Teaching Program for PGs
Mar 2009

Seminar (Thursday)

Date / Topic for seminar / PG / Moderator / Date of draft submission
5-Mar-09 / Environmental health during disasters / Dr. Shib / Dr. AM Mehendale / 19-Feb-09
12-Mar-09 / Disaster management in India / Dr. Abhijit / Dr. Savinder Kaur / 26-Feb-09
19-Mar-09 / Quality Assurance / Dr. Priti / Dr. Chetna Maliye / 5-Mar-09
26-Mar-09 / Newer Vaccine: Hib, Pneumococcus / Dr. Shib / Dr. Amol Dongre / 12-Mar-09

Journal Club (Tuesday) – Please choose Randomized Controlled Trial/ Community Trial for journal club this month

Date / PG / Moderator / Date of article selection / Date of draft submission
3-Mar-09 / Dr. Manoj / Dr. D Dambhare / 11-Feb-08 / 17-Feb-08
10-Mar-09 / Dr. Rakesh / Dr. Amol Dongre / 18-Feb-08 / 24-Feb-08
17-Mar-09 / Dr. Manish / Dr. Chetna Maliye / 25-Feb-08 / 2-Mar-08
24-Mar-09 / Dr. Manoj / Dr. Savinder Kaur / 3-Mar-08 / 9-Mar-08
31-Mar-09 / Dr. Rakesh / Dr. D Dambhare / 10-Mar-08 / 16-Mar-08

Epidemiology and Biostatistics Skills Session (Mondays)

Exercises on Epidemiology and Biostatistics skills to be given; PGs to come prepared on the topic

Date / Topic
2-Mar-09 / Sensitivity, Specificity, PPV, NPR, LR
9-Mar-09 / Standard Deviation, Standard Error, Confidence Interval
16-Mar-09 / Chi Square Test (McNemar Test)
23-Mar-09 / Z Test and T test (Paired and Unpaired)
30-Mar-09 / Kappa Test

Medico-social case studies in G-OPD (Wednesday)

PGs to discuss with faculty members posted in G-OPD on the particular day

Please take families from the community this month

Date / Type of case to be taken / PG
04-Mar-09 / A family with a child below 5 years – focus on MCH / Dr. Priti
11-Mar-09 / A family with an elderly – focus on geriatric problems / Dr. Abhijit
18-Mar-09 / A family with a case of tuberculosis / Dr. Shib
25-Mar-09 / A family with a case of Non-communicable disease / Dr. Priti

Exposure visits (Wednesday)

On demand from PGs

Random Public Health Pearls (Friday)

Discussion on randomly allocated topics

Date / PG
Mar 06, 13, 20, 27 / All PGs


Note:

i)  Post-graduate students please note that all the drafts should be shown to the moderator faculty before the due date given here.

ii)  We will not postpone a session if it is not ready on the scheduled date. In that case, all your efforts to prepare the session will be waste. If any topic is not ready for presentation on the due date, it will be clearly mentioned in the logbook of the PGs.

iii)  If a particular session is postponed due to some other program in the department without any fault of the PGs, the PG may be told to present the session on any day after the due date. If the PG fails to do so, it will be considered that the PG was not ready on the given day and the same will be mentioned in the logbook of the PGs.

iv)  If you are presenting a seminar, you are supposed to be the expert in the topic on that. So, go for in-depth study on the topic. Consult the reference books. Think of every minor to major questions that can be asked on the topic and prepare yourself for the same. You should consult your moderator at least 3 times; first, to ask from where to study on the topic; second, to show the draft presentation at least two weeks before the scheduled date and ask for his/her suggestions for improvement; third, show him/her your final presentation including the changes s/he has suggested at least one week prior to the presentation. You may need to meet the moderator more often if there is a need.

v)  Maintain the system of presentation of short topics during the journal clubs. This would be the responsibility of the presenter of the journal club. Please get the short topics decided at least 4-5 days in advance before the presentation so that others get enough time for preparing their topic.

vi)  The number of slides should be restricted to 10 for a Journal Club and 20 for a Seminar and 5 for short topics.

vii)  Please come with a notebook and a calculator for Epidemiology and Biostatistics session. Please also bring a laptop (if you have) for a group of 3 PGs.

viii)  Exposure visits will only be done on demand from the PGs. For this, they should meet Dr. Subodh after making consensus among themselves

(Subodh S Gupta)