Dr Neelesh Bhandari's List: Medical Education

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Web 2.0 is changing the study of medicine by opening up totally new ways of learning and teaching in an ongoing process. Global social networking services like Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Google Drive and Xing already play an important part in communication both among students and between students and teaching staff. Moreover, local portals (such as the platform [http://www.leipzig-medizin.de] established in 2003) have also caught on and in some cases eclipsed the use of the well-known location-independent social media.

Although relatively few medical schools have embraced social media to promote faculty development, the present range of such uses demonstrates the flexibility and affordability of the tools. The most popular tools incorporate well into faculty members' existing use of technology and require minimal additional effort. Additional research into the benefits of engaging faculty through social media may help overcome hesitation to invest in new technologies.

The Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) has decided to grant seven marks to all those who took the post-graduate medical entrance exam.
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<br />The move comes after candidates pointed out anomalies in the paper. The exam carried a maximum of 300 marks and 258 marks is the highest score.

A small but growing number of researchers are uncovering evidence that readers are better able to remember what they read in printed books long-term when compared to materials read via an electronic screen, raising questions about tablets in the classroom.

With a drop in number of residencies available in the US, medical students in America are facing a severe job crunch!

More and more people are searching for information on mobile phones in India. Data from many Medical blogs and digital properties maintained by Digital MedCom Solutions show 25%-40% of Indian doctors access content and e-newsletters via smartphones or Tablels. This trend is seen more in urban and semi urban areas,

A PowerPoint presentation looking at the evolution of medical education in India <br/>
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Doctors need medical updates from a myriad of online resources. We will conduct workshops for medical school students in Maharashtra, India to teach them to search these resources correctly, early in their profession. Based on the outcome, this will be extended to other parts of India. This will ensure that these students will regularly search for the best information updates to use in their profession and their patients will get treatment and services based on best global practices.

The Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) organised the second Institute Research Day on Sunday.
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<br />Over 250 members of the faculty participated by presenting their original published work of last two years.
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<br />In addition to the general open category, research papers were also presented in three special categories of tuberculosis, hypertension, innovation and collaborative group research.

Justice K K Sasidharan, dismissing the petition of M K Rajagopalan of Sri Sathya Sai Medical College in Kancheepuram, on Monday said: "Ill-equipped medical institutions often produce half-baked medical professionals. Medical seats are reported to be auctioned for crores... It is said that even for awarding more marks or to make a failed candidate pass in MBBS courses, some of the deemed universities are charging a hefty sum. If this trend continues, a time would come when patients would verify the degree certificates of medical professionals before taking treatment."

Most of the time, patients hide their confusion because they are embarrassed. It takes an aware and persistent healthcare provider to discover and manage low health literacy.
In a voluntary program started by students in 2012, students work early in their medical school careers with patients in the community. The Patient Advocate Connection (PACt) is mentored jointly by family medicine and internal medicine faculty members within our department. The program involves about 10 percent of the first- and second-year classes.

According to the state higher education dep­ar­­­t­ment, of the 180 engineering colleges in the state, 163 are collecting between Rs 5,000 and Rs 31,000 from CET students as miscellaneous (extra) fee.
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<br />The One Man Committee for Students' Grievances headed by former Vice Chancellor of Karnataka Unive­r­s­ity, Prof. Shrinivasa Saidapur, is looking into the issue even as the AICTE and the state government have banned collecting of this extra fee from the students.

The state government is likely to present a list of some 100 students who were allegedly benefitted by the inter-state MP-Pre Medical Test (MPPMT) racket and had secured admissions in the state's medical colleges before the Indore High Court on Friday, according to sources.

Though state councils have on-line registration software, much needs to be done to implement online registration system and prepare a live, real time register at the national level by integrating state and national registers, he said in his message to the inauguration function of National Conference of Network of State Medical Councils which he could not attend.
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<br />The Minister asked the Medical Council of India and all the State Medical Councils to focus their energies on starting work in this important area at the earliest.

Medical education, from traditional medical school to the field training of paramedics, is about to fall under the influence of Google Glass. Today, high tech training simulation is mainstream. For example, computer driven mannequins can be programmed to simulate an extensive array of cardiac arrhythmias from ventricular fibrillation to atrial flutter–all important clinical conditions, but with greatly varying treatment scenarios. And making a “training emergency” as real as possible helps improved what happens in the real world. But now, Google Glass is being tested as a new layer of technology that makes education more realist and potentially more effective.

Aims & Objectives
<br />1. To promote and encourage development and advancement of Health Professions Education.
<br />2. To encourage and promote educational research activities pertaining to Health Professions Education.
<br />3. To arrange regular scientific meetings, symposia and seminars.
<br />4. To conduct regional meetings and form state branches to promote Health Professions Education.
<br />5. To work together for mutual benefit with organizations promoting Health Professions Education both in India and abroad.
<br />6. To promote publication of articles relating to Health Professions Education in various national and International journals.

Visit a country of paradoxes. India has the largest number of medical colleges in the world (more than 350), and we get a significant number of medical tourists, a reflection of the high-level of medical expertise that we possess. However, a majority of our citizens have limited access to quality healthcare — less than half of our children are fully immunised. Similarly, the minimum of three checkups during pregnancy remains unavailable for half of our pregnant women. To understand this anomaly, we have to go back to the clinical settings where doctors avail training.

I have never been very computer or tech savvy. I’m not up-to-date on the latest technology, but I do have a smart phone and a laptop which I use for their very basic purposes; and I do admit I have a Facebook account, mostly for keeping in touch with friends and family and, you know, the daily grind. Up until recently, I had no idea how to “Tweet” or what Twitter was really all about.

The Human Anatomy Education Page was launched on Facebook and incorporated into anatomy resources for 157 medical students during two academic years. Students' use of Facebook and their perceptions of the Page were surveyed. Facebook's "Insights" tool was also used to evaluate Page performance during a period of 600 days.