Latest Technologies at SIMATS to facilitate Teaching- Learning Process Compliance with Regulatory Bodies
The college is constantly updating infrastructure to expose the undergraduate and postgraduate students to the latest technologies available across specialities. The college is equipped with fully air conditioned classrooms, laboratories and patient clinics.
Academic infrastructure:
With the advent of the digital era, we utilise the completely digital way of learning with the IPad based hospital information system. This digitisation also contributes to the greener environment by evading the need for paper based documentation. We have more than 300 lecture/seminar halls that are furnished with 100% ICT smart boards and touch on cloud systems. The students are provided access to the lecture content and other learning materials through inhouse cloud services. These provide the most advanced way of digital learning from anywhere anytime. Preclinical learning for students goes a class apart with the medical and dental simulators for various clinical scenarios. A dedicated skills lab in our medical college campus contains a wide array of simulators which includes Advanced Life Support mannequin, Paediatric MegaCode Simulator paired with the SimPad System, Birth Simulators, Intraosseous Trainer, Airway Management Trainers and so on. Our dental college simulation lab is equipped with VIRSA studio(Virtual Reality and Simulation Academy). This Virt EASY- VR Simulation Kiosk has India’s only Dental VR unit that helps students to train in all dental treatment procedures during their preclinical sessions. Law institute has Hybrid learning spaces called Claff Rooms, a combination of Class room with an exclusive inbuilt staff centre. Also, the MOOT court hall which spans over 1200 sq ft, with the audiovisual facilities, presentation equipment, judge desks and witness podiums making it more lively. Workstations are available across all departments with more than 2000 computers mostly of high configuration to serve the digital platform of learning. We have nearly 54 libraries with 100% vital books,11 auditoriums, 226 laboratories with a high speed WIFI connectivity throughout the campus.
Clinical infrastructure:
Saveetha medical college is equipped with more than 1250+ hospital beds across all the specialities with extensive life saving measures including the Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation(ECMO) Maquet Quadrox- PLS(Permanent life system). Intensive care units hold more than 100 beds and the pediatric ICU has around 25 beds. Entire spectrum of non-invasive imaging for interventional diagnostic and therapeutic strategies are available including 5 CT centres with Philips Ingenuity 128 slice scanner and Siemens Multi-slice spiral whole body CT scanner with advanced 3D post processing tools capable of performing all the body images, High resolution MRI-Philips- Multiva 1.5 Tesla Magnetic resonance Imaging with fully integrated Picture Archiving and Communications Systems) and Digital CBCTs. Comprehensive lactation management centre/Human Milk Bank has been started with an initiative to provide safe donor human milk for babies in need. The comprehensive clinic also known as the combo clinic is the brainchild of Saveetha dental college. A student is taught and trained to treat a patient in a holistic and compendious manner. There are 550 imported electronic dental chairs which far exceeds the DCI requirement of 332 and caters to an outpatient strength of an average of 2000- 2500 patients on a daily basis. Dental college has an exclusive maxillofacial centre with 6 operating rooms with advanced facilities like paediatric ventilators, Carl Zeiss Operating microscopes, Microtomes and microscope for frozen sections for histological identifications. In collaboration with the RAI CBCC, we have an oral cancer research centre equipped with an exclusive linear accelerator. It also has a 60 bedded inpatient facility, exclusive paediatric wards, well equipped 5 bedded intensive care facility and a studio room for students to view live streamed surgeries. Specialized equipment like 21 Carl Zeiss OPMI PICO Microscopes for endodontic procedures, ‘Waterlase’ all tissue laser, ‘Biolase’ soft tissue laser and Acteons Servotome Electrosurgical unit for specialized periodontal procedures, T-scan for occlusal calibration, Nitrous oxide-Oxygen conscious sedation unit and paediatric bench with restraints for paediatric patients, Air conditioned Mobile Dental unit with 2 chairs for community services etc. adorn the respective departments. Digitized 3D smile design studios with Specialized software like Geomagic , Dolphin-3D for Virtual surgical planning, 3 shape PRIME Software suit and EXOCAD software for diagnosis, planning of treatment, designing and fabrication of appliances, orthodontic clear aligners. Separate special care clinic equipped with special designed equipment to cater to patients with special needs and geriatric patients. Facial Cosmetology clinic Unit for sophisticated facial cosmetic procedures, Comprehensive Saveetha Oral Cancer centre for surgical, medical and radiation oncology. Exclusive Cleft and Cranio-facial centre for patients with craniofacial deformities. Exclusive implantology department with a separate surgical unit and prosthetic unit equipped with various implant systems. The continuous incorporation of various Advanced technological equipment for patient care and student education for the core of our teaching process. Dynamic navigation system, Cube-piezoelectric unit, DMLS Laser printer for 3D printing Titanium, CubeX Trio Printer to print artificial bone substitutes, Siemens Cerec CAD CAM Machine, Imes-icore CAD-CAM machine, Vacuum casting machine to cast 3d printed resin based high precision implant frameworks, Intraoral and model scanners and 3D printers for printing models, Stents, Guides, appliances etc are some of the latest equipment made available for enhanced patient care. Saveetha Prime is the latest feather to be added on the cap of Saveetha Dental College and is fondly referred to as Environmental Dentistry. The calm and soothing ambience designed was aimed at dispelling Dento-phobia or fear of Dentist.
Research facilities:
Research forms a major part of student education and is encouraged making available research facilities
Animal House, Biomaterial research Unit and Laboratory Animal centre ”BRULAC” for animal testing procedures.
Inhouse material science testing centre with Instron Ez Pulse dynamic digital machine, Mechatronics chewing simulator, toothbrush wear simulator, Scanning electron microscope with 0.5 nano-meter resolution, Liquid analysis Elico UV Vis-spectrophotometer, photo calorimeter, Hardness Tester, Infrared spectroscopy etc.
Blue lab for stem cell research, molecular, biochemical, Genetics and RNA biology
Pink Lab for immunohistochemistry. Several research projects with grants received from governmental and non governmental organizations are in progress.