St John's Medical College holds 56th Convocation
St John’s Medical College, Bengaluru held its 56th annual convocation and college day on April 4, 2023. As many as 144 MBBS, 82 postgraduates, 17 super speciality postgraduates, and a PhD scholar students received their degrees. The dean of St John’s Medical College, Dr George D’Souza highlighted the various accomplishments of the students, faculty, and staff of the institution.
St John’s Medical College, Bengaluru organised its convocation and college day on April 4, 2023. Dr Ramachandra Guha, renowned Indian historian, environmentalist, writer, public intellectual, and Padma Bhushan awardee, was the chief guest of the event.
On graduation day, a total of 244 health professionals were awarded their degrees including 144 MBBS students, 82 postgraduates, 17 super speciality postgraduates and 1 PhD scholar.
Dr Ramachandra Guha, in his address to the graduates and awardees, emphasised the need to have inspiring role models who could mould the way in which one looks at life. He pointed out that the newly graduating doctors should not just perform the job that they were trained for or committed to do, but explore and embrace some of their talents and interests in arts, literature and music, as reported by Daijiworld.
This would help them to avoid mundaneness in what they do and to see deeper meaning in the things that they do. Medicine is not just a vocation, but a calling, he added.
He ended his message on a lighter note by counselling the graduates on marriage and finding the right life partner.
Currently, the college takes in 150 undergraduate students, 176 postgraduate and postdoctoral students every year across 40 specialities and subspecialties. An average of nearly 90% of students in all years of MBBS have passed the University exams this year, with several securing first-class, distinction and university rank, as reported by catholictime.
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