A Strong Proposal Starts With a Strong Research Question A good research proposal does not begin with the application form. It begins with a problem worth investigating. Many faculty members identify meaningful problems in teaching, assessment, and student learning. The challenge is turning those observations into...
Medical colleges are the primary incubators for national health innovation. Medical education in India stands at a genuine inflection point. As our colleges adopt competency-based frameworks, expand postgraduate training, and take on a larger role in shaping healthcare delivery, research culture in medical colleges is the...
Medical education cannot improve on assumptions alone. It needs evidence. This is particularly important as medical education in India is evolving through Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME). Medical educators are experimenting with new approaches to teaching, assessment, technology, and competency development. The next step is to study...
Student suicides have reached their highest ever recorded level as per the NCRB 2023 report. We lose many of them because the support arrives too late or not at all. I have seen students carry extraordinary pressure—academic, family, societal—quietly and alone. Neither technology nor the healthcare system alone...
She does not have the grandeur of a peacock or the mythology of an owl. She is small, brown, sharp-eyed, and completely ordinary. And yet, of all the birds in India, she is the one who has stayed closest to us. She was our first distraction...
There are moments in life that bring you full circle. Moments that remind you of where you started, how far you’ve come, and why every step of the journey was worth it. My recent visit to Kurnool Medical College, my alma mater, was exactly one of...
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