Dr. Shivdas Rajaram Naik

To conduct undergraduate (MBBS), postgraduate (MD), and super-specialty (DM) teaching programs in Infectious Diseases, including teaching of MBBS students during elective postings and training of MD Medicine and MD Community Medicine residents during departmental rotations. To provide teaching in various aspects of Infectious Diseases including Antimicrobial Stewardship, Infection Prevention and Control, HIV Medicine, Tropical Medicine, multidrug-resistant infections, vaccination strategies, and emerging infectious diseases. To deliver academic activities including didactic lectures, bedside clinics, ward rounds, seminars, journal clubs, case presentations, mortality and morbidity meetings, and interdisciplinary discussions. To provide bedside clinical teaching with emphasis on clinical reasoning, diagnostic approach, interpretation of microbiological and radiological investigations, and evidence-based management of infectious diseases.

To train undergraduate and postgraduate students, residents, interns, nursing staff, and allied healthcare personnel in rational antimicrobial usage, antimicrobial stewardship principles, infection prevention practices, occupational safety, biomedical waste management, and hospital infection control measures. To supervise and mentor postgraduate dissertation and thesis work, including guidance in research methodology, protocol preparation, literature review, critical appraisal of scientific literature, data analysis, manuscript writing, scientific publication, and application of current evidence-based clinical guidelines and recent advances in Infectious Diseases into clinical practice.

To participate in curriculum planning, competency-based medical education (CBME) implementation, academic scheduling, and assessment methodologies in accordance with NMC and university requirements. To prepare and conduct formative and summative assessments including theory examinations, practical and clinical examinations, viva voce, Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE), and internal assessments for departmental postgraduate students. To organize and coordinate Continuing Medical Education (CME) programs, workshops, conferences, symposia, faculty development programs, and academic training sessions related to Infectious Diseases and Infection Control. To contribute to development of teaching materials, standard treatment protocols, clinical guidelines, departmental academic documents, interdisciplinary academic collaborations, academic audits, departmental review meetings, and quality improvement initiatives aimed at strengthening medical education and patient care standards.