Mysuru: During the recently concluded budget, the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences has allocated Rs 20 Crore for research in various fields. Last year, nearly 120 proposals from various institutions were approved to take up research in the university while this year the varsity is targeting for nearly 300 to 400 proposals. Apart from this from coming academic year, the graduates of medicine will have to study more about research methodology and preventive measures.
Already applications have been invited to take up research. Across the state there are nearly 600 institutions which includes medical colleges, dental colleges, nursing colleges and pharmacy colleges which are affiliated to RGUHS. Once the proposals from the colleges are sent to the university, the committee which is formed to go through the quality of the proposals will take a final call to approve the same. If the proposals are innovative and novel, the committee will provide Rs 25 Lakh to take up the research. Some of the researches are also collaborative; it will be taken along with Indian Institute of Science and Institute for Stem Cell Biology experts.
Speaking to Newskarnataka, Dr Ravindranath, Vice Chancellor, RGUHS said, “Doctors and scientists belonging to IISC will be taking out collaborative research. Our clinical staff will give inputs and inturn the experts from IISC will develop new device and technology. Though we have allocated Rs 20 Crore for research this year, we are even ready to allocate more if there are more proposals which are really innovative. Every year, apart from the proposals from medical and dental colleges (80 to 90 proposals from each college) we get proposals from pharmacy colleges as well.”
Partial revision of syllabus for Medical students:
The Syllabus and Curriculum Redesign Committee has been formed to make some changes in the existing syllabus. There was hardly more focus on bio ethics, research methodology, emergency treatment and on preventive aspects. Hence, keeping this in mind, the committee will be giving little more emphasis on the above said topics and redesign the curriculum.
