Comparing the Effectiveness of Case Based Learning with Conventional Teaching in Anatomy

Introduction: Case based learning (CBL ) is an efficient method of making dry subject like anatomy interesting and student centered. Subjects and Methods: A group of students of 1st MBBs were taught by CBL while the other group was taught by conventional teaching methods and both the groups were assessed for their performance. Results: Students had a better understanding of the topic on being taught by CBL. Conclusion: CBL is a good approach to teach anatomy to medical students as it makes the subject quite lively and clinically oriented.

Critical stenosis of bicarotid trunk and left subclavian artery with severe coronary artery disease - a management dilemma.

A 48 yr. old patient suffering from bicarotid trunk and left subclavian artery stenosis with severe coronary artery disease was managed successfully by angioplasty and stenting of the bicarotid trunk and subclavian artery. This was followed by coronary artery bypass grafting after one month. He was free of angina and cerebrovascular symptoms at one and a half year follow up.

Induction of lepromin positivity by a candidate anti-leprosy vaccine Mycobacterium w in lepromin negative healthy contacts of multibacillary leprosy patients.

In a hospital based study, 362 household contacts of multibacillary leprosy patients were screened for evidence of leprosy and 54 (14.9%) were found to be having leprosy. The remaining 308 apparently healthy contacts were lepromin tested and 109 (35.4%) were observed to be negative to Mitsuda lepromin. M.w vaccine was administered intradermally to 95 of these 109 lepromin negative contacts. Sixty eight of them could be retested for lepromin A reactivity. Fifty six (82.35%) manifested lepromin conversion. The twelve subjects who did not show lepromin conversion, received a second dose of the vaccine, and eleven subsequently became lepromin positive. The overall lepromin conversion rate was thus 98.5% (67 out of 68). Follow-up of these contacts upto a period of 30 months did not demonstrate reversion of lepromin positivity back to negativity status. No untoward effects of vaccination were observed except for local ulceration at the site of vaccine administration.