n Interesting reply to my article published with title Falling standards in medical microbiology In India Medical Times Monday, August 11, 2014
Comment by Rajwardhan Yadav
2014-10-11 02:16:11
Dear Dr. Rao,
I appreciate you taking the time to write your opinion. Your honesty is humbling. We are facing with a scare of Ebola in the US and the media is going bonkers with the coverage. One death to date in Dallas and the entire town is on the edge. The big wigs at the CDC and Department of Public Health are having sleepless nights. Microbiologists and infectious disease specialist are providing their opinions through most of the media outlets. You have brought up two main issues, first being the age old, stereotyped and non-pragmatic education (microbiology) system that exists in most of the medical schools in India and the second being the if an individual infected with Ebola were to come to one of the metropolitan cities of in India and transmit the virus to various individuals he comes in contact with and the chain reaction that it would set in, is unimaginable. I wonder what can be done about these issues. The regulatory body overlooking medical education in India is in the news only when the Courts give directives and when disproportionate assets are recovered from the official (s)/aficionados. It just appears that there is no accountability. Dr. Rao, people like you with a conscience need to advice how to make subjects like microbiology attractive and lure the bright medical graduates towards the field. Microbes are evolving, novel mutations are resulting in antigenic shifts and drifts. Genomic exchanges are taking place within and across species and serotypes. When evolution is occurring even among viruses and bacteria why is so difficult for our MCI to evolve. Intelligence and brightness is inherent within the students who join our medical schools. We have to provide the optimal learning environment for them to flourish. A start that comes to my mind is to provide good training to the faculty who teach our students. In today’s world of molecular and personalized medicine we need to expose our students to the tools of modern medicine and how they can utilize them to provide better health care to the Indian people. Just to end, I hope the Indian government has a plan in place to screen individuals coming out of West Africa otherwise we are going to have a public health crisis on our hands in the subcontinent. After reading your opinion I just had to applaud you for the candidness in which you expressed your thoughts and also write a few of my thoughts. Good luck.
Raj Yadav MD, PhD
Division of Rheumatology
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven CT
I WISH MANY TEACHERS AND DOCTORS TO READ THE INTERESTING COOMENTS BY RAJ YADAV PhD it just lies with us to make the matters interesting regarding the teaching the infectious diseases to our students I reality what the virus we take either Ebola, Zika we can prevent rather than cure the problem
Dr.T.V.Rao MD Professor of Microbiology Freelance writer
Comment by Rajwardhan Yadav
2014-10-11 02:16:11
Dear Dr. Rao,
I appreciate you taking the time to write your opinion. Your honesty is humbling. We are facing with a scare of Ebola in the US and the media is going bonkers with the coverage. One death to date in Dallas and the entire town is on the edge. The big wigs at the CDC and Department of Public Health are having sleepless nights. Microbiologists and infectious disease specialist are providing their opinions through most of the media outlets. You have brought up two main issues, first being the age old, stereotyped and non-pragmatic education (microbiology) system that exists in most of the medical schools in India and the second being the if an individual infected with Ebola were to come to one of the metropolitan cities of in India and transmit the virus to various individuals he comes in contact with and the chain reaction that it would set in, is unimaginable. I wonder what can be done about these issues. The regulatory body overlooking medical education in India is in the news only when the Courts give directives and when disproportionate assets are recovered from the official (s)/aficionados. It just appears that there is no accountability. Dr. Rao, people like you with a conscience need to advice how to make subjects like microbiology attractive and lure the bright medical graduates towards the field. Microbes are evolving, novel mutations are resulting in antigenic shifts and drifts. Genomic exchanges are taking place within and across species and serotypes. When evolution is occurring even among viruses and bacteria why is so difficult for our MCI to evolve. Intelligence and brightness is inherent within the students who join our medical schools. We have to provide the optimal learning environment for them to flourish. A start that comes to my mind is to provide good training to the faculty who teach our students. In today’s world of molecular and personalized medicine we need to expose our students to the tools of modern medicine and how they can utilize them to provide better health care to the Indian people. Just to end, I hope the Indian government has a plan in place to screen individuals coming out of West Africa otherwise we are going to have a public health crisis on our hands in the subcontinent. After reading your opinion I just had to applaud you for the candidness in which you expressed your thoughts and also write a few of my thoughts. Good luck.
Raj Yadav MD, PhD
Division of Rheumatology
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven CT
I WISH MANY TEACHERS AND DOCTORS TO READ THE INTERESTING COOMENTS BY RAJ YADAV PhD it just lies with us to make the matters interesting regarding the teaching the infectious diseases to our students I reality what the virus we take either Ebola, Zika we can prevent rather than cure the problem
Dr.T.V.Rao MD Professor of Microbiology Freelance writer
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