Helping medical students become better doctors

In my last report I had shared this great story about how we raised a lot of money to support medical (and other health sciences) students to get access to our courses and mentoring

Soon after - we have had a few students join in. Three of them - Devang, Srinidhi and Saloni finished our courses within the one month deadline. 

Devang scored 100% in two courses and 92% in the third. However he also pointed out a couple of errors in our videos (not pointed out by anyone else earlier!) and also helped us rephrase a couple of questions to avoid ambiguity. So as a special case, we awarded him the Rs 1000/- prize money that we offer to those who get a 100% in all three courses

Srinidhi scored 100% in two courses and 96% in the third. We awarded him Rs 500/- as prize money

Saloni scored 100% in the first, 96% in the second and 91% in the third - so she too was awarded Rs 500/- as prize money

We so far have 10 students enrolled and really need to encourage lots more. Do wish us luck on this. 

And - to share another bit of great news, we are very soon adding another course - very suitable to UG students - "Introduction to Referencing". We hope that the addition of this course will encourage many more to join in

Do wish us luck and do spread the word about our great work. 

Links:

• Teaching medical students the Foundations of Research - online!

In all these years of our work, the number of undergraduate students of any health sciences stream - (medicine, nursing, physiotherapy and more) - attending our courses has not been as high as it should. Earlier we knew that faculty, professionals, and residents themselves not having had much exposure, it was natural that students would not have much of a chance.

And yet, when medical students did attend our workshops, they always learnt very quickly. Often doing better than their seniors! 

We thought that with the availability of our online courses and our liberal institutional subscription plans, things would go better, but this has not happened yet

We hit upon this plan:

a) We will raise funds from the public, to cover the cost of providing access to students

b) We will ask students to donate a very small sum - Rs 250/- (that is just about $4.00) to us - more as a commitment to starting and completing the courses

c) We will motivate them to learn quickly, offering prizes if they finish the courses within in a month and score well

During the September challenge in GlobalGiving we raised over $3000. We will use all of it to help students to join our courses - we now have funds to take in around a hundred students. We have already had some enrolling

We are also raising funds within India for this and hope to make this a long term project. 

Do wish us luck!  

Links:

• Encouraging Undergraduate students of any health sciences stream