To encourage and promote professional interaction and lifelong learning; recognize outstanding contributions of individuals and organizations; encourage scholar researchers to share their studies and careers with others. To promote interprofessional scientific and educational activities towards the advancement of the theory and practice of multidisciplinary approach.

To bring together Researchers, Doctors, Scientists, Engineers, Scholars and Students in the areas of Medical, Dental, Engineering and Technology, and provide a forum for the dissemination of original research results, new ideas, Research and development, practical experiments, which concentrate on both theory and practices.

To foster and conduct collaborative interdisciplinary research in state-of-the-art methodologies and technologies within their areas of expertise. To share the experience in order to improve the common man’s life by developing new innovative Medical and Engineering ideas, Technical tools or models or products of their need. The new ideas and knowledge may be disseminating to common man by organizing conferences, workshop, seminars and/or awareness programmes which is related to the overall growth/ improvement/ uplift of all sections of the society.

Among the various academic objectives and aims of the Academy to organize its conferences is the development of professional values and behaviors. The Academy is the platform for the fraternity to share and exchange scholarly and research work in the field of medical specialties at IMSACON 2017, as part of continuing medical education.

We invite scientific papers from eminent persons especially for the International Orations the Academy makes it to be the prominent feature at every Annual Conference.

The primary objective is twofold: To continue to develop learner’s knowledge and understanding of professionalism, and in so doing. Contribute to the improvement of patient care. To do so, conference presentations will identify specific learning objectives related to these goals.

The fraternity members are given an opportunity to present scientific papers with an objective to share their experiences that relate directly and clearly to the effect that the presentation will have on a healthcare professionals knowledge, or skills or behaviors that they can bring forward and apply with patients, and peers and members of a healthcare team in a healthcare setting (hospital or classroom or community).

By the end of the presentation and the interactive exchange on the subject the learner will:

Develop the capacity for critical thinking about the nature, ends and limits of medicine with an aim to deepen understanding of illness and suffering, Identify successes and failures in the history of medical professionalism.

Understand the dynamic history of medical ideas and practices, their implications for patients and health care providers, and the need for lifelong learning and promote tolerance for ambiguity of theories, the nature of evidence, and the evaluation of appropriate patient care, research, and education.

Recognize the dynamic interrelationship between medicine and society through history.

Contribute to the improvement of patient care with an aim to critically appraise clinical management from a historical perspective and develop a historically informed sensitivity to the diversity of patients (including appreciation of class, gender, socio-economic status, ethnicity, cultural, spiritual orientations)

Elicit and write a patient’s history worthy of an historian and respond to changes in medical practice guided by a historically informed concept of professional responsibility and patient advocacy.

Dr K Jagadeesan, President, IMSA

Knowing what we don’t know is also important. It is a priority of today to identify scientific uncertainties in health care. One objective is to alert researchers to the scientific uncertainties, identify where further research is most needed. Another objective is to provide health services with evidence for setting priorities. It is pertinent to prioritize within the greater context of the changes and trends globally today, as health care moves ever closer to processes for systematically setting priorities and rationing services.

It is a problematic concept in medical ethics; it’s also a reality. These debates would raise “unanswerable questions of equity” and inequity, however access to a basic level of care must be universal. A “basic” level of care must be defined through a public process

There is no magic formula for prioritizing and deciding which operating units of a health system gets priority.

If we want more evidence-based practice, we need more practice-based evidence.

Completing the community health needs assessment and prioritization: What are social determinants of health?

Ludhiana: Historical Background

Ludhiana city was founded in the time of Lodhi dynasty which ruled in Delhi from 1451-1526 A.D. The legend goes that two Lodhi Chief Yusuf Khan and Nihand Khan were deputed by Sikandar Lodhi (1489-1517 A.D.) to restore order in this region. They camped at the site of present city of Ludhiana which was then a village called Mir Hota. Yusuf Khan went across the river Sutlej in Jalandhar Doab to check Khokhars who were plundering the Doab and made a settlement at Sultanpur while Nihand Khan stayed back and founded the present city at the site of village Mir Hota. The new town was originally known as Lodhi-ana, which means the town of Lodi's. The name later changed to the present name Ludhiana.