Why Choose PSM as a Career Option?

[Pranab Chatterjee]

Hi guys,

I have started a series of posts to help potential candidates choose if they want to pursue PSM for an MD or not, but they may also be helpful for current students who might want to branch out and see what all the subject has to offer. Here are the first three installations:

Part 1: PSM as a Career Option: #1 Why Choose PSM? http://scepticemia.com/2016/03/21/psm-as-a-career-option-1-why-choose-psm/

Part 2: PSM as a Career Option: #2 Is Delhi the Best Place for Doing MD in PSM? http://scepticemia.com/2016/03/22/psm-as-a-career-option-2-is-delhi-the-best-place-for-doing-md-in-psm/

Part 3: PSM as a Career Option: #3 What do we Learn in MD PSM and does it Help Later in Life?: http://scepticemia.com/2016/03/23/psm-as-a-career-option-3/

I would appreciate your feedback on these!

Warm regards,

Pranab

Pranab Chatterjee, MD

Senior Research Associate (Infectious Diseases)

Roadmap to Combat Zoonoses in India (RCZI) Initiative

Public Health Foundation of India

Sector 44, Gurgaon

India

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[Malay Shah]

First one is awesomely written. Yet to go through the other two.
Pl write about initial experience of job also.
Keep up.

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[Pranab Chatterjee]

Thanks Malay! As someone who has always been a tad bit off the beaten tracks, your work has always been interesting for me! Look forward to hearing from you once you find time (and energy! lol - PG days are far behind us now!) to go through the posts. On a more serious note, there is a lot that needs to be done for the public image of the subject and we need to be advocates for the discipline, and show everyone that there is a lot more to PSM than the usually observed teaching route.

Warm regards,

Pranab.

Pranab Chatterjee, MD

Senior Research Associate (Infectious Diseases)

Roadmap to Combat Zoonoses in India (RCZI) Initiative

Public Health Foundation of India

Sector 44, Gurgaon

India

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[Malay Shah]

Thanks Pranab for initiating. With the passage of time and milestones of varied importance, we start losing interest at least in writing or actively learning from others.
I have been admirer of your and few others skills for last three years at least. However, biggest difficulty I faced among not only among seniors but among cotemporaries was lack of enthusiasm to connect/ share our learning and experiences with each other due to fear and intense jealousy due to very limited arena of our branch explored by our seniors and fastened to our generation as benchmark. When I want that more people like us opt this branch out of choice, it is needless to quote that rapid strengthening of our competencies and enthusiasms are the obvious need of the hour.
Please keep writing as you are blessed with fluidic and effective command of documentations (and obviously you must have worked hard for it too), such honest and realistic disseminations may prove key stones for future of PSM. If I was as good as you, I would love to write why field work is also necessary or why PSM is satisfying like any clinical branch or how PSM has affected health system anywhere in recent times in India etc.

Thanks.

Keep in touch.

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[Ranadip Chowdhury]

Its a very relevant discussion initiated by Pranab.
My take in this regards will be to show the residents of PSM about the broader aspects of the subject beyond teaching in a practical way. Not that we have opportunities to work in public health research ir program but to aware them how people have got success in doing so.  Some case studies stuffs...

Thanks
Ranadip

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[Rochak Saxena]

In a recent state conference of iapsm and ipha, one of the speakers did a SWOT analysis of psm.
Would search for the notes and share them here.
It was quite interesting

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[Pranab Chatterjee]

Thanks a lot Dr. Malay, Dr. Ranadip and Dr. Rochak. It is always a difficult choice to pick up a discipline for your MD; the goal is to have more and more people choosing to come to PSM and not taking it up as a last resort. And we have, I believe, started aggregating some individuals in our rag tag groups, who have undertaken perfectly reasonable deviations off the beaten track.

Can we bring the change that we think the discipline needs? :-) 

You may say I am a dreamer, but I'm not the only one!

Again, thanks a lot for the kind words!
Pranab.

Pranab Chatterjee, MD

Senior Research Associate (Infectious Diseases)

Roadmap to Combat Zoonoses in India (RCZI) Initiative

Public Health Foundation of India

Sector 44, Gurgaon

India

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