Dr (Lt Col) Shivani Jain

Dr. Shivani Jain is an experienced Obstetrician & Gynaecologist with over twenty years of professional practice (including twelve years of practice as an Obstetrician & Gynaecologist specialist) in Indian Armed Forces hospitals across a multi-locational, multi-cultural environment with a large population spread. Dr. Shivani Jain Has provided services ranging from implementing first-contact care to delivering obstetrics and gynecology specialist care at secondary and tertiary-level hospitals.

Academically inclined, has served as Faculty in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India training undergraduate/ postgraduate medical students, nursing, and para-clinical staff.

The key interest lies in improving Women's Health and standard of Care through continuous self-improvement and adoption of safe clinical practices. Dr. Shivani Jain recently retired from the Indian Armed Forces on 2 Jul 2022.

Primary Focus Area

• Patient Safety/ Risk Management

• System-based clinical practice

• Professionalism

Other Skills

• Outpatient prenatal care/ Obstetric Triage/High-risk Obstetrics management

• Management of labor/ Fetal heart rate interpretation/ Operative vaginal delivery (vacuum application)/ Labour ultrasound

• Management of obstetric complications/ Critical care Obstetrics

• Surgical skills: cesarean section, tubal ligation, dilatation & curettage, management of miscarriage/ ectopic pregnancy, laparotomy, hysterectomy

• Basic laparoscopy skills (management of ectopic, diagnostic laparoscopy, ovarian cystectomy, laparoscopic sterilization)

• Gynaecology care (acute and chronic conditions): haemorrhage, infections, PID

Academics -

 MBBS, MS (Obstetrics & Gynaecology) from Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune University, India

1. MBBS, MS (Obstetrics & Gynaecology) from Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune University, India
2.  Organized and Conducted CME on Medical Disorders of Pregnancy at Military Hospital, Kirkee, Pune, India and presented on "Hypothyroidism in Pregnancy."
3. Workshop in Practical Obstetric Skills as a delegate at RCOG World Congress, Hyderabad, India
4. Training module of Neonatal Resuscitation Programme at Command Hospital Pune, India
5. Conducted periodic Obstetric Drills for Emergency Obstetric situations for training of Trained Birth Attendants, Nurses and paraclinical staff.
6. Guest Speaker in Online Webinar on Women's Health on the occasion of International Women's Day, 2021 attended by 100 army wives
7. Initiated an online resource for problem based learning/education for nurses working in multi site hospitals.

Orientation -

1. Camps for Screening for cervical and breast cancer

2. Volunteer classes for mentally retarded girls at Orphanage, Saugor, Madhya Pradesh,India

3. Health Education

Publications -

1. Dissertation/ Thesis on “Correlation of Doppler Middle Cerebral Artery-Peak Systolic Velocity with Fetal Anaemia in Rh Isoimmunized pregnancies”

2. Currently writing a Letter to the Editor for publication at MJAFI (Medical Journal of the Armed Forces India) on "Evolution and Challenges of the Informed Consent in Obstetrics and Gynaecology practice in a low resource setting"