anxiety, different place of examination etc.

Every year 2 primary DNB and 2 secondary Orthopaedic DNB candidates are taken in through the June DNB entrance exam. The postgraduates are posted in OPD, Casualty, Wards and in the OT. There are general and private wards where the PG will get exposed to manage the patients on a one-to-one basis. For the first 4-6 weeks, the fresh PGs must observe the working of the hospital in the casualty, wards and OPD. Following this, they must observe the working of the OT. The OPD’s are on all day long. Casualty duties are 24-hour duties which will be gruelling and tedious, but they train you in and out. OT runs all day every day except on Sundays when cases may be posted if there are emergencies.

7.30 am daily class for discussion of Admissions, Pre-ops and post op cases. This is followed by a short presentation by the Pgs. The consultants are present in the meeting and last 24 hours update is taken. All the fractures are discussed with their treatment options.

The academic meeting is followed by Rounds, rounds of the hospital ensue where its mandatory for all the DNB trainees to attend. Following this, all Trainees must work according to their allocated duties (OPD, Casualty, Wards or OT).

Case Load- Every aspect of the field of Orthopaedics is dealt with here. The Outpatient department load is high, so a variety of cases are encountered. Every interesting case is thoroughly discussed and evening case for discussion slot is available at 4 pm. The theatre load is also very High, and the variety of cases are dealt with.

We have Orthopaedic trauma and Emergency Department, Arthroplasty, Sports Medicine, Robotic Joint replacement centre (First of its kind with the latest Robotic arm assisted technology), Spine Academy, Musculoskeletal oncology (Bone cancer department)

What we aim at AIOR that proper surgical skills are taught. We train Orthopaedic surgeons and not Orthopaedic Technicians so the biomechanical principals and the treatment options are discussed in details. The PG trainees will be given chances according to their functioning in the institute.