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THE ASSOCIATION OF SURGEONS OF INDIA
THE NATIONAL SURGICAL QUIZ - 2000

The Governing Council of the Association of Surgeons of India has decided to introduce a National Surgical Quiz., Which is to be a feature of the National (ASICON) meet every year, commencing from this year. The quiz is open to all Surgical Post-graduates students (both MS and DNB candidates) only. Each team will be made up of 2 post-graduate students. Every state chapter of the National Body is to select its best team/s and send them to New Delhi this year, for the grand finals scheduled for the 26th of December 2000. The winners of the quiz at the national level will be given very attractive prizes.

For the selection of the best team/s to represent the Karnataka State Chapter, the state has been divided into 3 zones. Following conduct of the surgical quiz preliminaries in each zone, the best 2 teams from each zone will meet in Bangalore for the state Level quiz contest. the winners will be sent to New Delhi with all expenses being borne by the Karnataka State Chapter of the ASI, to represent the State at the National Level Surgical Quiz. The Zones are :

Zone 1 : Gulbarga, Bellary, Bijapur, Belgaum & Hubli

Zone 2 : Bangalore, Tumkur & Kolar

Zone 3 : Mysore, AIMS Belur, Mangalroe, Manipal and Davangere.

PRELIMINARY SURGICAL QUIZ FOR ZONE 2

All Medical Colleges in Zone 2 with post graduate students in General Surgery are INVITED to send their BEST team of 2 members (only 2 team per Institution) for the preliminary round of surgical quiz to be conducted on SUNDAY 17th SEPT, 2000 at 10.00 AM at The Conference Hall, St. Martha's Hospital, Bangalore - 560 001.

There will be an initial written round of quiz for all the teams, and the best 5 teams will then have 7 to 10 rounds of oral quizzing, with questions covering aspects of basic sciences, principles of surgery, clinical surgery, history of surgery, surgical trivia, etc. The 2 best teams will then represent the zone at the state level quiz scheduled for 1st Oct. 2000 at Bangalore.

Institutions participating in the quiz may kindly inform the undersigned by 31st Aug. 2000 of their team details, to help us conduct the quiz. Awaiting your response,
Dr. K. Lakshman
58, 1st Main, 1st Block
Thygaraja Nagar
Bangalore - 560 028
Tel : 6766870
Email : Iman@vsnl.com		 Dr. C.S. Rajan
1st Floor, 14-A, 6th Cross Road
Jayamahal Extension
Bangalore - 560 046
Tel : 3531206
Email : rajans@mantraonline.com

APPEAL

The Election for the President Elect and Members of the Governing Council and Indian Journal of Surgery of the Association of Surgeons of India has been announced. All the Members are requested to Franchise their vote without fail.

The Annual Conference of the A.S.I will be held at New Delhi from December 26th to 30th. Those interested in taking part in the Scientific Programme may send the abstract to the secretary of the association at Chennai. A large contigent of surgeons will visit New Delhi along with our National President dr. Shekar. If you have not decided yet please register yourself and join the party.

 National Seminar and Workshop on Post - Graduate Surgical Education was held recently at Bangalore.The Meeting was inaugurated by Dr. Chandrashekara Shetty,Vice Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences.

FELICITATIONS

Dr. K. Krishnamurthy, Popularly known as K.K. amongst the surgical fraternity and Dr. K.S. Shekar, President of A.S.I. Were felicitated by The Surgical Society of Bangalore in the Presence of Her Excellency Smt. Ramadevi, Governor of Karnataka.

BANGALORE SURGEONS AT THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE

With increasing globalization occurring in every aspect of our life it is not surprising that more and more Doctors are taking part in the International Meetings. Dr. GopinathK.S., Dr. R.P. Deo, Dr. Ashok Shenoy, Dr. Raghavan, Surgical Oncologists attended 5th International Conference of Head & Neck Cancers at Sanfransisco, USA. Dr. M.G. Bhat, Sr. Srimurthy and Dr. Ramesh attended the Annual Conference of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Society of Asia (ELSA) held at Singapore. Dr. Bhagawan adn Dr. Thripati went to Philippines to attend Asia Pacific Meeting of Vascular Surgery.

ORATION

Dr. Balakrishna Rao Oration was delivered by Dr. Praful Desai,Doyan of Surgical Oncology from Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai on Friday 29th of June at Hotel Ashoka Bangalore.