Medical College Trivandrum, 1992 MBBS batch

Deepa S kurup is working as a registrar in Anasthesia

I understand that Saritha is working as an SHO in Ob/Gyn while Smitha Menon is doing a registrarship in radiology.

I hear that the couple that was one of the first to reach the UK are doing extremely well. K. Rajesh, is one of the very few indians who got accepted into a registrar post in Cardiology, and currently is in Australia, pursuing a PhD. Priyarenjini is doing a registrarship in Neurology.

I had a chance to have a long conversation with Jeet. He is doing very well in UK. He is now married. His wife Mridula, is preparing for her PLAB, while jeet is a few months away from finishing his training in general practice, and will be starting out as an independent physician. Incidentally, Dilip Abraham Eapen was visiting jeet this weekend. Dilip is in internal medicine and doing well too. Dilip's wife, Deepa, is currently finishing her MPH from Sri Chitra in Trivandrum. Jeet tells me that there are at least 30+ of our classmates in the UK !

I had a chance to call leema on her birthday today. leema is working as an Opthalmologist at the Mulamootil Eye Hospital, Kozhenchery. Her husband, Manoj is a Dentist who has a very busy clinic in changanachery.

Someone finally decided to marry Anil !!! The "lucky" girl is Rani, who happens to be Reena Jacob's youngest sister. Rani is an engineer, currently in south africa. They are planning a september wedding in trivandrum. Imagine Anil and Joji- hanging out and sharing a couple of beers together :)

I joined the fellowship program here at Charlottesville. Its a small college town, but nestled in a very scenic spot- just on the foothills of the shenandoah mountains... Unlike the residency program, they are making me work hard here in UVA. Damn, and to think that i thought that rheumatology meant a nice lifestyle.....

My graduating class foto

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Alex (chalex) is now training in anesthesiology at Bradford Royal Infirmary. He has passed his FRCA part one and hopes to become a registrar soon.

Sheen sent me an email informing me that he has been accepted into the oncology training program at Cambridge.

If you have been following the news in kerala, currently a hot topic is the nanotechnology that our Arunkumar VS ( vepraalam) and his brother have been experimenting in. They have laid claim to "hundreds of patents" for their pathbreaking technology. But is this the real thing or just another scam?? check out the following link: http://www.hindu.com/2005/03/07/stories/2005030707160500.htm Also check out the blog on their activities: http://www.keralananofrauds.blogspot.com So, what do you think ?

Pradeep tells me that Asha is busy working as a fulltime mom and as a part time pediatrician in chicago nowadays.

Apparently both Jason and Muralikrishnan have settled into cozy central government jobs. Both cleared the UPSC exams and are working in the railway hospital system. Jason is working in Chennai, and Murali is in Palakkad. Jason did his MS in surgery from Trivandrum, while Murali completed with honors, his MD in medicine.

Harikrishnan after finishing his MD, has joined the infectious diseases department of the medical college, via the PSC exam. This posting too is a permanent Govt job.

I spoke to Jayachandran today, and he tells me that he has been working in our Medical college, as a lecturer in M5 team. He got this through the PSC and this is a permanent job ! His unit chief is C.Jayakumar ( Aniyaa)..

Jagan hopes to start a 4 year Neurology residency in July, at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in NewYork. Jagan currently is a PhD student in Auditory Neurosciences at Northwestern University in Chicago. Incidentally, Jagan has also been publishing short stories on the net, that you should certainly read. Here is the link to one of his stories: http://www.viewsunplugged.com/VU/20031021/arts_shortStory_burningDay.shtml

We congratulate VP on publishing a review article in Dialysis & Transplantation about Anemia of CKD. This article appears in the December 2004 issue of the journal and is linked to below: http://www.eneph.com/pdf/v33n12p758.pdf

Prasanth with Son Harigovind(Vava)

Had been to Chocowinity( middle of nowhere!), North Carolina, over the weekend, as Pradeep and Priya were hosting a grand party celebrating sweet anjaly's 5th birthday. Anoop also had come as did a bunch of our friends from here. Anil George had some some bullshit research that he couldnt get away from, but thankfully his Parents were there :D