Fellow - Microbiology

**Clinical Microbiology Fellowship at Tata Medical Center, Kolkata
Conceptualized in the year 2004 as a philanthropic initiative for the Eastern and North-Eastern
parts of India and the neighboring countries, the Tata Medical Center (TMC) started operations in
Kolkata on May 16, 2011. The hospital is governed by a charitable trust - Tata Medical Centre Trust.
It is an integrated Oncology facility with well-trained professional staff and equipped with modern
facilities and the most contemporary medical equipment. The hospital was designed by Cannon
Design, a renowned architectural firm from North America. It is located on 13 acres of land at New
Town in Kolkata, West Bengal.

The hospital is an integrated Oncology facility with well-trained professional staff and equipped
with modern facilities and contemporary medical equipment. The Hospital, with a capacity of 437
beds, serves all sections of the society, with 75% of the infrastructure earmarked for subsidized
treatment for the underprivileged sections. It provides a wide spectrum of services from diagnosis
and therapy to rehabilitation and palliative support. The Institution’s objective is to excel in service,
education and research.

Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, has strived to be one of the leading cancer care and research
institutions in the country and has benefited West Bengal as well as the adjoining states and
neighboring countries.
TMC is also running many academic programmes and has entered into institutional collaborations
in education, research, and outreach programmes in the field of interdisciplinary medical, research
and technology.

**Clinical Microbiology
**Duration of fellowship: 2 years (may be extended by another year based on**
**performance); contract would be extended yearly based on performance**

**Fellowship salary: Rs. 80000/- per month plus Annual Performance Award**
**fellowship**

**Leaves and medical benefits: as a per institutional policies.**

**Job description for the post of Fellow in Clinical Microbiology**
The Department of Microbiology at the Tata Medical Centre, Kolkata is committed to
provide a timely, clinically relevant, and quality assured diagnostic test results in
Bacteriology, Virology, Mycology, Parasitology for in-patients, out-patients or other
external clients for the laboratory at an affordable price. The diagnostic facility in the
Microbiology laboratory would include state of the art equipments such as automated
blood culture (BacT/ALERT from bioMerieux), automated bacterial and yeast identification
and susceptibility system (Vitek2 from bioMerieux), automated serology system (Vitros
5600 and 7600 from Ortho Clinical Diagnostics), Real-time PCR systems (7500 from
Applied Biosystems, Rotorgene 5-plex) and 3500 Genetic Analyzer (from Applied

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Biosystems), Hybrid Capture Assay for molecular microbiology tests. The Microbiology
laboratory aims to provide an intellectually stimulating, safe, secure, educationally friendly
work environment to its students, staffs and scientific officers, and would concentrate on
continuous quality improvement, research and development. In contrast to other
Microbiology laboratories, this would be one of the few labs in the country that would be
providing a clinical microbiology and clinical virology service aimed towards infection
management, antibiotic, antifungal and antiviral stewardship, and infection control and
prevention activities. The laboratory and the hospital information services have been
computerized using software developed by the Tata Consultancy Services.

Mr. Suvasish Mukherjee, Head-Human Resources, Tata Medical Center, 14 MAR (EW), New Town,

For any informal queries about the position please contact Dr. Sanjay Bhattacharya -Consultant

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