Facilitating Collaborations to make Global healthcare a living reality

Parul University has been collaborating with distinct medical institutions and associations worldwide

Working towards promoting global healthcare, as a way of ensuring
sustainability within the medical sector, Vadodara based Parul University has
been collaborating with distinct medical institutions and associations
worldwide. 

Through its multi-specialty learning hospital, Parul Sevashram Hospital,
the University has been engaging in a series of international medical
initiatives, facilitating students and medical practitioners and providing
platforms for both coming into the country and travelling abroad. 

Under such a program, Dr Rachel Weberman, a postgraduate paediatrics
medicine student from University of Illinois in Chicago, USA, visited India,
with her posting under the Parul University’s Medical Institute and Hospital.
The two week program served a dual  role by impacting both the medical
academics and community healthcare.

The avenues for this program were made possible through an MoU signed
between Parul University and the Indian American Medical Association earlier
last year. This MoU has been vital in fostering cordial medical relations
between India and the USA, with medical students and doctors from India’s Parul
University and America’s Illinois University, engaging in exchange programs on
various capacities. 

These institutions have been constantly engaged in organising research
programs, practical academic programs and medical awareness initiatives for
medical students, lecturers and doctors who are committed and dedicated to make
global healthcare a living reality.

During her stay, Dr Weberman, had her posting at the University’s
medical college and hospital in the department of paediatrics, where she worked
on various medical cases along with the senior doctors of Parul Sevashram
Hospital. She took an active study in the various dimensions of diseases in
India, and the strategic ways in-which the government was working towards its
treatment and eradication. As a way of sharing with the local students, the
unique elements of the American healthcare system, Dr Rachel, went on to
conduct a series of lectures for the undergraduate students of Parul
University. 

“I am grateful to be in India, being a new environment I have learnt
some of the most unique forms of practical healthcare and working under the
mentorship of the doctors at Parul Sevashram Hospital has also given me
effective insights into healthcare for society.” Said Dr Rachel Weberman.

She also took an active part during a hands only CPR session, where
several healthcare workers from Waghodia Taluka, were given essential training
in the art of self help in healthcare. Such community programs, go a long way
in empowering the local communities and villages, to urgently attend to the
medical needs of their fellow society members in the case of any medical
emergency. 

“Many more of such joint exchanges under this collaboration are planned
in future, which will not only focus on academics but both the organisations
will also continue working towards joint research projects, especially in areas
like Cardiac arrest and Perinatal Depression,” Said the University’s Medical
Director, Dr Geetika M Patel.