IQAC
ABOUT IQAC:
In pursuance of the National Action Plan of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), Bangalore, for performance evaluation, assessment and accreditation and quality up gradation of institutions of higher education, the NAAC proposes that every accredited institution should establish an Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) as a post accreditation quality sustenance measure. Since quality enhancement is a continuous process, the IQAC will become a part of an institution’s system and work towards realizing the goals of quality enhancement and sustenance. The prime task of the IQAC is to develop a system for conscious, consistent and catalytic improvement in the performance of institutions. The IQAC will make a significant and meaningful contribution in the post accreditation phase of institutions. During the post-accreditation period, the IQAC will channelize the efforts and measures of an institution towards academic excellence.
VISION
To ensure a purposeful and continuous quality programme of action to enhance the academic and administrative performance of the institution towards academic excellence.
MISSION
• To channelize and systematize progressive performance of academic and administrative system.
• To Optimize and integrate the contemporary methods of teaching-learning process to inculcate value and outcome based education.
• To contribute to the development of medicine by active participation in scholarly in medical field.
• To participate in quality management initiatives to enhance quality in education.
OBJECTIVES:
• To steer the team to achieve the vision of the institute
• To develop a system for the continuous, consistent endeavor for quality assurance and sustenance in the academic and administrative excellence
• To promote measures for research, reforms with innovations in teaching-learning and assessment
• To get feedback from stakeholders for quality improvement
Functions:
- Developing parameters for various academic and administrative activities of the institution.
- Ensuring faculty training for required knowledge and technology and facilitating participatory teaching and learning process
- Periodical conduct of Academic and Administrative Audit and its follow-up
- Collection and analysis of feedback from all stakeholders and submits the report to the academic council.
- Dissemination of information on various quality parameters to all stakeholders through the website of the institute.
IQAC may be constituted in every institution under the Chairmanship of the Head of the institution with heads of important academic and administrative units and a few teachers and a few distinguished educationists and representatives of local management and stakeholders. The composition of the IQAC may be as follows:
- Chairperson: Head of the Institution
- Teachers to represent all level (Three to eight)
- One member from the Management
- Few Senior administrative officers
- One nominee each from local society, Students and Alumni
- One nominee each from Employers /Industrialists/Stakeholders
- One of the senior teachers as the coordinator/Director of the IQAC
The composition of the IQAC will depend on the size and complexity of the institution, accordingly the representation of teachers may vary. It helps the institutions in planning and monitoring. IQAC also gives stakeholders or beneficiaries a cross-sectional participation in the institution’s quality enhancement activities. The guidelines given here are only indicative and will help the institutions for quality sustenance activities.
The IQAC should meet at least once in every quarter. The quorum for the meeting shall be two-third of the total number of members. The agenda, minutes and Action Taken Reports are to be documented with official signatures and maintained electronically in a retrievable format.
| S.No | Our Goals/Future plan | 1-4 yrs | 5-8 yrs | 9-12 yrs |
| 1. | Accreditions/Approvals/Recognitions | |||
| To get accreditation from NAAC. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To get accreditation from NABH. | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| To get a good National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranking. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To enhance UG seats to 200 seats intake per annum | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To enhance the number of PG seats intake for pre, Para clinical and clinical departments. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To attain Deemed to be University Status | ||||
| 2. | Academic and Examination | |||
| To achieve and maintain excellent academic results with hands on clinical skills and troubleshooting approach | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To improve student’s results in academics and make them to achieve top grades at University level. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To introduce and effectively implement add on/ Value added Courses to UG and PG students. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To improve the success rate of students performance in the competitive examinations like PG NEET, JIPMER, INI CET,AIIMS PG,USMLE, PLAB etc. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To get approvals to increase seats in PG courses | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To maintain greater accountability and transparency in examinations by increasing the use of software in examination cell . | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To become a centre of medical excellence and achieve academic autonomy. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 3. | Resource generation and Research & Development | |||
| To publish research papers by UG and PG students and facultyatboth national and International level journals. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To write and get the research grants from various funding agencies. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To file and publish National/International Patents. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To establish and strengthen Incubation Centre and Start-ups in association with ICMR. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To set up an industry-sponsored advanced research laboratories. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To generate funds through research oriented consultancy services. | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| To establish fully functional Research and Development center. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 4. | Training, Industry-Institute Interaction and Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) | |||
| To guide students for getting training in leading Medical Institutes and Hospitals. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To organize faculty development programs (FDP’s) on clinical practice. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To establish collaborations/MOUs for employability skill development. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To establish Collaborations/MOU’s with leading core Medical institutes and Hospitals for training, on the job training, internship, placement and inviting industry experts for faculty / students training and possible collaborations with academic institutes of National importance such as AIIMS etc. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To increase awareness for entrepreneurship (to organize entrepreneurship awareness/development camp) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To facilitate faculty and student exchange programs through National/International collaborations, Signing MoUs with foreign organizations to enhance international student and faculty exchanges. | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| 5. | Curricular, Co-curricular and Extracurricular Activities | |||
| To increase active participation of students and staff in curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities at University/State/ National/ International level. (Innovation/ NPW/ IPA activities, sports and games etc.) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 6. | Human Resource-Recruitment and Development | |||
| To organize CMEs, Workshops, State / National / International seminar /conference/ Faculty Development Programs | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To enhance participations of teaching and non-teaching staff in International conferences, symposia, seminars, and training programs. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To invite industry experts to deliver talk and have interactions. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To encourage the staff to update skills by fellowships etc. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To improve % of faculty with Ph.DGuideship. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 7. | Infrastructure and Equipment | |||
| To establish full fledgedTransplantation Center with state of art equipment and services. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To establish eco-friendly clean environment with excellent water and greenenergy management. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To Effectively implement Information Management System (IMS) for governance and Learning Management System (LMS) for teaching learning as well as HIMS at teaching hospital | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To equip the R & D laboratory with sophisticated equipment and Modern Technology | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To develop robotic and AI based learning laboratories in medical and surgical practice. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To upgrade the existing radiology and imaging equipment such as CT Scan, MRI, IITV, Mammography and other scanning equipment and to introduced PET Scan. | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| To introduce robotic surgical procedures at our Modular OT complex. | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| 8. | Institutional Social Responsibility/ Service to Community | |||
| To establish drug information center in accordance with Pharmco Vigilance center. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To increase health careservices and awareness in the rural and urban areas by conducting free health camps. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To develop e-content, videos of subject related and upload them in YouTube, face book and other social media. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To establish patient counselling desk | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| To adopt more villages apart from the existing villages to render free health care services and awareness regarding health and hygiene. | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| To conduct more free medical camps at rural villages and treat the needy patients. | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 9. | Alumni | |||
| To strengthen alumni association for placement, training, mentoring, financial and non-financial contribution for the welfare of needy students, society and institute | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |