Role Overview

The Associate Professor of General Surgery is a senior academic-clinical faculty position responsible for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, supervised surgical training, patient care, assessment, research, and departmental service. The role reports to the Head of Department or Professor and works across classrooms, bedside clinics, outpatient and inpatient services, emergency duty, and operation-theatre schedules. This is an on-site appointment in Gangtok, Sikkim. The appointee will strengthen learner competence, safe surgical practice, clinical governance, and patient satisfaction through disciplined teaching and continuous improvement. The employer is a confidential tertiary teaching hospital integrating patient care, education, clinical training, and research.

Key Responsibilities
- Deliver structured lectures, tutorials, demonstrations, and clinical classes for MBBS students in alignment with the approved curriculum.
- Conduct postgraduate seminars, case discussions, journal clubs, clinical meetings, and bedside teaching for General Surgery trainees.




- Mentor interns, residents, and postgraduate students in clinical reasoning, procedural competence, professional conduct, documentation, and patient communication.
- Plan and implement competency-based teaching, formative feedback, workplace-based assessment, and remedial support for learners requiring improvement.
- Serve as an internal or external examiner when appointed and contribute to fair, confidential, and evidence-based undergraduate and postgraduate assessment.
- Attend scheduled outpatient clinics, evaluate recent and follow-up patients, establish management plans, and maintain timely clinical records.
- Manage inpatients admitted under the assigned unit and respond appropriately to interdepartmental referrals requiring surgical evaluation.
- Provide emergency surgical assessment and treatment during allocated on-call duties, escalating complex cases through established clinical pathw

📌 Associate Professor (Gangtok)
🏢 Manav Sansadhan Vikas Salaahkar
📍 Gangtok