| Friday, Sep 19, 2008
Varsity convocation tomorrow
Chennai: A total of 11,371 medical undergraduates from M.B.B.S.,
dental, Indian medicine and paramedical courses will receive
their degree certificates on Saturday, at the 18th convocation
of Dr. MGR Medical University.
About 59 per cent of them are women, Vice-Chancellor Meer Mustafa
Hussain said at a press conference here on Thursday. A total
of 58 gold and 17 silver medals and 38 cash prizes will be awarded
to 62 meritorious candidates.
Candidates who have completed Ph.D., D.M., M.Ch., post-graduate
degree and diploma courses will also receive the certificates
on that day from Governor S.S. Barnala. Vice-President Hamid
Ansari will participate in the function.
“This year women have taken the lead in winning medals.
The winners are from PSG Medical College, Coimbatore, Madras
Medical College (Obstetrics and Gynaecology) and Thanjavur Medical
College (M.S. General Surgery). Usually women do not opt for
general surgery but this candidate has even excelled in the
subject and won medals,” Dr. Mustafa noted. A male student
from CMC, Vellore, has bagged two gold and a silver medal and
two cash prizes.
At the convocation, eight senior doctors, including orthopaedist
A. Devadoss, diabetologist V. Seshaiah, geriatrician R. Sivaraman,
orthodontist J.G. Kannappan, cardiologist T. Sathyamurthy, ENT
specialist Mohan Kameswaran, besides retired professors T.V.
Devarajan (medicine) and K. Chinnaswamy (pharmacy) will be conferred
the honorary Doctor of Science degree, Dr. Mustafa said.
Among a slew of programmes sanctioned for the university is
a fund of Rs. 4 crore to upgrade the Department of Transfusion
Medicine.
The university is also planning to start several master’s
and diploma courses in various subjects from the current academic
year.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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