Bhagyashree Sawardekar
Mumbai
Summary
A qualified pediatrician with five years of working experience in the field after postgraduation.
- Dedicated to providing the best quality of care with evidence-based medicine, which involves making medical decisions based on the best available research, clinical expertise, and patient values.
- Provide expert advice and care to children with complex and challenging diseases, and ensure effective implementation of gained medical knowledge in the treatment of patients.
- Believe in a multidisciplinary team approach by collaborating with various specialties to provide complete patient care.
- Maintaining a calm, collected, but expeditious approach while dealing with medical emergencies and stressful situations.
- Efficiently perform minor procedures, like intravenous cannulation, lumbar puncture, urinary catheterization, pleural tap, bone marrow biopsy, and umbilical catheterization.
- Strong emphasis on counselling patients with empathy and support, while confidently giving the required medical opinion, along with medicolegal documentation.
- Incorporating detailed examination and complete patient care in daily clinical practice, including well-child care visits, feeding guidance for children, monitoring growth and development, and immunization.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Assistant Professor
HBT trauma hospital
Mumbai
08.2022 - Current
- Managing a 15-bedded pediatric ward and a 15-bedded postnatal care unit with a team of 6 junior doctors.
- Evaluation and management of 20-30 patients daily attending outpatient services with common illnesses, such as respiratory, gastrointestinal, and urinary infections, febrile illnesses, seizure disorders, nutritional deficiencies, tuberculosis, and vaccination.
- Evaluation of newborns visiting OPD services after discharge from PNC, assessment of lactation and counseling, and teaching newborn care to mothers.
- Providing emergency management to patients attending the A&E services with conditions such as sepsis, septic shock, respiratory distress, asthma exacerbations, convulsions, meningitis, and collaborating with other departments for patient care.
- Promotion of exclusive breastfeeding practices by counseling mothers, as well as delivering talks to nursing staff and resident doctors.
- Participating in interdepartmental meetings to discuss issues faced in management and finding solutions for the same.
- Taking scheduled lectures and conducting practical examinations for undergraduate medical students.
- Regularizing and optimizing the utilization of pediatric ward services through routine checks on the practices and equipment, and strengthening the services provided to decrease the referrals to tertiary setups.
Assistant Professor
HBT medical college and R.N. Cooper hospital
Mumbai
04.2022 - 07.2022
- Complete evaluation of admitted patients and formulating treatment plan by guiding resident doctors and taking help from senior associate professors for difficult cases and treatment of illnesses like pneumonias, urinary tract infections, sepsis, cardiogenic and septic shock, pleural effusion, gastroenteritis, dengue, malaria, leptospirosis, meningitis, raised ICT, and pulmonary as well as extrapulmonary tuberculosis.
- Attending to pediatric patients, as well as newborns visiting outpatient services with common illnesses
- Bedside clinical teaching of postgraduate medical students, as well as lectures for undergraduate medical students, along with conducting examinations.
- Evaluation of patients attending the nutrition OPD and supervising the working of staff involved.
- Responsible for collaborating with various members to establish a nutrition rehabilitation centre, which is still in its early stages and troubleshooting technical problems encountered during the process.
House Officer
Khan Bahadur hospital, Kurla
Mumbai
11.2021 - 04.2022
- First responder to pediatric patients visiting the outpatient services, emergency services, and attending all deliveries, managing a 6-bedded NICU and pediatric ward.
- Taking detailed rounds and formulating treatment plan of admitted pediatric patients as well as newborns admitted in NICU and PNC and making treatment changes under the guidance of senior consultants, writing clinical notes and counselling patients.
- Managed various neonatal and pediatric emergencies emergencies, like pneumothorax, severe respiratory distress, apneas, and shock; managed patients requiring ventilatory and/or inotropic support.
- Worked with pediatric and adult COVID patients, working in accordance with COVID protocols laid down by the government.
Senior Resident
ESIC hospital
Mumbai
10.2020 - 10.2021
- Contributed to establishing exclusive breastfeeding as a standard practice in the PNC by taking lectures for obgyn, pediatricians as well as nursing staff. starting breastfeeding in delivery room itself and helping mothers in lactation.
- Involved in medical management of inpatients as well as outpatient as a part of team under the guidance of senior consultants.
- Worked as a first responder for pediatric and neonatal emergencies.
- Part of a team managing NICU, PICU, pediatric ward and PNC
Education
MRCPCH Theory Exams -
RCPCH
01-2023
MD Paediatrics -
Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College And Hosp
Mumbai01-2020
MBBS -
Grant Medical College And JJ Group of Hospitals
Mumbai01-2017
Certification
- Pediatric infection CPD by RCPCH(Imperial college, london) 15 april to 17 may 2024
- Neonatal resuscitation programme(NRP) by Indian Academy of Paediatrics 2024
- Pediatric advanced life support by AHA in 2019
- Embicon CME by Indian academy of Paediatrics- 2019
- DAFPAL CME by Indian academy of Paediatrics - 2019
- Basic workshop in research methodology - 2017
- Short term studentship(STS) by ICMR for 2 months - 2013
Languages
English
First Language
Hindi
Beginner
A1
Marathi
Beginner
A1
Timeline
Assistant Professor
HBT trauma hospital
08.2022 - Current
Assistant Professor
HBT medical college and R.N. Cooper hospital
04.2022 - 07.2022
House Officer
Khan Bahadur hospital, Kurla
11.2021 - 04.2022
Senior Resident
ESIC hospital
10.2020 - 10.2021
MRCPCH Theory Exams -
RCPCH
MD Paediatrics -
Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College And Hosp
MBBS -
Grant Medical College And JJ Group of Hospitals