A Rendezvous  with the  Dean Dr. S. Shrivastava

Dean of a medical at such a young age, how does it feel?
It feels really good. Age is not the achievement. The achievement is I was at the right place in the right time. At my time the tradition was shifting from medical colleges to private practice. I went against the time and stuck to hardcore traditional medical college job. So my seniority grew really fast and within a short span of time, I gained a lot.

A lot of changes are going on in our college, be it renovations in the lecture halls or the other construction work. Sir, can you give us a concept plan of all the changes which is in your mind?
When I think of this college, I think 20 years ahead. All the changes being made are in that respect. And thing that is required the most is infrastructure; you have to have a good infrastructure including good lecture hall and labs to make a conducive environment for learning. And things are being done to improve this aspect of our institution .because our output is not what we are achieving it is what u will achieve. The input is you the output is you. We are just in between helping you. So to make the environment student centric is my responsibility. It said now days that today’s doctor are not good enough. I say it is not the students who are not good, it is just that what is to be learnt is a lot, the time period is short and the expectations are really high. What I learnt during my UG days .it is also taught to you and as it is said medical knowledge becomes twice every 5 years. So u read 4 times of what I read but the time period given is same.

How important do you think attendance is?
Two things take huge efforts one is to get distinction and to fail. If you come to the class everyday. I give you assurance u wont fail. It seems as attendance to you .but it seems as assurance to your teachers. And tell me you have really less time to learn and revise. You cannot afford to lose even a single minute. Medical science is more of wisdom and less of knowledge .it is more of correlation which you are being taught in the lectures. so attending them is a must .you cannot cope up with the entire syllabus in just 15 days before exams like other courses. So it is like lectures provide you a routine with which you can study and complete your course on time. So attend the classes.


What is your mantra for life?

Live the moment not the hour. Live where you are... not the future nor the past .now am sitting with you... am with you... once in a meeting... am in a different mindset... if off for a holiday a.. Am in a total frolic mood. don't mix work... I try to finish things as soon as possible. Don’t leave things incomplete / out of sight, out of mind... so keep things in writing... don’t keep them in mind... so there  is no burden on your mind. Once the work is done... the time which is left is mine. I have a library of my own... so my mantra is either finish of a novel or see a movie for 2-3 hours a day. And it is not that u will not get time... if you want to do the things... you have enough time. Just prioritization is all what is needed.

What advice will you give to our readers for study?
There are two things study and time.

Leave the burden of failing. If your attendance is good and if you are attentive enough you will pass. In Indian scenario you can guess what examiner is going to ask. You can get into the mindset of the examiner and foresee what will be asked. Condensation gives you a better idea. Elaboration is not needed in UG level. Illustration makes you focused. It is the idea which you should get into and not the content. Simple way of studying is read the whole chapter fast  within 2 hours  without bothering how much have u grasped or not .. Sit for 5 minutes and think what was really there to read in it. Highlight it and read it. It will save your time... mark the keywords remember them and you can write volumes on that topic with the help of those words.

Once you get the basic grip... it is not difficult to form a diagnosis. But the point is you will have to read every day .as far as time management is concerned it is a very simple thing, You just have to prioritize the things and everything will fall in place automatically. Just document the things and the conflict is over and you will save the time wasted just in thinking.

Clarity of thoughts is all what is needed. Be practical in making your priorities .even if you miss a thing for a day... you can roll it over

Never repent for what you did

Never ever feel guilt for what happened... look forward... if you do that nobody can stop you...

Never compare yourself... why me or why not me... Be happy in both the conditions...

                                   

Kaleidoscope

Live life

the “Student” Way … !

1- SPEED : Getting ready in 5 minutes.

2- SHARING : Whole class copying one assignment but in totally different ways.

3- PRESENTATION SKILLS : Can present one answer in 5 different ways for 5 different questions

4- EDITING : Your report contains atleast 5 pages less than the person from whom you copied.

5- MULTI TASKING: playing games on cell, sms to gf/bf, gossiping with seat mate, day dreaming, making teacher's sketch and still pretending that you are listening what teacher is saying.

6- ART : beautiful art on the last page of note book.

7- SENSE OF HUMOR : Provide best unintentional humour to teachers during Viva.

8- CONSISTENCY : Once a Zero, always a Zero!

9- VOICE MODULATION : Attendance in 5 different voices.

10- STAMINA : Tolerating teacher for consecutive 1 hour.

11- PERIPHERAL VISION: Staring at your crush, no matter where so ever he/she sits.

12- HUMANITY : Failing and keeping the consistency of giving others a chance to top!

13- TALENT : Make whole class laugh no matter how tense is the situation!

– Priya Kushwaha, 2008 batch

FUTURE PROSPECTS

Freshly out of medical college as a trained medical graduate, ABC had dreams in his heart of the services he would bestow upon the world as a newly qualified medical professional. Although he knew his prospects as “just a medical graduate” were few and to demonstrate the world his true potential he would have to climb the mountain of POST GRADUATION, his hopes were undeterred. And so began he a long journey which would unfold his hidden destination as a medical personnel…

But little did he know that this tiring journey for his search of the medical specialty of his choice and requirement was in fact … tiring … and frustrating … and misleading … and confusing …

Does this incidence sound familiar to you? Do you find yourself nodding your head when you put yourself in a similar position regarding the future of your post graduate degree? Does the thought of “What Next After MBBS” leave you with cold feet and sweaty palms???

Then read on …

It has been recognized as a pretty common trend of students preferring to take up alternate professions after completing their MBBS. Does it sound weird and unlikely???

Then you’d be surprised to know that more and more medical graduates are preferring to taking up jobs and occupations which do not require in anyway, examining patients, making a diagnosis or writing prescriptions … !!! Or even a fairly large number of students are preferring to do their Post Graduation in the Unconventional Branches…

Let us take a peak into the various job opportunities which might present upon us after we cross the great sea of MBBS …

Hospital Management and Administration

Hospital Administration is concerned with planning, organizing, staffing, coordinating, controlling and evaluating health services for the community to provide maximum patient care of superior quality at low cost so as to reduce morbidity and mortality. This branch has an extremely bright future as large number of corporate hospitals, industrial house sponsored hospitals and multinational hospitals are being established and as newer diseases, newer diagnostic technologies, day-care surgeries are coming up, need for trained hospital administrators and managers will be increase exponentially.

Career in the Armed Forces

The Army Medical Corps provides promising and challenging career for medical graduates as Short Service Commissioned (SSC) Officers. Both male and female candidates who have passed their final MBBS examination in first or second attempt only and have completed their internship are eligible for grant of short service commission in the Army Medical Corps.

Being a Medical Officer of Armed Forces Medical Services, the candidate on grant of commission is liable to be employed as per service requirement in any part of country or abroad in Army, Navy or Air Force. They may have to work independently in the units allotted to them.

Doctors on commissioning will be granted the rank of captain or equivalent rank in Navy and Air Force in the scale of Rs.15,600 –Rs.39100 plus grade pay of Rs.6,100 and Military Service Pay (MSP) Rs.6,000, non-practicing allowance at the rate of 25 per cent of the basic pay and dearness allowance and the total emoluments at the minimum pay scale at the time of joining will be approximately Rs.42,000 per month.

MBA

If you are a person who feels that Medicine is an extremely specialized field, instead a career in business would provide a larger canvas to explore and help broaden horizons, then doing a Masters in Business Administration would be a welcome option for you. After doing an MBA you can pursue a position in industries such as

   * Healthcare services delivery (hospitals, hospital chains)

    * Pharmaceutical companies

    * Biotech companies

    * Healthcare consulting

    * NGOs

And the functional areas you can get in are –

    * Healthcare services delivery (hospitals, hospital chains)

          o Marketing and customer relations

          o Sales

          o Business development

          o Health administration

    * Pharmaceutical and biotech companies

          o Marketing and customer relations

          o Sales

          o Operations

          o Business development

          o Licensing

          o Discovery project management and evaluation

          o Medico-marketing

 having done an MBBS before the MBA would give a better insight into the various duties you are expected to fulfill in a business oriented job in the Medical Field. This way there would be utilization of your 5 ½ years at medical college as well as fulfillment of your innate aspirations.

Emergency Medicine

Emergency medicine is a medical specialty in which a physician receives practical training to care for patients with acute illnesses or injuries which require immediate medical attention. This might be the field for you is you think that the usual challenges a doctor faces are not challenging enough for you. EM is an electrifying branch with an increasing popularity and need in India.

Master In Medical Science And Technology (MMST)

A three-year Masters in Medical Science and Technology (MMST) programme is offered for MBBS graduates, with a view to imparting engineering skills to medical professionals and training them for state-of-art medical research in the frontier areas of medical imaging and image analysis, telemedicine and Tele Surgery, biosensors and medical instrumentation, biomarkers and their applications in diabetes and oncology, reproductive biology, contraceptive development and infertility management, molecular biology and tissue engineering, preventive and promotive health-care, comprehensive health information system for disease management, development of cancer drugs, biomedical implants and devices, brain research and cognitive neuroscience, and nanotechnology and microelectro-mechanical systems in medicine.

Medical Music Therapy

Music Therapy is the use of a selected music to produce the same vibrations of the body, played uninterrupted for a while, to obtain the desired effect. It is a radical branch which has started gaining pace in India. The Apollo Hospitals - Chennai has a music therapy wing in the name of ‘Prahalad’. Music can be used as therapy in hyperactive children, for speech fluency and stuttering, in cardiac problems and in the early stages of pregnancy.

Sports Medicine

Sports medicine is concerned with the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of sport-related injuries. Due to the huge vacuum exist in sports science and medicine, India needs top-flight trainers, physiotherapists, nutritionists, psychologists, physiologists and masseurs and biomechanics for keeping the athletes and sportsperson fighting fit.

Specialists in sports medicine are hired by the Sports Authority of India, and that of respective states, sports federations and large private hospitals and sports clubs and institutes.

How YOU take it!!!

        I am a JNMCian. Have been for the past three years and will remain one for the rest of my life. And I feel pride whenever I say this! True there have been times, moments, when my cynical attitude has taken over, leading to spurts of disgust and disappointment, but let's face it- even your parents might let you down at times. And a barrel as large as JNMC has to have its share of rotten apples, right?

        So what's wrong with us? Why have we let the small things in life affect us to the point where we have just stopped caring about the place we live in ? Why have we given up on making the place where we spend all our day, a better place to live in ? We all have our special moments at JNMC which we pack into our treasure chests with the grit and determination of pouring onto our grandchildren once we are "out of this juncture". Is that it?!? What about the rest of the batches who are yet to come n become a part of this institution? What will they get to see here? Broken chairs, scribbled desks, scratched walls, canteen turned into dustbin, shattered glass-panes ... can’t we prevent all this ... aren’t we mature and sensible enough to think about all this ... just imagine 

How can you make your clinic, your home, your hospital, your world -a better place to live in if you do not start with your alma mater?

        Today we have brilliant shining brains with us in our campus ... We have awesome artists -in the back benches as well as the front rows- painters, singers, athletes, debaters, musicians, actors and writers and all of them are equally good in academics but guess what-nobody cares, nobody has a sense of belonging towards the college these days.

        No wonder why my seniors keep whining about the "good old days".

     College life is not just about wooing girls and smoking cigarettes and going into syncope over an impending ward leaving exam or a pct exam. Stop thinking just about yourselves you idiots (stop being self-centerd). How about thinking of something else for a change?

        How about caring a little?

       Sure, you'll be playing havoc with your normal schedule in the beginning, sure it's not going to be easy, and yes-you better be prepared to withstand the backlash. But remember, the college does not belong to the authorities, it belongs to us. You may not get paid to pick up a Pepsi can and throw it into the dustbin but it will earn you a lot more- your self-respect(a sense of having fulfilled our duty).

        Do anything, anything at all, but all I have to say is make sure you have tears in your eyes when you bid adieu to these buildings. And they will cry for you too. So good luck and to the future JNMCians - welcome to the best college in the world!

Those four and a half‘

“Hum deewano ki kya hasti,

hain aaj yahan kal vahan chale,

masti ka aalam sath chala,

hum dhool udate kahin aur chale...”

I remember distinctly the first day on this campus; it was the 30th of June 2006 and guess what my first lesson in sawangi was SAVE WATER... IT IS PRECIOUS. because the tap would never work the way it should. It wasn’t the wardens' mistake though; it was not the 'water hour'.. heh heh

Our curriculum was to start on the Doctors' day. It was the first time I had put on An apron and dude it gave an entirely different feel. Yes, it was eternal, felt as if were already one. Those were the days when we started day dreaming of ending up like a Harrison, Davidson, Braunwald or maybe a Trehan, owning a multispecialty hospital of the the size of John Hopkins or Sloan Catterine ... don’t we all do it?!

Back to the hostel by five, entered mess, and felt some eyes menacingly staring at us. Seniors, but we used to call them "Sir", partially by respect, mostly by fear. By the way... the anti-ragging norms weren’t so strict back then ... Back then we used to dance without songs, entertain our "sirs" with dialogues like 'Basanti, in kutto ke saamne mat nachna'. Life wasn't so bad after all ... Infact, I thought, it was much more fun ... And ofcourse in the end, we kinda enjoying ragging.

Those were the days when we used to go to anatomy dissection hall, and feel like fainting, but never did due to fear of falling on the Cadever...! Travelling with bone sets was always fun, as they were useful in scaring the hell out of co passengers.

Then came GFC, the college looked like a  newlywed  bride, it seemed so, specially, as it was supposed to be a season of love for us, everybody putting on their best apparels, for there was so much to do in those 10 days , that we would spend the rest of the year in the hope of seeing the next GFC.

And then there is the JNMC library... in front of the lib there would always be a fashion ramp... With people like me spending more time analyzing  those who walk on it and rate them appropriately than studying inside..
Exam times are a sight to see in Sawangi. It's amazing and amusing, how suddenly the whole world appears to be so much interested in books. We scholars would spend our day and night studying just to avoid flunking. But eventually when the results were out  some dreams were shattered into million pieces and some were made. Frankly speaking to the remaining, just like me,it didn't really matters... Ha Ha Ha !!! 

A specialty of Sawangi is that, time passes so quickly that at the end of the session, you realise that dude an year has already passed since we got admitted here. And we always realise what semester we are in by the books we read. suddenly one day, we are the senior most batch. It felt as if it were just yesterday we were munching one of the michel and ravi bhau’s sandwiches at sagar for the very 1st time ...

Have heard people cry when they come here, heard them say in first year that they hate this place. I do not quite disagree with them, after all leaving home is a big deal ... However, after having studying in this place for 4.5 years, i myself say that i have fallen in love with Sawangi. College life, as our elders always told us, is the best part of your life ...

As an intern i now understand why ...

I realise the fear of losing my friends, my home of last four and half years, the dangerous aveneues which lie ahead where my friends would not always be there to buck me up, nobody to tell right from wrong. In real life, there are actually no second chances.

I would like to rewrite the lines to describe from what we were when we came to what we have become when we are leaving. Hope you will understand

Hum deewano ki ho gayi hasti,

they kal yahan aaj na jaane kidhar chale,

masti ka aalam tham sa gaya ,

hum dhool mein ud kahin aur chale…

Cheers to Sawangi….

Kumar Utsav , 2006 batch