AN INFORMATIVE WEEK FULL OF FUN AND LEARNING CAME TO AN END WITH ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TOPICS INFECTION CONTROL AND ANTIBIOTICS FOLLOWED BY YET ANOTHER INTERESTING ONE: RESEARCH SPIRAL.
THE SEMINAR ON INFECTION CONTROL WAS TAKEN BY DR VISHAKHA DEVRUKHKAR GIVING THE NEWLY APPOINTED INTERNS INSIGHTS OVER HOW INFECTION CONTROL INCLUDING BASIC HAND WASHING TECHNIQUES, GLOVING, USING OF MOUTH MASKS AND HEAD CAPS IS SIMPLE, YET OF GREAT IMPORTANCE IN EVERYDAY CLINICAL PRACTICE. ALSO, THE IMPORTANCE OF POST EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS AND PROTOCOL FOR NEEDLE PRICK INJURY WAS SHARED IN GREAT DETAIL.
NEXT, AN INTERACTIVE SEMINAR ON ANTIBIOTICS WAS TAKEN BY DR ADIL GANDEVIVALA WHERE HE ENLIGHTENED THE INTERNS OVER THE PRECISE AND OPTIMUM USE OF ANTIBIOTICS AS AN ADJUNCT TO THE PROVIDED DENTAL TREATMENT. ‘ANTIBIOTICS SHOULD BE PRESCRIBED ONLY WHEN REQUIRED’ WAS AN IMPORTANT TAKE HOME MESSAGE FOR EVERYONE PRESENT. THE MOST COMMONLY FACED SITUATION WITH THE MOST SUITABLE DRUGS TO BE PRESCRIBED ALONG WITH ITS DOSES WERE PARTICULARLY DISCUSSED.
THE SECOND HALF OF THE DAY WAS SCHEDULED FOR CDE BY THE DEPT. OF PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY ON RESEARCH FOR UNDERGRADUATES. GUEST SPEAKERS DR PRADNYA KAKODKAR AND DR NITIN GUPTA FROM D. Y. PATIL, PIMPRI WERE WELCOMED BY OUR HONOURABLE DEAN MAM DR SABITA RAM BY PRESENTING A SAPLING EACH. DR PRADNYA KAKODKAR, A VERY ENTHUSIASTIC SPEAKER LED THE PROGRAM BY EXPLAINING THE KEY TERMS OF THE SUBJECT AND THE RESEARCH PYRAMID WITH KEEN INTEREST. TO TAKE IT FURTHER, DR NITIN GUPTA GRABBED THE ATTENTION OF THE AUDIENCE BY MAKING THE MONOTONOUS SUBJECT VERY INTERESTING. CO-RELATING WITH THE UNDERGRADUATES PRESENT, HE EXPLAINED HOW CURIOUS, INQUISITIVE AND MINDFUL QUESTIONS CAN HELP FIND RESEARCH TOPICS AND FORM PROPER QUESTIONNAIRES FOR THE SAME. THE SPEAKERS MOTIVATED THE UNDERGRADUATES TO TAKE UP TOPICS ON RESEARCH THAT WOULD ENHANCE THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND HELP THEM FIND ANSWERS. THEY ALSO ASSURED THEIR FULL SUPPORT AND HELP, IF AND WHEN REQUIRED.
WITH THIS A WEEK LONG PROGRAM OF INTERESTING SEMINARS AND RESOURCEFUL LECTURES CAME TO AN END AND THE INTERNS WERE BOOSTED HIGH ENOUGH TO START WITH THE NEW MILESTONE OF THEIR LIFE: INTERNSHIP AND CLINICS.