Seminars in Medical College Life

Being a very shy and timid person,I always doubted myself when I was about to give a talk on the stage..So the day when my first seminar was given ,I almost trembled..It was medicine topic PULSE which I had to present infront of a few classmates and my medicine department..My greatest strength was my piyachang who was about to present JVP seminar with me on same day🤗As soon as it started professors started firing questions at me and students at the same time..I tried my best to give answers .. Overall it was a good experience..My first ever seminar at the age of 19 years made me confident..

Then I got 1 microbiology group seminar on STDs, community medicine seminar on URBAN HEALTH CARE  ,1 more medicine group seminar on PARASITOLOGICAL INFECTION,1 Surgery group seminar on parathyroid disorders,OBG group seminar on CONTRACEPTIVES and Paediatric seminar on haematological disorders..
Best part is that my piyachang was with me in all group seminars🤗
Then came the case presentation in comm med,med,surgery, Paediatric,OBG..
TATS what Medical college life is all about.

The most memorable of all seminars was the group seminar I did on sexually transmitted disease...Our microbiology HOD  is a very dynamic person who taught in USA was our moderator..5 girls were members of the great talk that is me,piyachang,jeens,anula,Anu..
At first when we were randomly given this topic,we all thought of backing out,but since seminar presentation was compulsory,we had no choice,but to go for it😎. At first we all prepared a slide of bacterial,viral,fungal and parasitological STD..Then we showed our seminar to our moderator.He disagreed to our style and explained about the unique style of how students presented talks in USA which is the thematic presentation where each condition is presented as case..Each patients are flying from different parts of the world that is endemic to that particular STD is coming to seek treatment in CDC ATLANTA,where each of us are sitting as specialists to treat them..It sounded so cool 😎and we all decided to give a try..After making our presentation as HOD said we decided to show him..Ours was the most coolest, naughtiest and kinkiest presentation ever😂😂.But due to our bad luck,HOD had to go for emergency leave,due to which he couldn't attend our presentation..
We were like orphans with nobody left to show our presentation with no moderator..Then we got a new moderator... As expected,the  lady couldn't digest our style of presentation and told us to delete our slides..Since there was only  2days left,we couldn't change our slides and decided to present the same.Mines was already made in my laptop at home so it was fine..But my other 4 members had made it in their college computer which got deleted due to a virus.But by god's grace they recovered most of the contents , modified all the slides the day before and presented the topic.

Next day we were all laughing before the presentation thinking how the profs will react seeing our rare talk.Then came all professors in groups to the classroom like in mahabharath war ..Then we 5 entered the stage like justice league characters...
*Piyachang gave intro by classifying the STDs ,spoke of the different infection and presented one case .
Then I came and presented case where stock broker gets lesion after a sexual encounter with his girlfriend (herpes) and differential diagnosis..Then 3 more(HPV WARTS,LGV,CHANCROID)..

*GINA spoke on discharge producing STD gonorrhoea and LGV and presented a cool case..

*Anula also gave talk on systemic infection causing STD

*ANU gave on diagnosis and treatment of each..

After the whole show,the audience were dumbstruck as if we all were some extra terrestrial creatures...As expected the conservative, narrowminded ,oppressive mangalorean crowd couldn't digest our talk and said it was Gibberish.Ours is a country where people are  very shy to  talk about sex,rape and also to give sex education..Then how can we expect population reduction...That clearly reflected on all their reaction after our presentation.

.Infact one of the associate professor whom I hated to the core  said that "You must act like a local in a third world country instead of behaving in an international manner"..He mocked at us maximum for the cases we made up and said that it doesn't need to be presented in a country like India..Most of the other staffs too made fun of us including our moderator lady who even made faces..In the midst of all this,I really wished our American HOD had come to support our ideas..After the criticisms ,we girls were all felt like Draupadi whom duryodhana misbehaved with by doing vasthrakshayapa.😂
Luckily all our classmates supported us and our ideas..In fact many even came and appreciated us after the great talk😎

After the whole talk,I felt a sense of liberation of my mind,thoughts,ideas and thinking and even got the confidence to conquer the world..I realised that the day one becomes mature and successful in life is when one disobeys and rebels how his  ideas are right infront of the society..That day even my mom told me that you and your other 4 friends will develop great confidence to go ahead in life after this..After the seminar HOD came back after his leave and even asked us about it to which we told him all this..But he is very supportive and is always by our side😎.

That is what the most memorable seminar of my life taught me and I feel so proud to have presented it.