Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on Monday was conferred an Award of Excellence in teaching by the National Board of Examinations (NBE) for successfully running the largest postgraduate teaching programme in 38 specialities for almost three decades with more than 80 per cent passing rate of (Diplomate of National Board) DNB trainees. The awards were given out during the 18th convocation of the NBE.
Besides, Dr Anupam Sachdeva, Chairman (Academics) of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital received an Excellence Award for being a distinguished DNB teacher. Three of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital’s DNB students, Dr G Mahendran from Surgical Gastroenterology, Dr Mrinal Pahwa from Urology and Dr Prachi Soparkar from Anaesthesiology, were also awarded DNB gold medals.
“We at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital give lot of importance to teaching, academics and research. The hospital runs India’s largest post-graduate teaching programme. We are very pleased to receive this recognition,” stated Dr DS Rana, Chairman (Board of Management) and Department of Nephrology.Professor K Srinath Reddy, president of National Board of Examinations in his address asserted that NBE is continually endeavouring to contribute to the health system through launch of innovative programs such as DNB Emergency Medicine, (Fellow of National Board) FNB in Sports Medicine and many others.