BKL Walawalkar Rural Medical College

The B.K.L Walawalkar Rural Medical college has a unitary campus for hospital and college. In order to promote academics and research it has:

B.K.L. Walawalkar Rural Medical College has a Skills Laboratory where students can practice and improve skills pre-specified in the curriculum. The purpose of the skills laboratory is to provide a safe and non-threatening environment for students to learn, practice and be observed performing skills in a simulated environment thus mitigating the risks involved in direct patient exposure without adequate preparation and supervision. The skills laboratory attempts to recreate the clinical environment and tasks which future health care workers have to perform with various levels of complexity and fidelity.

The skills laboratory covers total area of 879 Sq.M. and has following facilities –

i) 04 rooms for examination of patients or standardized/ simulated patients ii) It has 757 medical and surgical allied skill lab and additional 122 Sq.M. cadaveric skill lab facility. iii) It has medical surgical allied sections with demonstration rooms, debriefing rooms and computer assisted live streaming facility iv) Area for review or debriefing area v) Rooms for faculty coordinator and support staff vi) Adequate space for storage of mannequins and/or other equipment vii) Facility for video recording and review of the interaction for teaching communication skills viii) Stations for practicing skills individually or in groups. ix) Trainers or mannequins required to achieve skills outlined in the competency based undergraduate curriculum document are available. x) A dedicated technical officer and adequate support staff is available round the clock. xi) The teaching areas of the skills lab have provision for audio-visual and internet facilities and are enabled for e-learning

Having spacious reading rooms which are well lighted and ventilated and have a sitting capacity of 200 students. Currently library has more than 8600 books and 60 National and International Journals are subscribed annually. The central library has a Digital Library having 25 P.C. with internet connectivity. It has facility for online M.U.H.S digital library access which has more than 13,000 journals and 1300 books available through internet. The library also has xerox and photo copy facility.

The Medical College has 3 air-conditioned Gallery type lecture halls with audio-visual aids to accommodate 120 students and 1 Gallary type lecture hall in hospital with audio-visual aids to accommodate 150 students.

The medical college has separate, well ventilated examination hall with all amenities to accommodate 250 students.

A state of art central clinical laboratory is available with well equipped and sophisticated instruments like fully automated chemistry analyzer, electrolyte analyzer, chemi-immunolescence facilities etc.