Evaluation of Competencies Related to Personal Attributes of Resident Doctors by 360 Degree.

Introduction: Postgraduate teaching involves training the residents in all spheres including professionalism, communication and interpersonal skills in addition to the basic clinical skills. Therefore, 360 degree evaluation has gained focus due to increased standards of medical care as shown in this study.

Aim: To evaluate interpersonal and communication skills and professionalism in residents doctors using 360 degree evaluation method.

Prevalence and associated factors of dry eye: Our experience in patients above 40 years of age at a Tertiary Care Center.

Context: Dry eye is a very common as well as under-diagnosed ocular disorder. It is not only troublesome in terms of its symptoms but also imposes a great financial burden.

Aims: To determine the prevalence of dry eye in ophthalmology out-patients at a Tertiary Care Hospital and its association with various clinico-epidemiological factors.

Impairments in motor coordination without major changes in cerebellar plasticity in the Tc1 mouse model of Down syndrome.

Down syndrome (DS) is a genetic disorder arising from the presence of a third copy of human chromosome 21 (Hsa21). Recently, O'Doherty et al. [An aneuploid mouse strain carrying human chromosome 21 with Down syndrome phenotypes.

Ensheathing cell cultures from the olfactory bulb and mucosa.

Transplantation of cells cultured from the nerve layers of the adult rat olfactory bulb has been shown to repair CNS tract injuries. The precise cellular composition of the culture appears to be important for this effect. Comparison was made of tissue cultured from the adult rat olfactory mucosa with that from the olfactory bulb.