JSS Medical College Placement Details

Anjana Reddy

Library:

The 'Library and Information centre' in the J.S.S Medical College was established in the year 1984-85 with a sole purpose to quench the thirst of knowledge and to fulfill the concerned needs of both the faculty and the students.

The central library is located in the first floor of the main building, which is spread in an area of 3206 Sq Mtrs. This building is divided into different sections like Reference Section, Periodicals, Computer, Audio-visual Section and General Reading Room.

Sports:

The college has many facilities like enough space for playing the games viz., cricket, football, table tennis, volley ball, hockey badminton and in addition to it athletics and indoor games are also availble. A permanent sports ground on par with National standards is also there in the campus along with a well equipped gymnasium.

Bank:

A branch of State Bank of Mysore at S.S.Nagara, Mysore shares its banking services with the college, being just attached to the college building. Both the Post Office (Sub Branch) and the Telegraph Offices are in the campus.

Academic Society:

The college has an academic society. All the teaching staff, Post Graduate students and interns are the members of this society. The society conducts academic meetings every fortnight where high standard academic discussions take place and interesting clinical materials are discussed.

Ethical Committee:

This committee was constituted in September 1994 as per the guidelines of ICMR (an apex and statutory body of clinical research in India). This committee guides investigations / researchers in the ethical aspects of the research programmes. Funds by the Governmental agencies and publications in professional journals necessitates the project to get an approval from this committee.

Co-operative Society:

The co-operative society is also a part of the college, which supplies the needs of the students with their essential daily requirements and other requirements such as text books, note books, papers, surgical items, etc. The society works on 'no profit - no loss' basis.

Body Donation - JSS Body Donation Association:

This association was established in June 1996. The main purpose of this association is to receive the donor's bodies for corneal transplantation to the blind, research purposes, study of organs by the undergraduate, post-graduate and research students. The diagnostic procedures, new surgical technics can be studied using these bodies.

Humar Cytogenetic Laboratory:

The recently established lab is well equipped and helps largely in analyzing chromosome number abnormalities in the cells. The birth defects can be detected well in advance helping in diagnosing the infertile couple. The counseling provided in right time for the suffering family members helps them in making their life style better and worth living.