What will I Learn?
The MSE program is rigorous and intensive and exposes you to various facets of rural health care. You get to do the following things (overleaf):
• Participate in the daily hospital rounds
• Case discussion with consultants in the Out-patient Dept
• Assist the consultants in conducting deliveries and in surgeries
• Accompany the mobile medical team to the most interior locales of the project area
• Attend some of the field-based thematic health camps
• Participate in other community based health programs of SVYM, like the Reproductive & Child Healthcare program, Water-Sanitation & Hygiene Education program, etc
• Visit tribal colonies and get to know the tribal way of life
• Visit the Anti Retroviral Treatment Centre run by SVYM in Mysore and learn about treatment of HIV in a resource-limited setting
• Get to know more about Ayurveda, the popular Indian System of Medicine at our separate Ayurvedic treatment facility at Kenchanahalli
• Interact with the Govt. health machinery of the Taluk
• Participate in the periodic clinical meetings & seminars and do case presentations
• Participate in ongoing research projects (if any) or take up short-term research projects of their own choice
• Teach the nursing and paramedic students about basic health sciences
Students are given a customized training schedule at the start of the program. A typical day starts at 8 am and runs till 7pm, with an hour's break in between. Saturdays and Sundays are generally free. The students are required to submit a detailed training report to the coordinator by the end of the program, before collecting their certificates.