Dear Friends,
I feel immense pleasure as Principal to welcome all of you to Dr. D.Y. Patil Homoeopathic Medical College and Research Centre, Pune. Our college is one of the premiers and reputed Homoeopathic Medical College in India. The institution was founded by Hon’ble Dr. P. D. Patil Sir, Hon’ble Chairman, Dr. D.Y.Patil Unitech Society in the year 2000. Hon’ble Dr. P.D. Patil Sir is a great philanthropist and visionary par excellence. Since then the institution has come a long way in adding new dimensions to the Homoeopathic Education in this country. The Institution is imparting 5½ year undergraduate BHMS course having intake capacity of 100 students per year and 3 years post graduate MD (Hom) course in 3 disciplines namely Organon of Medicine, Homoeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory having intake capacity of 6 students every year in each discipline. The college is affiliated to Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik.
Our mission statement is “Aude Sapere” meaning “Dare to be wise” which exhorts all Homoeopaths associated with the college to carry on the mission of curing the sick dedicatedly. The main Goals and Objectives of our institution are producing homoeopaths who consider the patients holistically and as an integral part of a family and community, to provide Homoeopathic medical education which aims at maintaining a balance between humanistic medicine and technology, to promote a holistic approach towards curative, preventive and rehabilitative aspects of homoeopathic medicine and to ensure quality, comprehensive, continuous and personalized care to patients. Homoeopathic medical education provided in this college also aims at balancing tertiary care hospital based and primary care community based education.
The college has its own homoeopathic hospital located in the same premises. The hospital which is registered with Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation has a well equipped OPD and IPD section including OT section, intensive care unit, labour room, pathology lab and radiology section. OPD section includes Medicine, Obstetrics / Gynecology and Pediatrics OPD as per norms and IPD section has Medicine (including Pediatrics); Surgery, Obstetrics / Gynaecology wards. Both acute and chronic patients are examined in the OPD and IPD. The students are exposed to a variety of cases of all systems like Respiratory System (Bronchial Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary diseases, allergic rhinitis etc), Musculoskeletal System (rheumatoid arthritis, Osteoarthritis, etc) Dermatological cases (Psoriasis, dermatitis, etc) Paediatrics cases (Tonsillitis, recurrent URTI, etc) Gastrointestinal system (Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Acid Peptic Disease, Gastritis, etc) & Geriatric cases (Depression, dementia, Benign Enlargement of Prostate, Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus, Osteoarthritis, Gout etc). The college conducts regular health check-up camps and medical camps in the OPD’s which has popularised Homoeopathy amongst the general population. The College Hospital set up is as per the norms laid down by the Central Council of Homoeopathy for providing clinical training and research facilities of the highest quality.
In the coming academic year, the students of our institution can also look forward to a wider range of opportunities to stretch themselves beyond the classroom through greater participation in the seminar, reorientation programmes, medical conferences etc. Our college has a team of competent, highly qualified, and experienced staff members, who are devoted to the progress and development of our Institute & Homoeopathy. The institution provides a world-class learning facility in a competitive and collaborative atmosphere to help the students to make a mark for themselves in the medical world. The institution grooms a new generation of professionals making them competent enough to face the world. Young doctors receive this message of compassionate care during their medical education here. Our caring approach to the students ensures to produce doctors with good human values, who have a systematic approach to the patients and are sensitive towards the problem faced by the patients.
I, as the Principal of this institution, welcome you all to join us in our vision to provide quality homoeopathic education and enable students to undertake responsibilities and cope with challenges, problems and opportunities in homoeopathy through active learning and continued education with competence and concern to ensure the practice of holistic health.