Residency Evaluation and Adherence Design Study III: Ophthalmology residency training in India: Then and now-Improving with time?

Purpose: To gauge the differences in ophthalmology residency training, academic, clinical and surgical, in the last three decades of the 20 century and the first decade of the 21 century.

Methods: A survey was conducted by the Academic and Research Committee of the All India Ophthalmological Society, in 2014-2016, using a prevalidated questionnaire, which was circulated to ophthalmologists to gauge the practicality of the teaching protocols of clinical and surgical skills during postgraduate residency program.

Results: Of the 1005 respondents, 320 ophthalmologists who completed residency between 1967 and 2002 (20 century trained) and 531 who completed a residency in 2003-2012 (21 century trained) fulfilled the inclusion criteria.

Expected surgical competencies of an Indian medical graduate: a gap analysis using a cross-sectional survey.

Background: In 2010, the Medical Council of India published the Vision 2015 document, which sought to create an 'Indian Medical Graduate' as a 'physician of first contact of the community while being globally relevant'. This vision for undergraduate medical education is proposed to be realised through a competency-based curriculum. We conducted a gap analysis using a cross-sectional survey to document surgeons' perceptions regarding competencies identified in surgery.

Heterosis as investigated in terms of polyploidy and genetic diversity using designed Brassica juncea amphiploid and its progenitor diploid species.

Fixed heterosis resulting from favorable interactions between the genes on their homoeologous genomes in an allopolyploid is considered analogous to classical heterosis accruing from interactions between homologous chromosomes in heterozygous plants of a diploid species. It has been hypothesized that fixed heterosis may be one of the causes of low classical heterosis in allopolyploids. We used Indian mustard (Brassica juncea, 2n = 36; AABB) as a model system to analyze this hypothesis due to ease of its resynthesis from its diploid progenitors, B.

Online faculty development for medical educators: experience of a South Asian program.

Context: India has the highest number of medical schools in the world. Teacher shortages and inadequate training of existing faculty are a major problem. On-line faculty development and learning is a plausible component of developing medical teachers in the essentials of pedagogy.

Intramedullary spinal cysticercosis cured with medical therapy: case report and review of literature.

Background: Spinal intramedullary cysticercosis is a very uncommon manifestation of NCC, which is caused by the larvae of Taenia solium.

Case Description: We report a case of spinal intramedullary cysticercosis who presented subacutely. Magnetic resonance imaging dorsal spine and CSF ELISA clinched the diagnosis.

From a "generalist" medical graduate to a "specialty" resident: can an entry-level assessment facilitate the transition? assessing the preparedness level of new surgical trainees.

Introduction: Concerns have been raised in the literature about how well the undergraduate curriculum prepares medical students for residency. An assessment was designed and administered to entering postgraduate residents in surgery to test their preparedness vis-a-vis the competence level expected of them at the beginning of their training. This paper explores the role and place of such an assessment in the medical education continuum.

Training of medical teachers in India: need for change.

India has the highest number of medical colleges in the world and consequently the highest number of medical teachers. The unprecedented growth of medical institutions in India in the past two decades has led to a shortage of teachers and created a quality challenge for medical education. In recent years, though medical advances have been understood and adopted by many institutions, the same is not true for educational planning and implementation.