Basic Life support is that level of medical care which deals with providing victims of life threatening illnesses or injuries immediate medical attention before full medical care can be provided at the hospital. The aim of this workshop was to make medical undergraduates understand the concept, principles and techniques of … Continue Reading

The afternoon session of the first day of IGCLA on September 15, 2016 began with a short demonstration of basic suturing skills in the Anatomy Dissection Hall. Registered students were divided into groups of 12 and assigned to a senior member of the Cutting Edge club. In this demonstration, the … Continue Reading

Among the workshops organized during the second half of day 1 – IGCLA 2016, ‘Core strengthening’ commenced at 2.15pm at the Futsal turf, Marena sports complex. The workshop was conducted by Dr. Fiddy Davis (Department of Exercise and Sports sciences, SOAHS) with the aid of his colleagues. The delegates were … Continue Reading

Echocardiography, is an imaging study of the heart, where ultrasonic waves are used to detect structural or functional abnormalities in the working of the heart. This fascinating technique and its interpretation was made easy for students by Dr. Krishnananda Nayak, SOAHS. He also tipped the students on how to read … Continue Reading

ELISA is an indispensable tool if we, as doctors, want to correctly diagnose a variety of viral, parasitic or spirochaetal infections. Hence, the workshop on ELISA, conducted in the Department of Microbiology, was immensely beneficial to all those who attended it. Dr. Renuka, Department of Microbiology, kickstarted the workshop with … Continue Reading

The emergency medicine workshop began at 9:00 am at the health sciences library. It was conducted by Dr.Naman Agarwal, AIIMS. It was attended by a group of nearly fifty people consisting of second and third year medical students hailing from KMC as well as other medical colleges. The event began … Continue Reading

Cutting edge members from 7^th semester took charge of the fundoscopy, otoscopy and urinary catheterization workshop. After an initial briefing that started at 9.30 am, the students were divided into four groups and they took turns learning to catheterize the bladder in male and female dummies, and to use … Continue Reading

The afternoon of 15th September, the first day of IGCLA saw a number of workshops being held. One among these was the workshop on Gel Electrophoresis conducted in co-operation with Department of Biochemistry, KMC Manipal. The workshop was attended by over 40 students from a number of colleges. Participants were … Continue Reading