August 2016
AMCON
Adrenaline Medical Conference 2016 Adit Desai & Chinmay Jani
MSAI - India
aditdesai15@gmail.com
Adrenaline Medical Conference (AMCON) 2016 held at Smt. N.H.L. Municipal Medical College, Ahmedabad, was the biggest gathering of the entire medical sorority of India. With a total of over 660 delegates attending the conference from across the country AMCON went on to be the largest national medical conference of the year organized by the students, for the students. . The dictum of AMCON ’16 being exploring new horizons, it provided a platform for both, undergraduate and post-graduate students to present their research studies as either oral or poster presentations. An overwhelming response of more than 200 abstracts was received in a span of only a few weeks. Unique workshops were conducted in association with the Academy of Traumatology (A.O.T.) of India, which included six different skill stations: Spinal immobilization , Shock, FAST, Chest tube drainage, CPR, and Airway management. Another workshop included skill stations on suturing and ECG. These workshops help in enhancing a student’s skill, giving them an earlier hands-on experience, which will only help them to become better physicians in future. Avant- garde ideas like Model WHO and the National Medical Quiz were conducted for the first time ever at a medical conference, which is what helped AMCON make its mark among various other medical conferences in the country. At this one-of-its kind debating session of Model WHO, 16 participants were divided into 8 teams, each team comprising 2 delegates representing the country they were allotted. The countries of the committee were Brazil, Germany, Japan, India, Russia, Turkey, Syria and the United States of America. The topic of discussion for the session was the Syrian refugee crisis. The response received for the Model WHO was phenomenal and it was only after being premiered at AMCON that the Model WHO was eventually conducted at other www.ifmsa.org
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medical conferences; to name a few, EXCELSIOR 2016 at Nashik, Maharashtra and the conference conducted at Stanley Medical College, Chennai. AMCON was not only attended by medical students across the country, but was also attended by the stalwarts of Indian Medicine.The second day of the conference witnessed a gathering of over 900 students who were present to attend the lecture by our guest speakers. Dr. Jayshree Mehta, spoke on the topic of ‘Research in medicine’. This was followed by Dr. Ketan Desai addressing the topic of ‘N.E.E.T-National Eligibility Entrance Test’ and Dr. Vedprakash Mishra gave an oration on the topic ‘Competence based curriculum’. The medical students that attended this grand synod, reaped the benefits of attending the MCI panel discussion, the objective of which was to update the students on the various aspects, changes and additions in the medical curriculum, giving them an edge over the rest.Several other important discussions helped the students foresee the future of medical education in India. With the event being graced by deans of medical and dental colleges of Gujarat and other eminent doctors of the medical fraternity,AMCON shall remain an unparalleled conference organized by the medical students,in the years to come.The eminent speakers of the conference also included renowned interventional cardiologists, surgeons, general practitioners, and gynaecologists speaking on new innovations, latest technologies and diseases plaguing the medical field. AMCON got its international accreditation by the presence of Dr. Bronwyn Jones, ‘Australian of the year’, who spoke on the basic research methodologies, hence, promoting research among medical students in India. A convention of this scale with an inordinate and overwhelming response has left the medical fraternity across the nation awestruck.