Forty Years of our Batch 1973 Madurai Medicos!

This month before forty years as we entered our Madurai Medical College, our association between us formed as such by itself! Let us remember this fortieth anniversary of inception of us as Madurai Medicos! And wish all the best for our ASSOCIATION between us exist eternally, 1973 Batch Madurai Medicos!

Viewing faculties of our College!

View here our then College faculties!

Courtesy: Dr.Madhan Raj

Courtesy: Skan Sundar

(click on the photo to view it larger)

Courtesy: Madurai Medicos

Nostalgic view

View here one of the Lecture Halls that we lived in at afternoons in 1970s when we studied in Madurai Medical College:

Found-out Andhaman batch-mate!

For years long when we have been talking about our batch-mates who had lost contact with us after graduation from Madurai Medical College, Madurai. With our sincere efforts, we have now traced out our Andhaman batch-mate, Dr.Taravathy at New Delhi!

Dr.Taravathy 

                                                        

University honouring Batch-mate

Our batch-mate, Dr.K.Kumaresan M.B.,B.S., M.App.Sc. has been recently honoured by M.G.R. Medical University for his meritorious service to the Medical Profession as Visiting Professor (National):

- Receipt of Certificate from Vice Chancellor 

 Certificate

Again from Poet's Valley!

Read here the farewell lines of our batch-mate, Dr.K.Sundram, when we were about to break away from our College to the outer world then in 1978:

Courtesy: Madurai Medical College 1978 College Magazine

Our College Surgeons' views

View here the photos of our college days teaching faculties of our college:

                          Dr.Andappan, Chief, Thoracic Surgery

Courtesy: A.Anandi

Dr.Sathiyavan, Chief, Surgery

(and our batch-mate, Dr.Janardhanan)

Courtesy: 'Madurai Medicos'

Find our batch-mate in this photo

Identify our batch-mate/s here in this photo. The audience seen here in this photo were clicked during the Silver Jubilee Meet of the First Fifty Madurai Medicos belonging to 1954 batch, that was conducted in 1979. (Click on the photo to see it in a larger size).

One of our batch-mates is Dr.Jaffar Ali Shaikh MRCP (UK), DCH (Lond), FAAP (US). Then, could you find others, seated beside and behind him? Reply by clicking on 'comments' seen below.

Courtesy: 'Madurai Medicos'

Identifying our College Seniors

Batch-mates, without our Seniors we could not have been formed or carved as efficient Medical graduates out of our College. We got their guidance in all, whether they were a Hosteler or a Day scholar. Here let us identify our Seniors belonging to the 1970 batch of our Medical College, as they were seen in the College days (click on to view the photo in a larger size):

Poet's Valley - from 1978 College Magazine

Again from our batch-mates' production, 1978 Madurai Medical College Magazine:
Read here the lines on Nature seen around atop the hostel, on that cool morning!

                                                               - :)
                                                                           

Demise of our Pathology Teacher

Dr.S.Subramanian M.D.(Pathology), our Pathology lecturer of our College days, expired on 10th September 2012.

Photo courtesy: Dinamalar

Birth of our Madurai Medical College

View here Inauguration ceremony of our Madurai Medical College: 

Advanced Research Lab - ICMR approval!

Read here about ICMR's approval for setting up an advanced research laboratory at our Madurai Medical College:

Advanced Research Laboratory at Madurai Medical College approval by ICMR

Teaching Fraternities' opinions - 1978 Magazine

Here we continue appreciation of our 1978 College Magazine and its contents. Read here the opinions on Medical education, Medical profession and ragging that were shared in the magazine by then teaching fraternities.

Dr.Vembar, Professor of Pharmocology, on Medical examinations:
"The oral is a complimentary to the written examination and the student can improve and improvise on his written performance. The internal examiner acts as a coordinator. And as the medical student has his orals from his first year he must get used to it psychologically and must be free from any fear for it. ....
The present day examinations are more a test for memory and not for knowledge. The best thing again is to opt for an internal assessment based on a series of objective written performance of a candidate during the course"
          - from 'Know an Examiner' of the magazine.



Dr.K.Balakrishnan, Professor of Surgery, advises PGs:
'.....What is required for a surgical degree is not extra intelligence but a steady constant work. It requires application and that knowledge only put me in good stead'
         - from 'A SURGEON'S POINT OF VIEW' of the magazine.

Dr.Vijayaraghavan, S.P.M. Professor, on profession:
"... One thing is that I don't like private practice. I don't like putting up a clinic, waiting for the patients, and talking to satisfy them, collecting money from them and all those things. Another thing is the preventive aspect; implementation of various national health programmes for the good of the public is more interesting to me. So, I opted myself for the public health side."
          - from 'The S.P.M. Professor talks...' of the magazine.

Dr.N.Krishnamoorthy, Ophthalmologist, on ragging:
'.... Ragging is the best way the juniors can be introduced into the new environment. "They may not be knowing what is happening outside" It happened in our batch. One of the freshers fell ill and only a senior student who ragged him the previous day took him to the hospital in the dead of night, brought him by cycle - rickshaw spending his own money.'
        - from 'KALVIGURU & KAMAGURU ......' of the magazine.

Demise of Chief - Dr.C.Kalidas

It is informed hereby that our Madurai Medical College Surgical Unit ex-Chief, Dr.C.Kalidas expired.

Our Teachers in College Magazine 1978 - Dr.R.S.

 
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 . . .
 

Our College Medical Exhibition

Here is a news from our College published in a daily:

Madurai Medical College medical exhibition will be held from 12th to 17th November, 2010. It is named as "Syncytium." Latest techniques and trends in Medicine and Surgery are to be highlighted in it. It is conducted after a gap of six years.

Identify our College portion!

Can you identify the portion of our Madurai Medical College and the place from which the photo has been clicked? Reply in 'Comments' section.

Birth of the blog - Healers' Paradise!

Today this blog, Healers' Paradise has been started. It is the unique and exclusive blog for sharing the experience, expertise, thoughts, views and feelings between all of us. It is dedicated today, 18th September 2010 for the service of 1973 Batch-mates of Madurai Medical College, Madurai!