Students’ self-development scheme
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- Under this program students were given assistance for self-assessment of learning progress and for alleviating deficiencies, if any. Every one required to fill up a checklist on weekly basis. The checklist incorporated items, such as, class attendance, attention, reading and understanding of lessons taught in classes, writing of laboratory notes, regularity of participation in examinations, marks obtained, etc. and helped to determine the ratings of academic progress of individual students. This gave the concerned student an impression of the status of learning and alerts about the deficiencies. The MIG facilitated the process and also assisted the students to correct the deficiencies by themselves.
Audio-video library
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- Under this scheme, efforts were primarily for audio recordings of the teachers’ class lectures. In the past, valuable lectures of the experienced and eminent teachers were lost. Our program enabled the students to later navigate through the lessons, if they failed to fully follow the lectures. It further influenced the teachers to improve the quality of lectures. In addition, video films were collected with the help of different pharmaceutical companies, individuals and institutions. It was also planned to procure some educational audio and video cassettes from abroad.
Rewarding the deserving students & teachers
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- There was limited provision for rewarding the students who obtained distinctions in examinations. The MIG introduced such rewarding system. Endeavors were also taken to identify and to reward those worthy and dedicated teachers who, through their knowledgeable lessons, excellent presentations and cooperative attitudes to the students, were playing commendable roles in medical education. ‘Students’ opinion survey’ through specific checklists on items, such as, lesson contents, style of expression, capability of presenting complex things in most simple forms, personality, relationship with the students, and attitude towards them, etc. served as the tool for nominating deserving teachers.
Research
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- We developed interests amongst the students for research activities. Students were offered practical training on all research aspects, viz. selecting appropriate and interesting topics, protocol development, data collection, analysis and interpretation, report writing and presentation.
News and information clipping service
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- Summaries of medical news, views and articles published in news papers and medical journals were compiled and distributed amongst the interested teachers, doctors, nurses and students on fortnightly basis. The clients required to provide a nominal service charge. Provision for supplying copy of original document was also available on request. The MIG also gladly accepted the requests for distributing the newsletters and publications of other organizations/institutions. The MIG also published brochures, posters, newsletters, research reports and books.
Information Technology services
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- The MIG earnestly expected the application of latest computer technology in medical education and health system. Accordingly, we introduced Medical Internet Service, MEDINET, computer training programs for medical students, doctors and teachers. To help getting requisite information for carrying out research activities, we introduced CD based POPLINE service.
Seminars & discussion sessions
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- There was regular arrangement for holding seminars, symposia and discussion sessions on topic of current interests and problems of medical education and profession. Variety of topics and application of modern technologies were special attraction.