Message from President
Dr Dineshan K M
Dear UAK Members,
By this time this News Letter reaches you the USICON 2024 will be over and many of you have participated in the scientific deliberations and entertainments at Patna.
Recently we had two academic programmes under the auspices of South Zone USI at Aluva and Kottayam. H. S. Bhat Mid-term Workshop on Adolescent Urology at Rajagiri Hospital, Aluva on 26 November 2023 and South Zone Council members programme on Bladder Cancer updates at Caritas Hospital, Kottayam on 7th January 2024. Both these meeting were well attended and deliberations were highly informative to the trainees as well as for practicing Urologists.
Our forthcoming major event is going to UAK Mid-term conference at Ernakulam. This is being planned for one and half day programme provisionally planned in last week of April 2024, details of the programmes will reach you soon.
The UAK online clinical discussion planned to help the post graduates will start by February 2024. I want all the post graduates of the state to utilize this opportunity and also request all the faculty members in teaching institutions to support this programme
The other area which is disturbing is the lack of quality research work among our institutions. We will have to address this issue seriously and all the institutions including the non-teaching institutions need to schedule some short-term and long-term research projects.
We have enough and more clinical materials and only thing we have to channelize it to structure some research projects. I request the teaching hospitals to take the lead and we can also form a research committee under UAK who can coordinate the research programmes. Once we have good research work going on the quality of papers presented during the conference will also improve. Looking forward to meet you all at Ernakulam for the Mid-term conference in April 2024.
With warm regards
Dr Dineshan K M
President UAK
