Preparing for the All India Post Graduate Entrance examinations in Medicine and Dental Sciences (AIPGE) is one of the most strenuous tasks on the face of this earth. The competition is so fierce and the opportunities so few. It is estimated that, for every successful candidate , there are at least 1000 not so successful ones!! This means that, in a class of say 200 students (the usual strength of a batch in medical colleges every year) there might not be even one success. In this scenario any and every tip to prepare for the examinations will be very helpful. I invite my readers to send in their tips so as to benefit those not so successful ones with their careers.
Monday 15 June, 2009
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100 Free Anatomy MCQs with Explanatory Answers |
You can download 100 free Anatomy MCQS from the following link. The file is in PDF Format, you will need adobe acrobat reader to view it.
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Thursday 4 June, 2009
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MBA in Health Care Management |
One of my professors told me that not all of us from the MBBS batch will make it to a Post Graduate course, either by choice or due to various other reasons. He told me this 8 years ago and for some time I though I would fall in that unlucky/lucky group . So when even after a few attempts I could not get into a PG course, I started looking at other options out there. I noticed that an MBA can be equally fulfilling and there are wide range of courses in this too. One such course I was interested for sometime is the MBA in Health Care Management.
I believe there is a lot of scope for this career. I mean there are so many colleges and hospitals mushrooming in India. Also with the low Doctor to Patient population ratio in our country, this trend is likely to persist for many more years. Hence there will be a huge demand for Doctors with MBA degrees to work as health care innovators during this boom time.
A MBA degree can seem unattainable, especially if you are working day-to-day to meet the demands of clients, patients, employer and family. This specialized professional degree program helps you build your leadership and analytic skills while also building a solid professional network at a pace that is realistic and manageable.
With an MBA in Health Care Management, you'll have a good scope for careers in the following fields among many others that might come up:
- Biotechnology firms
- Medical device companies
- Health delivery systems
- Pharmaceutical companies
- Managed care organizations
- Consulting firms
- Government agencies
- Health technology vendors
At present Institute of Clinical Research (India) Health , one of the Divisions of ICRI (India) with the aims and objectives of promoting Healthcare education, training, research and consultancy has begun a course in MBA in Healthcare Management with specialization in Hospital Operations Management (HOM). More details about this course can be had at their website - MBA in Health Care Management ( 2 Year Full Time). This programme is recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC).
Admission Procedure:
The selection of individual student will undergo the following procedure:
- Written examination
- Personal interview - to assess personality attributes
- Communication skills
- Screening and selection of students based on merit.
Wednesday 3 June, 2009
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Download Dental Bytes 8th Ed Corrections for Free |
Dr.Suresh Shenvi Got the following ranks - KPET - 6th, PGI-18th, A.B.Shetty - 23rd, Manipal - 71, COMEDK - 55th and KAHE 43. He achieved this by going through various preparatory manuals and while at it found some corrections in the books. He has kindly shared these with us. Here are the links to the corrections he found in the Dental Bytes Books.
Click on the links -
- Free Dental Bytes 8th Ed Volume 1 Corrections Download
- Free Dental Bytes 8th Ed Volume 2 Corrections Download
Note please: It is advised that you do your own cross checks before conferring with the changes.
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Download Dental Pulse 3rd Ed Corrections for Free |
It is not advised to go through the MCQ books blindly without cross checking with the authoritative sources. Dr. Suresh Shenvi did a good cross check and has found some corrections in the popular Dental Pulse Dental PG Entrance series. He has kindly allowed us access to this file.
Click on the links -
- Free Dental Pulse 3d Ed Basic Sciences Corrections Download
- Free Dental Pulse 3d Ed Clinical Sciences Corrections Download
Note please: It is advised that you do your own cross checks before conferring with the changes.
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Download DenTest 4th Ed Corrections for Free |
It is not advised to go through the MCQ books blindly without cross checking with the authoritative sources. Dr. Suresh Shenvi did a good cross check and has found some corrections in the popular DenTest PG Entrance series. He has kindly allowed us access to this file.
Click on the link- Free DenTest 4th Ed Corrections Download - to download it to your hard drive and compare with the original book.
Note please: It is advised that you do your own cross checks before conferring with the changes.
Tags: MCQ, Suresh Shenvi, DenTest, PG Entrance
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Master of Public Health (Field Epidemiology): Admission Notice |
The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) started in 1963, is an apex institution under the Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Designated as the WHO Collaborative Centre for Epidemiology and Training in 1996, the Institute is involved at National and International levels in developing trained manpower and conducting operational studies.
The Institute, NICD invites applications from eligible candidates for MPH (FE) course scheduled to commence on 3 Aug. 2009. The course is affiliated to the GGSIP University.
Note: The course is not recognized by the Medical Council of India.
ELIGIBILITY: Candidates possessing MBBS degree from any recognized institution are eligible to apply for the course.
AGE:
The upper age limit is 45 years for in-service candidates and 35 years for others as on August 1, 2009. The upper age limit can be relaxed up to a maximum of 5 years in exceptional cases by the Admission Officer if he/she is satisfied with the merit of the case.
SEATS :
Intake will be limited to a maximum of 15 seats. (The matter regarding increase in
number of seats from 15 to 20 is under consideration of the University). Of these, two seats are
earmarked for World Health Organization sponsored fellows. For the remaining 13 seats, admission will be done on the basis of an entrance test. These 13 seats will be distributed in the ratio of 60% for In-Service Candidates (working in Health Institutions / Organizations in Central / State Government or Public Sector and having five years experience, of which at least three years should be in Public Health activities) and 40% for Direct Candidates.
In-Service Candidates shall, at the time of application or counseling for admission, furnish a letter from their employer that, if they are admitted, they would be relieved for two years for undertaking the course on a full-time basis at NICD. Reservation will be as per Government/University norms:
27% for Other Backward Classes; 15% for Scheduled Castes; 7.5% for Scheduled Tribes; 5% for
Defence category and 3% for Physically Handicapped Candidates. One seat, which is supernumerary in nature; is earmarked for Kashmiri migrants; for which the admission will be based on the Entrance Test.
SELECTION:
Selection will be on the basis of an Entrance Test to be conducted on 5 July 2009 (Sunday) in Delhi. WHO sponsored candidates are exempted from appearing in the entrance test and such candidates will be enrolled to the University directly. All other details are available in the Information Bulletin (click here - PDF File).
Application Form (click here - PDF File) and Information Bulletin for admission to MPH (FE) for the academic session 2009-10 will be available between 10.00 am and 5.00 pm on all working days from 4 June 2009 to 22 June 2009 on payment of Rs. 400/- (Four Hundred only) in the form of a Demand Draft in favour of “Director, National Institute of Communicable Diseases” payable at “Delhi”.
For obtaining the same by registered post, a Demand Draft of Rs. 450/- (Four Hundred and Fifty) in favour of “Director, National Institute of Communicable Diseases” payable at “Delhi” should be sent to the Administrative Officer (I), National Institute of Communicable Diseases, 22 Sham Nath Marg, Delhi-110054, so as to reach the Institute by 5.00 pm on 11 June 2009.
Application Form & Information Bulletin can also be downloaded from the website www.nicd.nic.in. Those who use downloaded Application Form must enclose a demand draft of Rs. 400/- (Rupees four hundred only), drawn in favour of “Director, National Institute of Communicable Diseases” payable at “Delhi” with the application form. They should write their name and address on the reverse of bank draft.
SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS:
Applications complete in all respects, should be submitted to the Director, National Institute of
Communicable Diseases on or before 5.00 pm on 22 June 2009. On the top of the envelope
containing the application form, the words, “APPLICATION FOR MPH (FE) 2009” must be
written.
Tuesday 26 May, 2009
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How I prepared for my MDS entrance exams ! |
Hi , this is Dr. Suresh Shenvi
Once you enter the best days of internship, after that hectic long BDS final year,with a dream of doing MDS in mind -you start looking for the books that need to be read?, wondering which coaching to join etc. Realizing that such facilities will be available only in metro cities you start thinking about dropping another year to join the coaching next year so that you can give your 100%. May be you are not wrong, but you have 10 precious month of internship right. So why don't you give a complete genuine try this year?
Now the big question is HOW?
I can tell you how I had prepared for the entrance exams during my internship. I had a good score during my BDS yrs, but I too was not sure about how to prepare for entrance for MDS, so I was no different from most of you guys.
I did ask some of my immediate seniors who got through various entrance exams before I set out on this journey, so apart from reading this post, you should also ask your seniors, as they will give you a better idea about your state entrance.
I am a firm believer of the theory that - It's better to follow the things said by Seniors who have got success than trying to find a new path on your own.
You have around 10 months from now.
There are two ways, either read theory or go for MCQs and explanations. I followed the MCQs and explanations path and this is the formula I followed:-
Your success can be divided in to
- 60% what you do during your internship
- 20% what you did in the past 4 years
- 10% luck
- and remaining 10% can't be achieved no matter what you read
How to achieve the first 60%?
- Start from the 2nd month of internship, or at least 10 months before exams.
All are at the same position when you start preparation, may be one or two percent are ahead of you, but its the not the start, but, the end which matters the most.
- You need to do the following books minimum
- Dental Pulse (Vol1 and Vol2) -6 times
- Gourishankar- 4 times
- Bhatia-3 times
- Neeraj Wadhwan-3 times
- Jatin kalra-2 times(optional)
- Duggal 2 times(optional)
- Dental Bytes-2 times
- Mudit khanna-3 times
- Dental Explore and books of aiims and aipg papers by Dr.Naveen Choudary - 3 times
- National Boards
I repeat, It's the minimum times ! If you start early you can finish the pulse 7-9 times for sure and rest of the books 2 times more than what I have mentioned.
You need to complete this task before December. In January you have only time to do Dental Pulse, the dental papers and just questions and answers from Mudit Khanna.
How to achieve the next 20%?
- If you have not read some good books in past then don't worry, read the explanations given in the mcq books
Order of reading
- Do Dental Pulse completely once, excluding the synopsis (usually takes 2 month at 1st reading). In the next sitting do a subject from Gourishankar followed by the same in Dental Pulse. Complete both books in this order but this time with synopsis.
- In the next reading do a subject from Bhatia and then same in Gourishankar followed by Dental Pulse. Make sure, You remember all repeated questions from Dental Pulse.
- So when you finish with Bhatia start reading Neeraj Wadhwan side by side. Complete one round again.
- So you have already done Dental Pulse 3 time now. Now you can start reading Mudit Khanna. One paper of Mudit Khanna takes around 10 hours, so do it in parts.
When you finish Mudit Khanna 1st round, you will have your AIIMS exams. So make sure u complete Mudit Khanna before November. Do Dental Pulse again in 15 days before AIIMS, and may be PGI in December. So when you come back revise Dental Pulse, Gourishankar and other books. However, only these two books are important for Karnataka state entrance exams apart from solving papers. And do Mudit Khanna also, maybe, only recent papers.
So in January do revision again for 15 days, and when you come back after AIPGE just do Dental Pulse and old papers. You can give State entrance, MAHE, KAHE, A.B.Shetty, and if you want Siddartha Dental college, Yennepoya, JSS , maybe SDM next time if it becomes deemed.
Read only question papers the day before the exam and sleep at least for 10 hours.
Don't get distracted from studies no matter what the situation is. Never worry about fees. Get the best rank first. You will have enough of time to think about fees later.
Joining a test series will give a added advantage too. It will help you to remember things which are repeated most often in exams, and that too will help to have that fear about exam, but the ultimate result depends on once own effort. Never follow the test series timetable for your preparation. You need to plan according to the time and number of revisions you need to do before giving the final exam..
Remember one thing, the key to success is to remember as many things as possible. Read for at least 10 hours every day when you complete internship. This will need a lot of dedication. Nobody knows that he will be the topper in the exams.
So Aim for AIPGE, but its the time, luck and hard work which can buy you that. For Karnataka state entrance exams you need to mug up, Dental Pulse, Gourishankar and recent papers.
But never try for short cuts. Reach till Mudit Khanna and I am sure u will best the exams.
Believe me, if you have failed once that does not mean you will fail again[:)]. You just have to find where you went wrong, what is important is giving 100% effort and not 99.99%.
Believe me, not because i got a seat, Because I followed what my seniors said to me and that's why I succeeded.
Got
KPET - 6th,
PGI-18th,
A.B.Shetty - 23rd,
Manipal - 71,
COMEDK - 55th and
KAHE 43.
Anyway did not get rank in AIPGE may be because i did not do national boards. But I guess my other ranks are worth it. As this was my First and Last attempt without spending another year for coaching.
I am not the only guy who has done this!!!
Who knows, You might be the topper next time
Read well.
Best of Luck
(This is just to help new aspirants and not for publicity and I am sure if you look , you will find many who have achieved more than this.. So find them out [:)] )
Dr.Suresh Shenvi
MDS Student
Department of Endodontics
College of Dental Sciences, Davangere.
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