Delivering disability competencies of MCI's revised competency based curriculum at a medical university in North Karnataka.

Background: India has ratified with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and has passed the Rights of People with Disabilities Act in 2016. There is need for training healthcare professionals in disability competencies as people with disabilities are many and marginalized. Disability competencies were introduced in the foundation course of revised competency based medical curriculum for Indian medical graduates by the Medical Council of India (MCI) just prior to the rollout of the programme.

Perceptions of Interns and General Medicine Examiners Regarding Cardiovascular Case Presentation in Practical Exams of General Medicine in Final MBBS Summative Examinations.

Introduction: Assessment of cardiovascular cases in practical exit exam is limited to simple history taking and physical examination. Standards of assessment are not uniform. This makes assessment less valid and reliable.

Paroxysmal Nocturnal Haemoglobinuria Masquerading as Malaria: A Case Report.

Paroxysmal Nocturnal Haemoglobinuria (PNH) is a rare type of acquired Haemolytic anaemia that is described as a triad of acquired intravascular Haemolysis, venous thrombosis and anaemia with pancytopenia sometimes due to bone marrow failure. However the classical triad may not be observed at once and fever due to leucocytopenia may confuse the clinical picture. Since this is a rare disease, other epidemiologically common causes may be attributed to the illness.

Obstetric acute kidney injury; a three year experience at a medical college hospital in north karnataka, India.

Introduction: Acute kidney injury is a rare and sometimes fatal complication of pregnancy, the incidence of which has been declining worldwide, though still high in developing countries. There are recent observations of increasing incidence in some developed countries attributed to hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.

Materials And Methods: In this study, we have analysed the records of all patients referred to the dialysis unit of a medical college hospital in Karnataka for acute kidney injury related to pregnancy.