What good is knowledge, if it's not passed on without loss? And what good is information, if it's not used for transformation?
Pranav S., seventh semester MBBS student at SMIMS has won the Best Paper Award in the Communicable Diseases category at the third National Conference on Students Medical Research held at Trivandrum on the 8th and 9th of January 2010. He presented a paper on the ‘Perceived Stigma and Discrimination among People Living with HIV / AIDS attending Snehatheeram Rehabilitation Programme’. The other students in the study group are Anju Madhu, Ammu J, Aswathy Sasikumar, Prabha M and Nishanthi S. The group was guided by Dr. Anoop Lal, Assistant Professor of Community Medicine.
The Abstract of the study can be found here.
Attended World AIDS Day Comemmoration at Trivandrum on 29-11-2009, 4pm. This was arranged by the Mar Thomma Church. Vijayakumar, Minister of Law, Kerala Satae, who was the chief guest, is seen lighting the lamp.
Went to a Tribal Settlement Colony (Killikadu) to do the pilot study of the Tribal Health Project. Used the community jeep to go along with 5 MBBS students. Forester Nallasiva Moorthy accompanied us. Did the trial of the questionnaire in 6 households.
My passion is exploring better methods of communication in the field of Medicine. I do this by trying out innovative educational tools, creating medical videos and animations and by developing high quality medical websites. I also teach Medicine in India.
