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What is difference between TCT India Next and rest of the meetings: A whiff of Fresh Air among a Congress of Stale Breath!
TCT India NEXT meeting is scheduled on 5-7th August, 2016 to be held in Hotel Eros, Nehru Place, New Delhi. Now many of you would ask why I should attend this meeting. Is it not just another tired, me too meeting?
TCT India NEXT is not just any “old wine in a new bottle.” It is a neoteric approach to the clinical conundrum which you face on a day to day basis. It aims to provide brand-new solutions to contemporary problems, an au courant take on the core of the issue, in a completely fresh ultra-modern format where the focus remains on YOU. Thus, It is not about who is doing the Live Case – It is about what you learn from the Case – What skill you pick up from the case - What message you take home from the case. Here is a summary of what we will do in India Next
1. Discuss all the topics at length and in one place at one time. The format will be some introduction to the issue say for example left main PCI, then a couple of Live Cases on them. Followed by case presentations in the same area and even a debate on some controversial aspect wherever relevant.
2. Focus on work not personalities. Although the biggest among all interventional cardiologist will be participating in our meeting
3. Focus on what you want and not what others want
4. We will have a quick response time, everything finalized well in time and properly communicated to one, seamless co-ordination and there will be no last minute “hanky panky.”
5. You will hear from horses’ mouth. People who have themselves done landmark trials will discuss them.
6. We will reach an educational, technological and organizational level unheard of before at least in India
7. This meeting is about YOU. We will discuss your issues, your problems, solutions that are relevant to you
8. We will talk of issues relevant to Indian context, how Western data, concepts, technology can be applied in Indian context. We will have best of both worlds
9. We will focus on research: late breaking trials, research posters and presentations and a session on how to conduct trials.
You have worked hard in alien country and have done so well. It is time to tell folks back home what you have achieved. If you have anything to show be it a new technique, a Live Case, this is the meeting to SHOW-CASE it. On our part we will be happy to give you platform (among 2500 or so participants) and will be happy to offer you free registration, in case you can take care of your travel and other logistics. Further, we can promise you that you will not regret your decision. Thus this is a meeting not be missed and is likely to set up new bench-marks for the future meetings.
The whole program can be viewed / downloaded at
http://www.acvs.in/programme.htm
Hope to see you in New Delhi
Thanks and Regards
Sundeep Mishra NN Khanna
Organizing Director TCT India 2016
Attended the 67th CSI conference. A huge endeavour, very hospitable Chennai Organisers! Well managed.
Stethoscope is Dead – The Delicate Sound of Impending Thunder!
French physician Rene Laennec had invented the stethoscope in 1816 and since then it has remained an icon for medicine and virtually an “identity card” for the doctors for past 2 centuries or so. In eyes of lay public no medical examination is complete without the use of this ubiquitous tool. In film media from silent movies, to talkies to Eastman color to even modern 3-D movies its presence remain sine qua non for characterizing physicians on screen. Further, proficiency in using it remains the most important skill for passing clinical examination at least in the medicine stream even till date. With times this technology has also undergone several innovations and in recent years, the sounds it transmits from the heart, lungs, blood vessels and bowels have been digitised, amplified, filtered and recorded. Algorithms exist that can analyze the clues picked up by a stethoscope and offer a possible diagnosis. However, whether all this is really an advance or it represents a “last gasp” of an obsolete technology. With the widespread use advanced sound technology, the 2nd revolution (with a range more than mere heard sound) i.e. the ultrasound and its application in cardiology, the Echocardiogram and now its third revolution, the development of pocket-size ultrasound devices the question is why do we continue using cumbersome, and inferior (sound quality and range-wise) first generation sound devices like stethoscope (the only reason could be availability and cost).. This also raises a further question, why we still insist on testing skills of prospective physicians and specialists on this antiquated device. I think this is one more reason why we should revise our medical curriculum and examination pattern to make it more attuned to modern times.
Dear Colleagues,
In continuation of the postponement of 67th Annual Conference of the CSI scheduled on 3rd to 6th December 2015 due to unprecedented national calamity at Chennai, the Executive Committee of Cardiological Society of India in its Emergency EC Meeting, held on 14th December 2015 at Indian Heart House, has decided to hold the 67th Annual Conference of the CSI at Chennai Trade Centre, Chennai, from 10th February 2016 to 13th February 2016.
All are requested to join the programme to show solidarity with the people of Tamil Nadu in this time of unprecedented national crisis.
The present Executive Body of CSI will continue till the next General Body Meeting of the CSI, to be held on 12th February 2016.
Regards,
Yours truly,
Dr. Mrinal Kanti Das
MBBS, MD, DM, FICC, FCSI
Hony. General Secretary
Cardiological Society of India
Tel: +91 033 2355-6308
Email:
csi@cal2.vsnl.net.in
Whats is the latest status of Floods and its impact on the conference.
Are flights taking off normally?
Please update.
want information about venue.