Dr. Vikram .R. Lotwala

Proposed POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION EXECUTIVE SUMMARY PROPOSED POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION, MCI MCI specific objectives on Post graduation are to make Post graduate medical education more relevant to the country’s needs by making it more relevant, skill oriented and at the same time ensure adequate career options for medical graduates. It addressed these objectives by the following: 1. Assessing needs of different courses 2. Restoring importance of internship 3. Restructuring & shortening PG courses to increase options after qualification 4. Offering multiple paths of career advancement 5. Suggesting uniformity of nomenclature and duration 6. Increasing PG seats for increasing number of teachers and specialists 7. Providing service of postgraduates to smaller centers 8. Restructuring the PG examination pattern to emphasize skill development & introducing continuous internal assessment. 9. Emphasizing research in the Academic str...

The Medical Council of India ( MCI) has released a much-awaited reform document that proposes major changes to the existing MBBS curriculum, which they think is not good enough to produce competent doctors. Academicians have said this is the first time in decades that the country with the highest number of medical colleges in the world has taken a step towards changing the face of its medical education. Some of the proposed changes-reducing the duration of the course from four and a half to four years-has already created flutter in the medical community. However, doing away with examinations in the first three years of the MBBS course is being considered the most crucial reform If implemented, students may have to appear for an exam only at the end of four years and another after the completion of a one-year internship. The MCI's Undergraduate Education Working Group has asked medical colleges and stake holders from across the country to provide feedback and sugge...

Major Laishram Jyotin Singh , an army doctor who died fighting a suicide bomber in Kabul, was Wednesday conferred the country's highest peacetime gallantry medal, Ashok Chakra , posthumously at the 62nd Republic Day parade here. A family member received the medal from President Pratibha Patil , who conferred the honour at the start of the parade at Rajpath in the heart of the capital. Born in 1972, Singh was commissioned in the Army Medical Corps in February 2003. He was granted permanent commission in April 2007 and posted with the Indian embassy in Kabul in February last year. Thirteen days after his posting, a guarded residential compound attached to but away from the embassy -- housing six army medical officers, four para-medics and two army officers -- was raided by suicide bombers. A terrorist killed three security guards and then entered the compound to kill survivors. He opened Kalshnikov gunfire into the individual rooms and hurled grenades. In the ...

The 73 Best Lessons I’ve Learned for Leadership Success in Business and Life 
By Robin Sharma, author of the international bestseller “The Leader Who Had No Title” Hi There, I’m skiing in South America but have also been doing a lot of thinking. I wanted to thank you for all your kind support of my work. So I have summarized the 73 best ideas/insights/lessons I’ve learned for winning in business and life below. I hope they help you. And I hope you’ll share them with others who will benefit from them. Again, thanks for supporting my mission to help people in organizations around the world Lead Without a Title. I’m grateful. 

 
Robin 1. You can really Lead Without a Title. 2. Knowing what to do and not doing it is the same as not knowing what to do. 3. Give away what you most wish to receive. 4. The antidote to stagnation is innovation. 5. The conversations you are most resisting are the conversations you most need to be having. 6. Leadership is no longer about position – bu...