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Toppers in the mind game

PUDUCHERRY: This duo from JIPMER bagged the first place with 105 points in the Indian Psychiatric Society Quiz held at Kolkata as part of their annual psychiatry conference ANCIPS 2008. L.G. Saptharishi and S. Mahavir Agarwal, final year students of JIPMER, were given a cash prize of Rs 5,000, a trophy, books and a certificate in the quiz conducted for under graduate students from all over the country.

This was the first time the two attended a quiz as a team. About the quiz, the two students said it was a lot of fun and stimulated interest in psychiatry in them.

“We met a lot of psychiatrists at the conference and all of them were pretty happy with their work. They said India did not have many psychiatrists so they would always be needed. It is very challenging and satisfying because the kind of patients that they treat is unlike you can see anywhere else,” they said.

Having cleared the quiz at the State level at Kanyakumari on June 23, 2007 as part of the TANPSYCON conference in which around 20 teams from various medical colleges participated, they qualified to participate in the zonal level. The zonal-level quiz was held at Hyderabad and two teams each from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Karnataka took part.

“The Kanyakumari round was a mix of trivia and core psychiatry, the zonal round was subject matter and the national round was lots of trivia with some subject matter,” they said.

Mahavir, who was the editor of JIPMER Students Association magazine, won the pharmacology medal in second year. Saptharishi, who was the president of the association, won the best student medal in the first and second years.

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