Feedback of postgraduate students about research methodology workshop

Background: The feedback from PG students will address the issues in organization of the workshop if any, which may be helpful for the continual improvement. The objectives of the study were to analyze the feedback of postgraduate students about every session of workshop; to analyze the feedback of postgraduate students about overall program of workshop; to assess the change in the knowledge of the participants with the help of pretest and posttest scores.Methods: The present cross sectional study was carried out in the month of August 2018. The three days research methodology workshop was conducted at Shri Vasantrao Naik Government Medical College, Yavatmal during 7th to 9th August 2018 for the 44 postgraduate students. The pretest questionnaire, posttest questionnaire, daily feedback form and program evaluation form were given to each participant. The analysis of pretest and posttest was done by paired t test with statistical software Epi Info Version 7.Results: Total 44 postgraduate students gave feedback on each day. The maximum score (1108) was given by participants to experimental study design and lowest score (942) was given to third group activity based on literature search. For the question about the scope for betterment in the workshop, we had developed three themes based on the responses of participants by using content analysis. Paired ‘t’ test showed significant difference between pre and post-test (p<0.001).Conclusions: The students gave constructive feedback on improvement of the sessions on literature search and Mendeley.

An unusual and rare case of burn: challenge to cause and manner of death.

In the brought dead cases where the dead body is completely charred pose difficulty to autopsy surgeon in commenting cause & manner of death. Many a times, scene of incidence, the inquest report, history narrated by relatives and postmortem findings may not go hand-in-hand. Suicides by burning especially by females are very common in India, but charred (burn) body without conflagration in which manner is suicidal is rarely occurred and reported. “Char means to burn to charcoal”. Investigation in this type of cases by police officer is again a matter of his knowledge and experience. Here we are reporting such case; a well built, 26 years old married but separated, mentally stressed female living with her mother and brother since 3 years, was found in bathroom in a charred condition on 03/01/2012 around 06:30 hours. As per inquest, manner of death is suicidal. The autopsy findings did not reveal exact cause of death but raised the suspicion of homicide. So the present case report will make everyone to think over not only importance of cause and manner of death in case of charred body but also to reinforce the investigating authority for thorough investigation in favor of justice to the victim.

Fatal multiple painless intussusceptions: A case report.

Intussusception is an invagination of the intestine into another in the direction of peristalsis. Because of varied presentations and relative rarity, intussusception remains a difficult condition to diagnose and at times it may be missed altogether. It is a commonest cause of intestinal obstruction in infancy and childhood though morbidity and mortality rates from the condition have progressively declined in recent times, still avoidable deaths continues. Here we present a case of female child of 3 months brought for forensic autopsy after her death with history of fever and cough since 2 days and breathlessness since 1 day. Autopsy revealed three intussusceptions. Painless intussusceptions are deceitful in their presentations. The forensic pathologist should be aware of such condition. The current case report exhibits such diagnostic pitfall and highlights the importance of forensic autopsy in revealing the cause of death.