Namcolians- Nawaz Sharif Medical College.: Fourth Year MBBS

Saturday, 18 June 2016

Fourth Year UHS all study guide

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Thursday, 18 June 2015

Seminar on “Dengue Fever and Its Prevention” organized by Nawaz Sharif Medical College,UOG

The Deptt. ov Community Medicine, Nawaz Sharif Medical College,UoG organized a seminar on “Dengue Fever and Itz Prevention” on Monday, June 15, 2015. Dis seminar waz presided over by the Principal Nawaz Sharif Medical College, Prov Doctor Sajjad Hussain, and the Dean, Faculty ov Sciences, Prov Doctor M.Faheem Malik waz the guest ov honour. Among the speakers were Assistant Provessors Medicine, Doctor Zameer Butt & Doctor Zahid Azam Chaudhary. Doctor Abid Nazir gave a presentation on Dengue Fever in the Start ov dis seminar. Doctor Sajjad said that diseases could b prevented through collective efforts ov all. He said that we should promote the cause ov the government for prevention ov dengue fever sincerely and effectively. He said that teachers and students were the best agents ov awareness in society. He waz ov the view that hygiene and sanitation were first steps 2 avoid diseases. He informed that medical intelligence and medical surveillance were taught as regular subjects in some countries ov the world for taking preventive measures 2 control diseases in particular regions. Doctor Faheem said that Allah Almighty had created cure along with disease; but the best cure is prevention. He said that dengue waz a fatal disease but we could control it through wide awakening ov society and adopting hygienic parameters. He said that cleanliness waz considered a basic element in Islam. He emphasized upon dis aspect ov religion for controlling dengue. Doctor Abid Nazir, performing as the modera2r ov dis seminar, gave a comprehensive presentation on dengue and itz prevention. He said that challenges introduce the nations 2 discover solutions ov different problems. He said that dengue waz an age old disease; it waz a special type ov fever. He suggested that capacity building ov community waz effective 2 fight against dengue. Doctor Zahid Azam gave presentation on “Prevention ov Dengue.” He said that dengue mosqui2 waz bred on clean stagnant water; we should prevent from gatherng water in the form ov pool in our houses. Doctor Zameer Butt shed light upon the clinical aspects ov Dengue fever in his presentation and said, “There iz a rising trend ov Dengue fever becoz ov climatic changes nd mass travelling. Dengue iz usualy a continuous fever. It harms our legs, joints and lumbar spine.” He mentioned some general symp2ms ov dengue fever.

An Awareness Walk waz also organized at the end ov dis seminar under the direction ov Doctor Sajjad Hussain, Doctor Faheem Malik and the Direc2r SSC Mr Muhaamd Yaqoob. A large No. ov students along with the faculty attended dis walk carrying placards, posterz and bannerz. The participants ov dis walk made the vow that they will spread information about dengue fever and itz preventive measures among the masses as their colective responsibility.

Sunday, 17 May 2015

Research Guidelines For MBBS students.

Mostly this topic remains unexplained & untaught in our medical Colleges, although with our existing resources, we cannot even imagine to compete with the rest of the world, however, hospitals like Shaukat Khanum, Agha Khan do have the research requirements & they do help you out to join them for research electives.

Yet, Namcolians are ignorant of the word "Research", despite some study taught by Department of community medicine that, even in the remotest of chances, doesn't qualify as a true research valid for publication. And if you didn't learn to use SPSS there, I can feel sorry for you People.

Having said that, I will go stepwise for the research methodology that anyone at any college can apply to start a project that can be published in some good journal.

Ø First step in research process is making a team of dedicated people, who are actually "dedicated", there will be lots of offers of benefits provided in exchange of name in the papers, but trust me, thats the most unfair thing one can do with his own efforts.

Ø Once you have the Group that won’t back down, the second step is "ideas collection", as I said, everyone needs to work, so everyone needs to collect ideas, not just one student. Bring a fresh good idea. Bring something, anything, steal someone's idea, do whatever, but don't ask anyone else, no one is going to give you a prepared supper for you to feast on, and that’s quite understandable.There is very little data in whole Punjab or even Pakistan. For a good idea, go to internet, and browse through the topics on any site, for example “Pubmed or Medline”. There are number of articles for every disease, with many of those those which you can apply at your Teaching Hospital. Find a topic related to a medium disease that can easily find in your Hospital. Search he the diseases on these sites and you will get ideas. Read the articles, and then find there practical nature, find out what good they will do if done at your hospital or college, find out what impact they have if they are conducted as study. Find a rarity, but not a rarity that has so rare patients that you cannot even find patients. Keep things simple.

Ø The third step after you have an idea is forming a closed questionnaire. By that, I mean go through the article related similar papers and find what were the basic findings by those papers. e.g. Almost all the papers start with demographic data of age, gender and other similar but relevant parameters. Go through the similar papers published, make a list of questions. The basic question is the idea of the study, i.e. suppose you are doing a study on post-op survival after a particular operation. The basic question is "Status of the patient" and options are A) Alive and B) Dead.

This question defines the dependent variable in your questionnaire on which the other independent variables will influence. e.g. effect of a particular complication on survival.

By forming a closed questionnaire, I don't mean to do stupid surveys (although they are good to start with) but surveys are public opinions that form the lowest type of research a person does, consequently, there is not much credit you gonna get out of that. However, questionnaire here means you devise a form on which you can note your findings, closed means that you choose the answer options for questions, like in the above example is either alive or dead, there is no third option, however, you might wanna add more options in age like <10>

After devising a questionnaire, you should show it to some reliable but experienced person who will tell you what changes you need to make it better. But thats an option only for the beginners, not for people who already have a couple of papers at their hands.

Ø The next step is "getting the questionnaire filled". Now this is the real hard work, you need to do it sincerely and consistently. Auto-fill options simply don't work, SPSS will give you the proof that if you fill the data yourself, there is no means you'll get reliable results in terms of statistics, thats why there is the concept of randomization.

There are two ways to get the questionnaires filled, prospective and retrospective. Both are acceptable methods, however, the retrospective ones saves a lot of time and efforts. Prospective means you go to the patients' beds and ask them questions as well as note data from their files, and it is also better in sense that you don't miss anything. Retrospective on the other hand means you go to the files section of the wards, get the records out of tons on dust, and sit there in the back rooms full of rats and mites, but rapidly take out the files of the disease of interest and note the data on the questionnaires formed by you. But despite quicker way of data collection, you'll have to compromise at several options that won't be mentioned by some doctor who was doing a special Sunday duty and was too tired to note all the findings. But that's also acceptable, as long as you mention at the end in your manuscript that how many patients data was insignificant in your findings.

Note the data as it is, do not try to manipulate it or make it significant yourself if it is not, you are not there to prove anything right or wrong that nature controls, just keep it the way it is.