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The present study was conducted to see the impact of Human Resource Development Centre programmes on professional growth of Assistant Professors. The sample comprised of 58 teachers who have attended the orientation programme in 2010. Being a qualitative data, only percentage (%) from the collected data, based on 5-point scale developed by the investigator himself, was calculated. The findings clearly indicated a high level of satisfaction towards the performance of Human Resource Development Centre in imparting knowledge. There was a positive response from the participants regarding brushing up of their teaching skills and inclination towards learning. Undoubtedly the programme was found to be helpful in promoting professional growth of teachers, yet some suggestions were made to make the courses more meaningful.
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Background: India is currently experiencing rapid epidemiological transition with rising prevalence of obesity which may be due to sedentary lifestyle and changing dietary pattern. Certain occupations like the job of bank employees are sedentary which predispose individuals to obesity. Hence the present study was carried out to study the prevalence of obesity in bank employees in Latur city of Maharashtra.Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out amongst 400 bank employees of Latur city. Banks were listed according to sectors i.e. government, co-operative and private. The study subjects were interviewed by predesigned and pretested proforma including bio-social characteristics like age, gender, height, weight etc. The anthropometric measurements were taken like height, weight etc. Data was entered in Microsoft Excel and analysed by using appropriate test whenever necessary.Results: According to body mass index (BMI) classification by WHO classification 34.5% subjects were overweight and obese and 25.75% of bank employees had obesity by waist-hip ratio as per WHO classification and 18.5% of bank employees had isolated abdominal obesity.Conclusions: The prevalence of generalized as well as abdominal obesity by WHO classification was more in bank employees. The associated risk factors like age, gender and designation was found to be significant.
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Background: There are several risk factors contributing to cardiovascular diseases, such as age, gender and ethnicity. Positive family history being overweight and obese is also additional risk factors. Other, life style factor that contribute to hyper tension are smoking, stress cell phone use and physical inactivity, consumption of alcohol, increase salt intake reduce potassium intake. The objective of the study was to assess the awareness about cardiovascular diseases risk factors amongst first-year medical students.Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out amongst 136 first-year medical students of MIMSR Medical College, Latur, Maharashtra during the period of December 2017 to May 2018. A self-administered, pre-tested structured questionnaire was used to obtain information about awareness of cardiovascular diseases risk factors including diet, physical activity, smoking, and alcohol habits from the study subjects.Results: The study subjects were 136 first-year medical students belonging to 18–23 years age group. There was good awareness about high fat food, high sugar intake, smoking and alcohol consumption as cardiovascular diseases risk factors.Conclusions: There is good awareness about cardiovascular diseases risk factors among first-year medical students.
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Introduction: The thyroid gland is an important endocrine gland in human body , thyroid disorder being thecommon health problem affecting almost 5% of the population. Incomplete removal of thyroid gland may causerecurrence of disease and it could be dangerous when complete removal of gland tissue is indicated in Grave’sdisease or malignant carcinoma . Remains of pyramidal lobe ,the cause. Hence its necessary to know the trueincidence of anatomic variants of thyroid viz , pyramidal lobe or levator glandulae thyroidae to perform safeand effective surgery.Aims: To study the morphological variations of lobes of thyroid gland . viz. pyramidal lobe, levator glandulaethyroidae and its incidence in western maharashtra population.Materials and methods: The study was conducted on total of 60 thyroid glands(male-34, female-26) collectedduring routine dissection from adult cadavers of both sexes aged more than 18 yrs in the department of anatomy,B. J. government medical college , Pune. A cross sectional descriptive type of study was performed.Results: Pyramidal lobe was found in 25% cases , more common in females (30.76%), than males (20.58%) .Levator glandulae thyroidae was seen in (38.33%) cases, more common in females (38.46%) than males (38.23%). Pyramidal lobe was mostly originated from center of isthmus (46.6%) and least from right end of isthmus(6.66%) . In pyramidal lobe, length and breadth were more in males whereas thickness was more in females.Maximum 73.9% LGT seen were muscular in texture followed by fibromuscular , fibrous respectively. Maximumnumber of LGT seen were extending from pyramidal lobe to hyoid bone (43.47%), followed by either lobe ofthyroid gland to hyoid bone . All dimentions of LGT were more in males. PL associated with LGT was seen in23.33% cases , males 20.59% and females 26.92% , thus showing female preponderance.Conclusion: The study highlights the incidence of pyramidal lobe and levator glandulae thyroidae which isimportant to keep in mind for successful thyroid surgeries to prevent recurrence of diseases .
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Introduction: The Carotid Canal is an important structure at the base of skull as it conveys the internal carotid artery, along with a sympathetic nerve plexus and a venous plexus. Previous researches done on carotid canal suggest that abnormalities to this canal, such as fractures of carotid canal and carotid sympathetic plexus schwannoma have their effect on the internal carotid artery and the structures passing through it. Cases of absence of carotid canal have also been reported, which causes variations of the internal carotid artery. Attempt has been made in this study to give a detailed view of the ‘external opening of carotid canal’ (EOCC) which is the gateway of the carotid canal at the skull base. This study shall be useful for Surgeons, Radiologists, Anatomists, Forensic Experts, Anthropologists, etc. Aim: This study aims at measuring the various dimensions of the external openings of the carotid canal pair present at the base of skull, and to observe the age changes, sexual dimorphism, and symmetry of the external opening of the carotid canal from the analysis of these measurements. Materials and methods: Total 235 dry skulls that included 181 adolescent to adult skulls of known age and sex (age ranging from 13 years up to old age skulls of 60 years or above) and 54 foetal skulls were studied for this purpose. The longest & shortest diameter of each carotid canal, wasmeasured using a screw adjusted compass and a Vernier Calliper. Their distance from pharyngeal tubercle and from the X axis and Y axis was measured. Observations and Results: In the present study, it was observed that external opening of each carotid canal was unique in its morphology andmorphometry. The dimensions of external opening of carotid canal progressively increased from foetal age to 25 years of age, however after 25 years of age, it did not show any age change within same sex, but it showed age changes when adolescent female skulls of age less than 25 years were compared with adult male skulls of age above 25 years. It was also observed that the external opening of carotid canal showed sexual dimorphism when compared within same age group (that is, between adolescent male and female skulls below 25 years age, and between adult male and female skulls above 25 years age. Further it was also observed that EOCC did not show any asymmetry in foetal age, however it showed asymmetry in female skulls below age 25 years (adolescent).