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Government Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine is one of the oldest rehabilitation centers in India . This is the second institute in India which was started in the year 1959, after the King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. It is one of the Institute of Madras Medical College it found its current own place away from Madras Medical College at Ashok Nagar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The institute includes a hospital, ''college of Physiotherapy'', ''School of Orthotics and Prosthetics'' and ''Artificial Limb center''. GIRM was a Regional Rehabilitation and Training Center under Ministry of Health, India. ==College of Physiotherapy== The School of Physiotherapy was kick started by Prof. Vittal rao who was trained in England. The program in Physiotherapy started as one year training, where the nurses were recruited to pursue Physical Therapy. Later it was upgraded as two and half year Diploma program. In 1981 it was further upgraded as degree program of three and a half years. Ultimately, it attained its current four and half years curriculum in the year 1998. College of Physiotherapy, Chennai was affiliated to the University of Madras until early 90s later to The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University till date. This college admits 25 students every year, graduating them in Bachelor of Physiotherapy after four and half years duration. The students are admitted through open-window counselling by Selection Committee, Directorate of Medical Education. The college of physiotherapy has a Students Association which is active from the year 1990. The administrative body of the association constitutes a team of seven members headed by the president, a general secretary and other office bearers. The association has organised several conferences and CMEs. ''Physiofest'' is the College's biggest event. Till now, the college association has organized five Physiofest from its inception from 1993, the latest of which held in the year 2006. The students graduated from this institute have continued their education which includes Masters, Phd, and post doc in several international universities. Some of them are reputed authors in several international journals. In 14 December 2013 the college had established its Alumni Association and celebrated it as Alumni Foundation Day(AFD) in a grand manner by gathering more than 250 old students at a time. AFD was sumptuously organised by Alumni working committee and Student Alumni coordinators. The college of Physiotherapy has an active Rotaract Club that is part of RI Dist 3230. The Rotaract club of GCP has organized several projects under various avenues like community service, club service, International service, pulse-polio immunization and vocational service. ''Karuna Vidya'' is one of the on-going projects of the club organized in association with the parent club where Rotaractors and volunteers help visually challenged individuals in their academics. Some of the biggest events of the club include ''Dreamz Unlimited I'', ''Dreamz Unlimited II'' & ''Village''. Dreamz Unlimited season I was a one day sports event for the specially challenged from various homes in Chennai. Dreamz Unlimited season II was a mass 3-dose Hepatitis-B Immunization programme for about 1000 orphans in the homes in and around Chennai. Village was the project where the club adapted a village near Singaperumal Koil and helped in the development of the village. Rotaract Club of Government College of Physiotherapy have emerged Victorious in launching the project THALAIMURAI Completing about 56 projects in 8 hours on 18 March 2012..It received tremendous healthy responses from the Public for its reasonable objectives.It was held within the premises of Government College of Physiotherapy.K.K.Nagar. It won the best outstanding community service award from RI Dist 3230 for the year 2011-2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Government Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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