Medicine freshers get useful tips

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Medicine freshers get useful tips

GUNTUR: For the first-year students of Guntur Medical College, the Freshers Day celebrations held at GMCANA on Thursday, were a wee bit different. With the college management to club an anti-ragging seminar with the event, the whole meeting assumed a serious tone.

The usual fun and frolic associated with such functions was missing, in fact the seniors were conspicuous by their absence and the freshers were left to entertain themselves.

But the students got an opportunity to peek into some of the interesting insights of the personality of Superintendent of Police Shankha Brata Bagchi, an MBBS alumni of Kolkata Medical College. Dr. Bagchi shared several personal experiences and followed up with some advice on how to build their careers.

Dr. Bagchi said that the students should have a long term planning and plan for their academic career after MBBS. If one could not make it to Post Graduation, he should not be disappointed and could opt for a certificate course in clinical subjects.

He also suggested the students to consider pursuing advanced medical education in UK, USA etc. Some of the students could also take up civil services, he added.

But the initial part of the speech was on ragging and the SP reminisced of his days at the medical college where he was also subjected to ragging by his seniors in the college canteen.
Tough job

He said that he was asked to gobble up all the food varieties by college union members and soon the rival union followed suit, sparking off peals of laughter from the students. But ragging these days has assumed monstrous forms and any act which could be interpreted by other student as insulting and intimidating could be considered as ragging, he said and added that stringent punishments under Anti-Ragging Act could spell trouble for students. Medical College principal Deshpande Achyuta Rao said that medical education has become a tough job and the rapid advances in medicine, called for greater involvement of students.

Advanced medical education has been changing rapidly with many sub-specialities, he added.

Vice-Principal (administration) and hostel warden U. Surya Kumari also spoke.