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THE MISSION AND GOALS 

The Group will:

  • Meet regularly to exchange of ideas and information regarding the teaching of the art and science of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.
  • Promote the dissemination of information and academic skills to future physicians who will be practicing this art and science.
  • Encourage exchanges of information with other fields of medicine.
  • Benefit the field of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, its practitioners, academicians, patients, and general public health and welfare through its activities.
  • Interact with the Indian Physiatrists working outside India to get their help in promoting the specialty.
  • To interact with international academic physiatrists to organize workshops for Physiatric procedures.

Our Goals

Academic Recognition

Academic PM&R to be recognized as an integral component of academic medicine.

1. Increase effectiveness of APGI and members’ influence in academic medicine.

2. Enhance academic clinical research

3 Increase awareness by encouraging academic departments to accept PM&R to a broad range of customers of academic PM&R.

4. Increase visibility and image of PM&R research with national agencies like ICMR and World Rehabilitation Research Organizations  

Academic Information

The Group will develop treatment/ practice guidelines for different conditions and

1. Do multicenter trials in national level, at the govt hospitals as well as in private hospitals and clinics

2. To disseminate information of the various proposals.

3 To function as an information research facilitator and guide.

4. Hands on workshops in different PMR procedures with local and international faculty whenever possible

 

 

 

 

 

News & Events

The last meeting was held on dec 2005 in Saveetha College of Physiotherapy hosted by Dr.Jai Shankar......more
The next meet will be in Chennai and will be hosted by Dr.Sunder.It will be held in April 23 2006.