CME INDIA Presentation by ⚜ Dr. M. Gowri Sankar, MD, Senior Assistant Professor, Dept. of General Medicine, Government Medical College and ESI Hospital, Coimbatore.
Today’s History Feature:
Prof. Dr. Inderbir Singh
🇮🇳 The Pride of India 🇮🇳
(Aug 29, 1929 – Mar 3, 2014)
💠Indian Anatomist
His contributions…
🔹Inderbir was born in a small town in Burma. He studied medicine at Government Medical College, Amritsar in 1952. Then he completed his Master degree from Government Medical College, Patiala in 1959 and did his PhD in 1965.
🔹He was also granted World Health Organization (WHO) Fellowship at the University of Cambridge in 1961.
🔹After completion of his studies, he joined as an Assistant Professor at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences at Rohtak, Haryana in 1963 and was later promoted as a Professor of Anatomy at 1970. There he made his significant contributions in the field of Anatomy.
🔹In 1974, he published his first book on Human Embryology which earned him great success. Subsequently, he published many text books covering Gross Anatomy, Histology, Osteology and Neuroanatomy.
🔹Also, he had a great passion for teaching. He used to teach the anatomy by using different colours of chalks in blackboard. Further, he developed different staining methods in the field of histology, which are being widely used now-a-days.
🔹Apart from that, he made a creditable contribution in establishing Anatomy Museum in medical colleges at Amritsar, Patiala and Rohtak.
🔹His extraordinary contribution to medical education earned him many awards. Moreover, he was the first anatomist who received the Professor Indarjit Dewan Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 at PGI Chandigarh.
🔹Besides, Dr. Inderbir was interested in painting and music. Also, he was skillful in accessing computer during his period. This enabled him to upgrade the academic and research fields from paper & pen to the digital world.
🔹Eventually, Dr. Inderbir Singh was recognized as a legendary anatomist, a prolific writer and a greatest teacher of his time. His books continue to guide UG & PG medical students and teachers even today.
A Day to Commemorate…
A Doyen of Anatomy
Prof. Dr. Inderbir Singh 🙏🏼
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I had the greatest fortune to have studied under him.He was so soft spoken, a thorough gentleman and a disciplinarian. He would rebuke students like me and exhort us to better ourselves.will always remember him with fondness. A giant among teachers.
We were in Coimbatore Medical College blessed to have prof Dr. Ponnusamy & Dr Annamalai in Anatomy Department. Dr ponnusamy will enter in to the lecture hall with handful of colour chalk pieces In the black board the picture of the Arteries and veins in muscular field will look like real classical painting Great doctors sent by God ! Thank you Dr !
Dr Inderbir Singh was a great teacher, guide, writer philosopher and a great human being. Blessed to be his student. May God provide peace and tranquility to the departed soul.
I’m fortunate that I was his student at Medical College Rohtak and his methods of teaching were simple and illustrative,I pay my respects, regards and homage to this doyen of Human Anatomy
Great soul 🙏🏽🙏🏽🇮🇳🇮🇳
I am fortunate enough to be taught by Legendary Teacher like Prof Inderbeer singh, Great Soul 💐💐
I too was his student in 1963 as 1st batch of PGI Rohtak .Salute to his teaching by Dr Surjit Singh Toor (rtd) Civil Surgeon .🙏🙏
Undoubtedly the great teacher and great human being… fortunate to have been his student at PGI Rohtak.. feel proud to have and read his first published book on human embryology.. .. you don’t get teacher like him so often….a great soul and teacher par excellence…🙏🙏💐
I’m fortunate that I was his student at Medical College Rohtak and his methods of teaching were simple and illustrative,I pay my respects, regards and homage to this doyen of Human Anatomy
Fortunate to be his student.
We are fortunate to have been taught and guided by one of the greatest teacher of anatomy. He commanded a huge respect and an aura would surround him whenever he used to walk through the corridors of the department. People like him would not walk any more on this planet in the near future.
He was an iconic figure in the field of anatomy. He was a great teacher and made every effort to simplify a difficult subject as anatomy especially when we were new to medical field. Museum of Neuro-anatomy is one such example that proved very helpful during Neurology rotations. His calm, soft-spoken and always helpful personality will always remain alive in our hearts.
Not only great teacher but an excellent human being. Fortunate to be his student.
Feel very proud to be one of the students of a legendary teacher like him.
Adorable human being .
My sincere salutes to him .
Dr A K AGGARWAL
Hats off to such a legendary teacher in anatomy being his student in 1967 first prof. Very gentle soft spoken kind hearted never ever lost his temper & doyen of Anatomy. His style of teaching was like reading a poetry with simple way of explaining. Our batch of 1967 is fortunate to be taught by Dr Inderjeet Dewan & Dr Inderbir Singh the legends of their time. We have been indebted for the whole life because of their strict discipline & extraordinary human being dedicated to the subject of anatomy. My salute to both revered professors of anatomy. God bless their souls in heaven.
I am Dr Subhash Chander mittal MBBS MD medicine from PGIMS rohtak 1968 Batch l am fortunate enough to student of Dr inder jit Singh and Dr inder Bir Singh the great learned teachers of Anatomy of international fame May God grant peace to the departed Souls Dr Subhash Chander mittal
Unforgettable human being, a great teacher, guide, writer, philosopher with innumerable positive qualities- all in one person- a rarity. First meeting with him confirmed my choice of Anatomy as my carrier. Fortunate to be his first PG at PGIMS with opportunity to learn and work as colleague for 17 years. His great interest in drawing and painting resulted in excellent Anatomy museums and his clear concepts with command on language simplified Anatomy for students, especially embryology in the form of his books.
With all my respect for him, pray to God to bless his pious soul.
My father Dr. Vijay Kalra (MBBS 1968) told me so many stories growing up of Prof. Inder Jit Dewan and Prof. Inder Bir Singh that I find them inspiring. One of them trained with Prof. Boyd (embroyologist) and did thesis on rotation of gut. I read his books when doing MBBS at MAMC 1997 admission batch and then ended up doing MPH at Harvard and PhD at Johns Hopkins partly through the inspiring stores. It was only much later when I was in US I learned one of my teachers Prof. Richa Dewan was niece of Prof. Dewan and my father had also met her father. I wished I knew that sooner as she was tough and my life would have been easy with that connection. One of the books that my father mentioned was Ranson and Clark (Sir Le gros) that they used to read etc. It was only later when I was studying molecular biology I learned Sydney brenner trained with him. I see one of my father’s friend and classfellow Dr. MIttal’s comments above. I would add because of this connection I was an early adopter of his books while my peers were reading a popular anatomy book which had very poor illustrations and not a good prose. It was also because of this inspiration I was able to commit myself to read a large part of Gray’s anatomy 38/e and would saw the names of these two doyens probably 50 times in the book in text and references including the famous squatting fossa and ageing/sexing of clavicles/sternums and other bones and rotation of gut during development. It must have been quiet a time then!
I am Dr SatishJindal now settled in Kaithal Haryana
I have the privilege to have studied Anatomy under two great legends
Drinderjit Dewan
Dr Inderbir Singh in the yr 1966-67 at medical college Rohtak in combined Panjab(Panjab university)
I pay my deepest homage to the great sons in Anatomy Dr sati
One of the best teachers of Medical College, Rohtak. Indeed, very fortunate to study Anatomy from him and his colleagues of the department who all were very hardworking teachers to ingrain in us the right concepts of Anatomy. Prof Usha Dhull has touched all his great qualities. God bless his noble soul.
Prof. (Dr) Inderbir Singh was a great human being despite an ideal teacher.He was soft spoken. He learned Computer very early. He created a very beautiful museum in Anatomy. I was elected Class Representative in 1970 and had to coordinate many times for students activities. Even after passing First Prof. I remained in touch with him for guidance on personal matters. He was my ideal teacher. A great soul.
Prof I B Singh was our next door neighbour while we stayed in the 6-J type houses in the Medical College Campus. It was he who motivated my father to write a textbook of Biochemistry. He used to spend hours making diagrams for that book. We can never thank him enough for the selfless help he rendered. He was a real great human being.
I am very fortunate to have studied Anatomy from the most soft spoken teacher at medical college Rohtak in 1966–67 (Panjab university) Dr.Indervir singh ji. And also from Dr. Inderjit ji Diwan who was also dedicated to his work but hard task master.God bless his soul eternal peace
He was thorough gentle man besides being a great teacher., never had angry mood. God give him peace