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 . . .
 

Batch-mates' Service in College - 1978 College Magazine

Our Batch-mates rendered services even at our College. View them here in pictures that had been recorded in our 1978 College Magazine:

Blood Donors Club Secretary

- from the article, 'A Pint of Blood, Please!'

Selvaraj Manoharan,
N.S.S. Secretary

Children care

Letter writing
-from the article,  'Social Service & N.S.S.'

Chandramouli,
Fine Arts Secretary seen with Dean

Fine Arts Group Batch-mates, Muthusamy,
Murugesa Duraisingam & Jeyaraj
- from the article, 'Fine Arts and Insults'

About woes of Additionals in 1978 College Magazine

Excerpts from ‘The Sky Above - The Mud Below’ of our 1978 College Magazine about ‘additionals’:

‘Amidst our lighted corridors there are dark passages. Among the laughing faces there are some hurt looks. For example the medical student is not academically better off than an engineering college student. His curriculum does not allow for human failing and natural calamities, in that he cannot carry the subjects in which he has failed to the next academic year.’
 
‘They are suffering a lot. They have lost all their drive for life and sustain their hope with very little practicality. They are like the sick children who must be nursed separately.’
 
‘Unless the problem of additionals is taken up seriously, there will grow a large population of these students with psychological undertones and political overlay.’

College Magazine 1978 - Administrators and Editor

                                                          Dean

                                                 Editor with Dean

                                                        Chairman

                                                        Gen Sec
                                                              
                                                                                  - To be continued                     

Legend for the Cartoon - 1978 College Magazine

Excerpts from ‘Legend for the cartoon in the fly leaf’ of our College Magazine 1978:

‘The first block houses eagles over its terrace and hunting is strictly prohibited here. Trespassers and omelette-lovers will be prosecuted. You get a free view of any play or dance in the Gandhi Museum stadium,’

‘The extension counter of IOB, sees a lot of turnover and the Madurai Medico has always a savings account of Rs.5 only, and this is one of the few banks not touched by robbers.’

‘In the library straining the brains of our students, some students rest their brains and they sleep over the books. It is also a large recreation room in between classes; there are as many mosquitoes as there are books but fewer girls at any time of the day.’

‘The third block adjacent to the L.H. houses the animal house above the III floor, which hosts no pet animals. But what thrives there has a veterinary officer to take care of them. But it will be surprising that many students have not known its existence and fewer have crossed its entrance. When research abounds in our college in future we might have monkeys here but never an elephant. They are becoming extinct, you know.’

        - Cartoon and content by Sridhar. 

                                                             - To be continued.

College Magazine 1978 - Designs and Editors

The other day our College magazine of 1978 was traced out and found to be replete with our batch-mates' articles and pictures. As each of its pages were opened past memories became the recent memories making live the past! Here are some pictures from it to make us feel younger once more. Feel the past as present!

Front Cover
 

Inner Design

 

Dedication

 

                                                                                 - To be continued.
                                                                                      

About Intra-nasal Swine Flu vaccine

As you know a painless vaccine for the prevention of Swine Flu by intra-nasal route has been introduced in India and approved by Tamil Nadu Government. An excerpt from an article about it has been given below:
‘The vaccine is approved by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) for usage by any individual above three years of age, except pregnant women’

Read more here about the vaccine in this article:
Intra-nasal Vaccine for the prevention of H1N1