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Students Welfare Cells


The student’s extra-curricular and co-curricular activities form a very important supportive framework in shaping a student’s career. Considering the entire medical as well as any other professional course, a lot of commitment, dedication along with a receptive and active mindset is needed. For this, we need tangible and rational student curricular which would enhance and enrich an overall student’s productivity and professional outcome.

The extra-curricular as well as the co-curricular activities can be chalked out and planned. However, we leave it to the student to opt for a suitable activity, a hobby, to come up with the best of their alternative and tangential creativity to showcase it to the world.

Activities of the extra and co-curricular sort can be planned by making concepts of the student club. The student clubs are of various genres and the students join these clubs without any concept of selection or forced participation. Rather the students are well aware of the genres and they join them depending on their interests and hobbies so that they can make the best use of the club, add more ideas into it and weave out a new concept for that club.

We, at DMIMS University, ask for voluntary participation from students and their commitment. The students come forth with their individual interests in various genres and express their willingness to share long term responsibility of that particular club, sort of ownership as well as mentorship to the newly interested students from the upcoming professional years.

Organogram of student extra and co-curricular activities:



Student Guidance Clinic 











Prologue:

Education is a process of learning and transformation of a student. DMIMS is always dedicated to the holistic development of the learner. The internal and external challenges of our younger generation are to be resolved in order to empower them properly. Many times it is observed that they are under tremendous pressure that stems from various aspects like expectations about excelling academically, adjusting with the change in environment, family pressure, family problems, striking a balance between academics, extra-curricular activities, relationship issues, conflict in the values of the society at large and sometimes, psychological dysfunctioning. After recognizing the need of the time for providing support and guidance to students of DMIMS, students guidance clinic, a psychological counseling unit is established.

Aims & Objectives:
  • To help students gain an insight into the origins and development of emotional difficulties, leading to an increased capacity to take rational control over feelings and actions.
  • To alter maladjusted behaviour.
  • To assist students to move in the direction of fulfilling their potential, or achieve an integration of conflicting elements within themselves.
  • To provide students with the skills, awareness and knowledge, which will enable them to confront social inadequacy.
Committee:

The Student Guidance Clinic runs on all working days throughout notified time. The day-to-day work is carried out by the psychologists under supervision of the co-ordinator. However, Advisory Committee is in place, presently under the chairmanship of Dr. S.S. Patel, Chief Co-coordinator, DMIMS.


Sr.No. Name Designation Post Held
1. Dr. S. S. Patel Chief Co-ordinator, DMIMS (Deemed to be University) Chairman
2. Dr. Sourya Acharya Prof. & Head, Medicine, JNMC Director, Student Welfare cell
3. Dr. Abhay Mudey Dean, Faculty of Medicine Member
4. Dr. Sudhindra Baliga Dean, Faculty of Dentistry Member
5. Dr. Vaishali V. Kuchewar Dean, Faculty of Ayurveda Member
6. Dr. Rakesh Kumar Sinha Principal, Faculty of Physiotherapy Member
7. Dr. Seema Singh Principal, Faculty of Nursing Member
8. Dr. Sagar B. Wankhede Principal, DMCOP, Wardha Member
9. Mrs. Indu Alwadkar Principal, FNTCN, ANM & GNM School Member
10. Dr. Alka Rawekar Professor, Physiotherapy, JNMC Member
11. Mrs. Rupali Sarode Students Counsellor Secretary
12. Dr. Mrs. D. A. Biswas Prof, Physiology Faculty of Medicine Special Invitee

The Student Guidance Clinic runs on all working days throughout notified time. The day-to-day work is carried out by the psychologists under supervision of the co-ordinator. However, Advisory Committee is in place, presently under the chairmanship of Dr. S.S. Patel, Chief co-coordinator, DMIMS

FACULTY :
Sr.No. Name Designation
1. Dr. D. A. Biswas Invited Faculty
2. Mrs. Rupali Sarode : Clinical psychologist Regular Faculty
3. Ms Komal Kubade : Counseling Psychologist Regular Faculty
Arena Of Guidance & Counseling :

The range of problems addressed includes academic, adjustment issues, relationship issues, personal and emotional issues. The purpose of guidance and counseling is that students can freely and confidentially express their academic, emotional and personal pressures and concerns to a professional who can help them effectively. The major objective of the counseling centre is to facilitate academic, emotional, social and cognitive development of the students hence to empower them in their learning and personal development.

ACADEMIC COUNSELING :
Many students find the demands of coursework to be overwhelming or need guidance on a specific area related to their studies. Students who meet with an academic counsellor learn concrete tools and strategies to deal with these struggles.
For example :

  • Semester withdrawal requests
  • Poor grades
  • Exam stress /Test anxiety
  • Learning difficulties
  • Dissertation support
  • Study skills
  • Academic Suspension
  • Yeardown and backlog
  • Study habits
  • Time management

PERSONAL / SOCIAL COUNSELING :
Personal counseling deals with emotional distress and behavioural difficulties, which arise when individuals struggle to deal with developmental stages and tasks. Any aspect of development can be turned into an adjustment problem, and it is inevitable that everyone encounters, at some time, exceptional difficulty in meeting an ordinary challenge.
For example :

  • Anxiety over a career decision
  • Lingering anger over an interpersonal conflict
  • Insecurities about getting older
  • Depressive feelings when bored with work
  • Excessive guilt about a serious mistake
  • A lack of assertion and confidence
  • Grief over the loss of a loved one
  • Disillusionment and loneliness after parents' divorce
  • Facilitate students' total development (self-esteem, sense of purpose, problem-solving abilities, spirituality)
  • Facilitate positive communication between students, teachers, and parents
  • Provide crisis intervention as needed
Dr. Sourya Acharya
Director, Student Welfare


Dr. Rupali Sarode 
Incharge, SGC