ICMR Opens STS-2015 Applications: Research Opportunity for Undergraduate Medical Students in India
The Indian Council of Medical Research has a run a very prestigious and increasingly sought after summer research programme forContinue Reading
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Brown Bag Sessions: Food for Thought
We have been contemplating the concept of having a Brown Bag session once in two weeks in our department forContinue Reading
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Talking to the Streets for Health: Street Theater as a Public Health Tool
Prior to coming to Delhi, I did not have much exposure to the power of the theater as a modeContinue Reading
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Literature Search Workshop at UCMS: Extra-Curricular Academics at the MEU
The Medical Education Unit at the University College of Medical Sciences, where I am now doing my residency, is aContinue Reading
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Facebooking Your Faculty: To be or not to be?
Few emerging technologies have taken by storm the world as much as Facebook has. Although a plummeting share price hasContinue Reading
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Protocol Writing Workshop 2012 and Falling in Love… with UCMS!
As residents, one of the most important things that we have to do is complete a dissertation, or thesis inContinue Reading
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Despatch from Narela: Another Rural Posting Experience
It has been quite a long hiatus since I last wrote here, and a plethora of changes have affected myContinue Reading
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On Being A Gadfly
Although this is the age of Evidence Based Medicine, in large parts of our country, the “E” in EBM doesContinue Reading
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Another AIPG Controversy
Rumors and hearsay have been a dime a dozen since the bombshell of an AIPG dropped on us and sinceContinue Reading
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MAHE: A Fantastic Test Experience of an Unfair Evaluation System
I took the Manipal MD/MS PG Entrance examination today (aka MAHE) and as it was the first ever online testContinue Reading
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Landmark Order: JIPMER Asked to Reveal Test Paper and Keys
One of the biggest bones that the Indian post graduate entrance examinees had to pick with the system was theContinue Reading
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Remembering Tinsley Harrison, the Oslerphile Physician
The past few weeks have been very demanding on me and I have not had the best of times, eitherContinue Reading
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Save the Junior Doctors: Primum Non Nocere
It seems like an age old saga of woe and misery. Once again the media and mob seem to haveContinue Reading
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Is MBBS Becoming a Vestigial Degree?
“There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a manContinue Reading
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Why the Future of Medicine Should Not be Predicted Based on Recruiting Company Surveys
KevinMD has been the blogging guru of almost all the young medical bloggers out there. I am no exception. IContinue Reading
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The Map of the Cat Conundrum: Richard Feynman and AIIMS November 2011
Well, that sounds like an odd assortment of topics to group under the same heading, does it not? Well, todayContinue Reading
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Charles Beevor: The Sign of a “Bloody” Jerk
Forgive the hyperbolic title. Do not take offense and read on before hating on me. Please note the post scriptContinue Reading
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Google+ for Google Apps, Open Lab and Exam Musings
So this is a bit of a mishmash of a post. Google Plus is finally being opened up to theContinue Reading
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What Flies in KVPY: A Sample Project
I have been getting a deluge of requests to post some examples of the type of projects that have beenContinue Reading
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PG CET: Not Happening in 2012. Thanks for the mess!
Oh well, this question has been bugging us endlessly for the past few weeks, ever since the MCI declared onContinue Reading
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Medical Student Research: The First Year Quandary
The problem with the Indian Medical Curriculum is that it is too intense, as it should be, no complaints there,Continue Reading
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Embryology Mnemonic #Fail
Anatomy and Embryology have remained some of the most volatile subjects that I learnt in my medical course. Little hasContinue Reading
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A Doctor’s Touch: An Oslerphile’s Delight
First watch this TED Talk: This talk touched upon one of the most important aspects of Medicine today. It isContinue Reading
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National Conference on Students’ Medical Research
The Community Medicine department of Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram is organizing the 5th National Conference on Students’ Medical Research. The themeContinue Reading
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Researching: A Foundation Workshop
Click pic to go to registration site. Undergraduate Medical Education in India sorely lacks any initiation into research knowledge. WhileContinue Reading
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USMLE: New Rules for Time Between Attempts
From January 1, 2012, there will be a new set of rules outlining the time between attempts for USMLE. TheContinue Reading
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FlowChart: Classifying Staphylococci
I made this using Bubbl.us which seems like a pretty decent tool to make simple flowcharts and stuff. What doContinue Reading
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CET: Proposing a NEET Idea
I have had this presentation made by Dr. Avinash Supe, Professor and HOD, Department of Gastrosurgery, KEM Hospital and SethContinue Reading
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NEET: Not Just A Neat Idea?
So according to the latest update on the website of the Medical Council of India, the proposed merging of stateContinue Reading
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Social Media for Medical Education
The brilliant Neil Mehta, on his blog Technology in (Medical) Education, has presented a wonderful way of using Google readerContinue Reading
