COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS

All the members can share their views and suggestions for the  betterment of the functioning of the association and conduction of the conferences. You can submit  your message in the "comments"section below this post - you have to write your name and address with designation along with your comment. The comments will be published  after verification. Comments with personal grievances , allegations or derogative remarks or harsh words will be excluded as a rule. Any personal grievances shall be addressed to the secretary through email/phone but not here, as this is a general forum to reflect the varied ideas. 

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SUGGESTION FROM DR, K.R.L. SURYAKIRANI : 

 

Dr. K.R.L.Suryakirani

Ex-Officio President of IAMM TAPC Chapter 

Professor and Head

Department of Microbiology

Rangaraya Medical COllege, Kakinada. 

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As a senior member,ex-treasurer,ex vicepresident and ex president of the association,I have a few suggestions for the organising secretaries of the future conferences.

 

I had been attending conferences of IAPM AND IAMM State chapters.There are always some discrepancies arising in one way or other in the prize paper sessions. In this connection I take the liberty to give a few guidelines  for smooth conduction of prize paper sessions.

 

1. Three judges to be contacted prior to the conference for each of 4 prize sessions namely Dr.C.S. bhaskaran,B S Lakshmi,BK Rao and RMC prizes.Two judges for each of the free paper sessions.if sufficient number of judges are not awailable they can  be repeated.Momentos can be given only once in the valedictory.

judges should confirm their acceptance  and stick to the time allotted.

 

•  (Editor's Note : The proposal of three judges for prize paper sessions, is already raised in the general body meeting by Dr. Nagamani, HOD of Gandhi Medical College, and it has been accepted by the general body.)

 

2.the judges should not be from the same institution as that of participants ,to avoid the impression of biased judgement.

 

3.the judges should be given the copy of the guidelines given by sponsorers along with the marks sheet.They should give their individual marks,compare at the end of the session.they should total the marks,take an average and decide.the judges have to write the name of the winner duly signed by all three of them.

 

it is better to announce the  name by the judges at end of the session itself.though the prize is given in valedictory.this will avoid all embarrassment to the judges and organisers later on.

 

4.The objections regarding judges by the participants/audience/judges themselves should be sorted out before the start of the session and avoid discussions at a later date.

 

5.The participants should take the judgement as final and accept with grace and sportive spirit ,without bakdoor comments to avoid embarrassment for the winners.

 

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PROPOSAL IN THE GENERAL BODY MEETING

The following document is the proposal by Dr. D.S.Murty, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, S.V.Medical College, Tirupati, in the general body meeting held on 7th February, 2010.
If you feel that any modifications are required, please give suggestions to us.

You can mail your suggestions to :

iammapchapter@yahoo.co.in (or)

Dr. O.Satyanarayana, General Secretary, IAMM AP Chapter, Department of Microbiology, Rangaraya Medical College, GGH Campus, Kakinada.

The document is also available on website. It facilitates the members who don't have ( or didn't give..!) their email ids to go through the document and give suggestions.

Please send your valuable suggestions before : June 31st 2010

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Proposal :

This proposal was made in the general body meeting with the following goals :

1. UNIFORM FORMAT : to ensure uniformity in the abstracts submitted for presentations in the conference
2. UNIFORM CUT OFF DATE : for submissions irrespective of the year or place of the annual conference

I. UNIFORM FORMAT :

The idea of uniform format for abstracts was conceived after observing several varieties of 'abstracts'- ranging from:
the shortest abstract with only few lines to the longest abstract running into several pages;
the abstracts submitted by scribbling 'something' on a small piece of paper to the abstracts that were submitted as scanned pictures (including 'as it is' pictures from text books);
abstracts that describe even the common details to the abstracts that just grope around the topic and say 'the results will be discussed later'... etc.

To avoid such 'wide variations', i felt that it is better to have an uniform format.

One more reason for this 'uniform format' is to ensure that the postgraduates get familiarised with the submission of abstrats or papers in a predefined format to the journals of their choice.

The draft prepared by me is presented here : CLICK HERE . It is based on the suggestions provided in the website of IJMM for its authors.

II. UNIFORM DATE :

December 31st of each year can be kept as a cut off date for submission of papers for presentation in the annual conference to be held in February next year. This uniform submission date is : irrespective of the place and actual dates of annual conference and independent of the registration dates.

This facilitates every one of us to gear up and prepare abstracts and submit them rather than waiting for the organising secretary to announce the dates and later murmering that the time is not sufficient or the information was not passed on in time.

The address where to submit the abstracts will be provided up to date on the website.

The rules for different prize categories are also available on the web site ( in "CONSTITUTION") .

Please mail to : iammapchapter@yahoo.co.in if you find any difficulty in finding them.