Urological education in India: A status report

Standardized Metadata for Education: a Status Report

This paper starts with a brief background to worldwide standardization activities in the field of educational technologies. It then focuses on the specific area of metadata, and introduces the two most relevant approaches there: IEEE LTSC LOM and DC-Education. We review how different communities adopt and support educational metadata for their constituencies. This paper can be considered as a f...

A Review of the Diabetic Status in India

Objective: Diabetes mellitus (DM) also known as diabetes, is a chronic metabolic disorder that is rapidly becoming a worldwide concern with severe economic, social, and health consequences. Diabetes is a collection of metabolic illnesses defined by hyperglycemia that results due to abnormalities in the secretion of insulin, its action, or a combination of the two. According to the International...

Urological education: Do we need a rethink?

Medical Education in India

The recent visit of Sir Norman Walker to India is an event of no ordinary importance. Sir Norman was sent out to examine the conditions under which undergraduate medica. education is conducted in this country with a special view to determining the future relations which will exist between the General Council ol Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom and the Universities of Ind...

Bioinformatics education in India

An account of bioinformatics education in India is presented along with future prospects. Establishment of BTIS network by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India in the 1980s had been a systematic effort in the development of bioinformatics infrastructure in India to provide services to scientific community. Advances in the field of bioinformatics underpinned the need for well-t...