Dr.R.Subramaniam
What our teachers have told about medical students and medical education in our College Magazine 1978? Read on here the excerpts from the discussion with Dr.R.Subramaniam:
(Introducing about the teacher) ... Ever clad in snow white sleeves and trousers, he is someone we look up to, to realise the vastness of Medicine. He has his own way of getting about tutoring his students.
(Replying to the question) Can you give us your bio-data?
I passed my BSC in 1950 ... joined in Stanley Medical College, in 1950 June. Failed in medicine in '55; became an additional student; passed out in Dec. 1955. ...joined MD in 1957. ...So the stigma of an additional was hanging over my head till I finished MD. ... in 69-promoted as an associate professor ...I utilised the time to refurbish myself with more knowledge of Medicine and Teaching, from journals etc. ... and became an additional professor in 1975 and professor of therapeutics in 1977, as I am now continuing.
(Replying to the question about additionals writing medal exams)
Do you think such intelligence is there in April batch?
Look now, in the beginning itself I told you that not all those who fail are fools. (He was pretty angry when he said that .....) They are students, even better. In the first two batches of additional students I handled I produced six post-graduates...
- from the article, AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR . . .
