Ghanashyam Vaidya

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Ghanashyam Vaidya (born : 1.11.1958, Ghataprabha ) is a general and laparoscopic surgeon working at [http://khi-india.org Karnatak Health Institute [http://khi-india.org Karnataka Health Institute] ] ] , Ghataprabha, Dist:Belgaum, Karnataka, India.

The Karnatak Health Institute is a rural charitable institute is based on the concept of altruistic work with minimal wage for each employee. Visitors and patients to this remarkable institute have been amazed that such a philosophy still works in today's capitalistic world. It has a 350 bedded well equipped hospital with a multitude of social activities in the surrounding villages.

Dr. Ghanashyam Vaidya has dedicated his life to this institution, and works in the capacity of Joint Chief Medical officer and Governing council member of the institute. His professional interests are in endoscopic surgeries - gastroscopies, bronchoscopies, laparoscopic surgeries, TUR-P and others in a truly generalist practice. He has conducted over 25,000 surgeries spanning a career of 24 years.

He has made a significant contribution the medical education through both the traditional and novel methods of teaching. In the year immediately after qualifying, he pioneered the concept of audio learning in India - with his General Surgery Cassette clinics in early 1980s. These are a legend amongst medical students in India. These audio cassettes (now available as CD/DVD/MP3) teach the systematic and exhaustive surgical case history taking and examination to every student in a very lucid manner. As these became very popular through a word of mouth, they were formally published and are available at a very low cost. They have been expanded to include cases in Internal Medicine, Obstretics, ECG reading and listening (with excellent quality heart sounds and murmers), Radiology, and Operative surgery. He has also produced encyclopedic DVDs on Operative Surgery for undergraduates, Clinical Examination in Surgery, "The Art of Bandaging and GPClinics" - a case collection for General Practitioners., "Bhalani Medical Book" Publishing House, Mumbai, India.] .He conducted a Video Quiz for Doctors, a first of its kind on National TV (DD2) for 2 yrs / 100 episodes in the programme Medivision. He has pioneered the concept that educational videos when well produced, can be better than books.

He is also a medical cartoonist and his cartoons on the Life in a Medical College can be viewed at his Cartoon site [http://www.geocities.com/gmvtoons1/Dreams01.html Cartoon site] ] .

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