Prevalence of Tobacco Consumption and Its Contributing Factors among Students of a Private Medical College in Belgaum: A Cross Sectional Study.

Background: Tobacco consumption epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats that the world is facing and attracts the attention of researchers to identify the cause for the same in specific groups. Medical students act as mentors to fight against tobacco use, but several reports suggest that a good number of medical undergraduates are themselves addicted to tobacco use. Thus, the objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of tobacco consumption and its association with various factors among undergraduate medical students.

Radiographic assessment of facial soft tissue thickness in South Indian population--An anthropologic study.

Facial reconstruction is a technique used in forensic anthropology to identify an unknown person. Various methods used for facial reconstruction are drawings, sculpture and computer aided image building which is mainly based on facial soft tissue thickness measurement. Several methods have been established for measuring facial soft tissue thickness (FSTT) with each one having certain limitations.

Effectiveness of team-based learning in microbiology: a non-randomized control study.

Background: As per the present curriculum in India, pre- and paraclinical subjects are taught away from the clinical setting. Therefore, students fail to connect the subject taught through didactic lectures to the clinical setting. Team-based learning (TBL) can be used in conjunction with lectures to teach applied microbiology.

Tumor budding is an independent prognostic factor for prediction of lymph node metastasis in oral squamous cell carcinoma.

Objective: Despite the enormous advances in diagnostic and management modalities of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), the mortality rates have remained stagnant with a 5-year survival rate of <50% challenging the available methods of prognostic assessment. Presence of tumor budding has been associated with aggressive behavior and is correlated with lymph node metastasis, recurrence, distant metastasis, and decreased survival in several cancers. However, the prognostic significance of this apparently simple to evaluate parameter is sparse in OSCC.

Morbidity pattern in foundry workers--a cross-sectional study in an urban area of north Karnataka.

Foundry industry which is a well established in India employs many workers. These workers are exposed to metal dusts, metal fumes, chemicals, heat and high temperature. To determine the morbidity pattern in foundry workers, a cross-sectional study was conducted in the semi-urban area of Belgaum in Karnataka.