Chennai to host Edinburgh’s Royal College of Surgeons’ conference in October
The Hindu
This is the first time the 517-year-old institution will hold meet outside England
The Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, will hold its first international conference in Chennai in October.
This is the first time the 517-year-old institution will hold a meeting outside England, said its first Indian vice-president Pala Rajesh.
The three-day conference, ‘Beyond COVID-19: Impact and innovation’, will have sessions in various specialities for doctors and a training symposium for postgraduate medical students.
The training session will be held in the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University.
Dr. Rajesh said the organisation had over 30,000 members of which around 1,200 were from India alone.
The RCSEd conducts training and examinations for doctors in several centres in the country.
According to him, the event, being held from Oct. 5 to 8, would be a knowledge-sharing platform where doctors from across the globe and all specialities would share their experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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