Insights of Medical Students Regarding Medical Field as a Career Option- A Cross-Sectional Study at a Medical College in Maharashtra

Background: For policymakers, the socioeconomic position of medical students and their reasons for choosing a certain professional path are of utmost relevance. Present study was conducted to study various socioeconomic factors & reasons to choose medical field as career of choice among first year medical students. Materials & Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 185 first-year MBBS students at a tertiary health care teaching facility in Maharashtra. Data were collected using a pre-designed, validated questionnaire covering reasons for choosing medicine, socio-demographics, entrance exam preparation, and satisfaction levels. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS 20. Results: Out of 185 study subjects, 95 were male & 90 were female. Majority study subjects were having this as their own choice followed by many students chooses this carrier option to serve the poor people. Conclusion: The present study concludes that most of the study subjects choose MBBS as carrier to help poor. Also, most of study subject thinks this carrier can give themhigh professional status. Residence & socioeconomic status of study subject was statistically significant with gender. Most of study subjects are satisfied after choosing MBBS as carrier of choice

Video Games and Film: Why Were Video Games So Difficult to Adapt Into Film? And How Has That Been Changing

Part of the Session titled Home Screens

STUDY OF PREVALENCE OF DRY EYE IN DIABETES

BACKGROUND Diabetes causes blindness in 20-74 year old persons. Blindness in diabetic patients may due to cataract or retinopathy. Dry eye is one of the ocular surface problem increasingly observed in diabetic patients. This study was performed to assess the prevalence of dry eye syndrome in type 2 diabetic patients and their contributing factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was done between April 2016 to September 2016. 70 patients of type 2 diabetes diagnosed at Dr. Shankarrao Chavan Government Hospital, Nanded, were included in this study. Patients were assessed by questionnaire about other diseases and drugs. Dry eye syndrome was assessed with Tear Breakup Time (TBUT), Schirmer's test, lissamine green staining apart from routine ophthalmic examination. RESULTS Out of 60 patients, 32 (53%) suffer from dry eye syndrome. CONCLUSION Diabetes and dry eyes appear to have a common association. Further studies need to be undertaken to establish an aetiologic relationship. As routine dilated fundus examination is an integral part of evaluation of diabetic patients in ophthalmic clinics, examination for dry eye should also be an integral part of the assessment of diabetic eye disease

A study on assessment of sleep quality amongst patients attending a rural hospital in Kancheepuram, Tamilnadu, India

Background: Sleep is the state, in which the organism temporarily, partially and periodically loses its interaction with surroundings at different intensities and which can be reversed with stimuli. Sleep deficiency in sleep is linked with many physical ailments. The present study was aimed at assessing the sleep quality of patients attending the outpatient department of a rural health centre in Kacheepuram, Tamilnadu.Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted amongst patients attending the OPD of rural health center of a Medical College Hospital at Kancheepuram. A pretested semi structured questionnaire based on Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) was used to collect data. Data were entered on and analyzed using Microsoft excel spread sheet.Results: Of the 150 participants who participated in the study 87 (58%) were males and 63 (42%) were females. In the present study there were 80 participants (53.3%) under the age of 40 years and 70 participants (46.7%) over the age of 40 years. Of the 150 participants 85.3% of them had a sleeping time &lt;8 hrs a day and a minority of them 14.7% had a sleeping time of &gt;8 hrs a day. The sleep quality of females was slightly better (54%) when compared to males. It was also observed that only 10 (9.7%) of the skilled workers had good quality of sleep when compared to unskilled workers.Conclusions: Our present study shows, the prevalence of poor-quality sleep was 31.3%. Various factors like gender, occupation and education were found to positively associated with poor quality sleep.</jats:p

Synthesis of Tri-, Hexa-, and Nonasaccharide Subunits of the Atypical O-Antigen Polysaccharide of the Lipopolysaccharide from Danish <i>Helicobacter </i><i>pylori</i> Strains

Synthesis of trisaccharide repeating unit, →3)-α-d-Rhap-(1→2)-α-d-Manp3CMe-(1→3)-α-l-Rha p-(1→, and its dimeric hexa- and trimeric nonasaccharide subunits of the atypical O-antigen polysaccharide of the lipopolysaccharide from Danish H. pylori strains D1, D3, and D6 has been accomplished. Successful synthesis of the hexasaccharide and the nonasaccharide was possible by dimerization and trimerization of the suitably protected trisaccharide repeating unit, in which three monosaccharide moieties were arranged in a proper order by placing the sterically demanding 3-C-methyl-d-mannose moiety in between d- and l-rhamnoses. Key steps include the coupling of three monosaccharide moieties and dimerization and trimerization of the trisaccharide unit by glycosylations employing the 2‘-carboxybenzyl glycoside method. Also presented is a method for the synthesis of the novel branched sugar, 3-C-methyl-d-mannose moiety by elaboration of its equatorial hydroxyl and axial methyl groups at C-3‘ in the disaccharide stage

Stereoselective Direct Glycosylation with Anomeric Hydroxy Sugars by Activation with Phthalic Anhydride and Trifluoromethanesulfonic Anhydride Involving Glycosyl Phthalate Intermediates

An efficient direct one-pot glycosylation method with anomeric hydroxy sugars as glycosyl donors employing phthalic anhydride and triflic anhydride as activating agents has been developed. Thus, highly stereoselective β-mannopyranosylations were achieved by the reaction of 2,3-di-O-benzyl-4,6-O-benzylidene-d-mannopyranose (2) with phthalic anhydride in the presence of DBU at room temperature followed by sequential addition of DTBMP and Tf2O and glycosyl acceptors to the reaction mixture at −78 °C in one-pot. Stereoselective α-glucopyranosylations with 2,3-di-O-benzyl-4,6-O-benzylidene-d-glucopyranose (25) and other glycosylations with glucopyranoses and mannopyranoses having tetra-O-benzyl- and tetra-O-benzoyl protecting groups were also possible by utilizing the present one-pot glycosylation protocol. The possible mechanism for the β-mannosylation with 2 was proposed based on the NMR study, in which α-mannosyl phthalate 55α and α-mannosyl triflate 59 were detected as intermediates. The versatility and efficiency of the present glycosylation methodology, especially those of the β-mannopyranosylation protocol, were readily demonstrated by the efficient synthesis of protected β-(1→4)-d-mannotriose 62 and β-(1→4)-d-mannotetraose 67 with perfect β-stereoselectivity