Study of menstrual cycle synchrony in female medical students sharing common accommodation.

Context: Menstrual cycle synchronization is a phenomenon in which menstrual onset shifts progressively closer with time. It is an adoptive conditional phenomenon seen in the females who associate closely and share a common environment.

Aims: To ascertain whether menstrual cycle synchrony exists in the roommates living in a closed space in a medical hostel.

Association of ABO blood types and novel obesity markers in healthy adolescents.

Introduction: Association of ABO blood type with body mass index (BMI) was explored in the past studies, but literature on association of novel obesity markerssuch as total body fat and lean body mass (LBM) is scarce. The present study aimed to evaluate the relationship of ABO blood types with novel obesity markers in normal adolescents.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional study was done on 387 medical students.

Anthropometric Predictors of Bio-Impedance Analysis (BIA) Phase Angle in Healthy Adults.

Introduction: Phase Angle (PhA) is a ratio of whole body reactance and resistance obtained from Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA). It indicates cellular health and integrity and is considered as prognostic tool in medical disorders. In spite of prognostic potentials of PhA, it has limited usefulness in clinical practice and in population studies because of non-availability of normal population reference limits for comparison.

Pharmacotherapeutics knowledge of some nonemergency and emergency conditions among medical undergraduates in an Indian medical college.

Objectives: To assess pharmacotherapeutics (PT) knowledge of second professional medical undergraduates.

Materials And Methods: It is a questionnaire-based cross-sectional study. The questionnaire was designed to objectively assess the current level of knowledge of PT acquired by the second MBBS students in a medical college in India.

Contemplation on marking scheme for Type X multiple choice questions, and an illustration of a practically applicable scheme.

Ever since its inception 100 years back, multiple choice items have been widely used as a method of assessment. It has certain inherent limitations such as inability to test higher cognitive skills, element of guesswork while answering, and issues related with marking schemes. Various marking schemes have been proposed in the past but they are not balanced, skewed, and complex, which are based on mathematical calculations which are typically not within the grasp of medical personnel.