Pentavalent Vaccine in Immunization Programme

Read here about the new Pentavalent Vaccine introduced today in Tamil Nadu in the Universal Immunisation Programme:

Pentavalent Vaccine is a boon to the children

Protect the poor children with Pentavalent vaccine

Birth of our Madurai Medical College

View here Inauguration ceremony of our Madurai Medical College: 

Genetic cure with the Glow Dog!

Read here about the genetic to treat diseases with the Glowing dog!

Treating human illnesses with the Glowing Dog!

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

Batch-mates in Poovar get together

View here the picture of our Batch-mates at Poovar Get - together 2004. See our Dr.Murugadas appear in it:

Winners with smiling faces

WHO classifies Mobile Phone as Carcinogen!

Read here about WHO classification of Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields as possibly Carcinogenic to Humans:

The WHO/International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified radio-frequency electromagnetic fields as  possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B), based  on  an increased  risk  for   glioma,  a  malignant  type  of  brain  cancer , associated with wireless phone use.

 

The IARC  Monograph  Working  Group  discussed  the  possibility  that  these  exposures  might induce long‐term health effects, in particular an increased risk for cancer. This has relevance for public health, particularly for users of mobile phones, as the number of users is large and growing, particularly among young adults and children.

Results

The evidence was reviewed critically, and overall evaluated as being limited    among users     of wireless telephones for glioma and acoustic neuroma, and inadequate to draw conclusions for other types of cancers. The evidence from the occupational and environmental exposures mentioned above was similarly judged inadequate. The Working Group did not quantitate the risk; however, one study of past cell phone use (up to the year 2004), showed a 40% increased risk for gliomas in the highest category of heavy users (reported average: 30 minutes per day over a 10‐year period).

Conclusions

Dr Jonathan Samet (University of Southern California, USA), overall Chairman of the Working Group, indicated that "the evidence, while still accumulating, is strong enough to support a conclusion and the 2B classification. The conclusion means that there could be some risk, and therefore we need to keep a close watch for a link between cell phones and cancer risk."

"Given the potential consequences for public health of this classification and findings," said IARC Director Christopher Wild, "it is important that additional research be conducted into the long‐ term, heavy use of mobile phones. Pending the availability of such information, it is important to take pragmatic measures to reduce exposure such as hands‐free devices or texting. "

Magic of sunshine!

By clicking on the link find here how Vitamin D generated by sun light enhances the sperm motility towards egg:

Sunshine Linked to fatherhood

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.

Exam for Indian Medical Graduate status & PG course

Recently, President of Medical Council of India, Dr.Sarin has proposed to conduct licentiate exams after internship of MBBS students for qualifying to the Indian Medical Graduate status (IMG). It is said that this exam will give more weightage in ranking for PG courses, and thus will lead to scrapping of the existing PG entrance exams. By 2017 one could see this exam made mandatory. Read the following for further details and other plans of MCI regarding PG courses:
MCI to introduce exam for MBBS graduates to qualify for degree - (1)

MCI to introduce exam for MBBS graduates to qualify for degree - (2)

MCI plans to scrap PG exam - (1)

MCI plans to scrap PG exam - (2)

Entertainers in 1978 College Magazine

Our 1978 College Magazine contains also pictures of entertainers. View them here:

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 . . .
 

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.’