The Medical Curriculum and AI – interesting article

The Medical Curriculum and AI – interesting article

I recently came across this interesting article: Artificial intelligence in healthcare: Should it be included in the medical curriculum? A students’ perspective The authors discuss how the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly growing in medicine, as in all fields. While AI is around 65 years old now, it is paradoxically still in its infancy in academics, and if anything, still more in medicine. They have discussed the need to introduce the knowledge of AI in the medical curriculum right from the Undergraduate days. They explain it with an incident of how one of the authors - a UG…
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AIIMS Kalyani introduces our talk on Literature Searching in its Foundation Course for I MBBS

AIIMS Kalyani introduces our talk on Literature Searching in its Foundation Course for I MBBS

The Foundation Course for I MBBS students – conducted by every medical college since the year 2019 – has an objective of sensitizing fresh medical students with the required knowledge and skills for their professional environment. It stresses on the medical graduate preparing to be a lifelong learner and developing strong leadership and communication skills.   In November, we received a call from AIIMS Kalyani – a medical college in the Eastern part of India, asking if we could deliver a lecture for their newly admitted I MBBS Students. We were delighted to take up this and I gave a…
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Sharing a donor story – S Viswanathan

Sharing a donor story – S Viswanathan

Just a month after we shared a donor story, we are lucky to get another one to share with you. Again an old friend – S Viswanathan was my husband’s colleague for several years and his family and ours still share a great rapport. Viswanathan – better known as Vishy amongst our group, has been a regular donor and often been one when I put out specific appeals. Every time we got a donation from him, we felt so good! Vishy has been another “sounding board” just like Raman – who I wrote about earlier. When I asked Vishy what made…
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