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have been reserved for the in-service candidates     Manuals for National Board Trainees                 repository. Candidates can post their thesis on this
               of the state and the counselling for these seats is   If any rules and regulations have to make an       e-space, and examiners can evaluate the work on
               conducted by the state government.                   impact, they must be percolated in the public       the digital platform. This has made the process
                                                                    space where end-users can easily find them,         seamless making it both time and cost effective.
               Setting up of Sponsored                              understand them, and finally, adopt them.           The repository can be accessed by others and acts
               Postgraduate Seats                                   Based on this simple theorem, National Board        as a useful academic resource.
               With effect from the year 2020, National Board       has drawn specific manuals for candidates
               of Examination in Medical Sciences has kept          pursuing DNB programmes in broad specialties,       The Road Ahead
               certain Diplomate of National Board seats as         and fellowship and doctorate programmes in          The National Board has huge plans ahead for the
               sponsored seats, wherein the State Governments       super specialties. These manuals carry detailed     benefit of the community, to augment healthcare
               can nominate in-service candidates for post-         information from the time a candidate takes         facilities by creating learning temples in them and
               graduate and post-doctoral training in NBEMS         admission to the culmination of the academic        to allow greater opportunities for medical doctors
               accredited institutes. This allows the in-service    programme. The manuals were released for the        who wish to specialize into a particular discipline.
               candidates of a state to obtain specialist skills in   postgraduates on March 14, 2022.                  In order to achieve these goals, the board is
               institutions which fall beyond the boundaries of                                                         actively working to  start new academic courses,
               their state.                                         Launch of e-Log Book                                increase postgrad seats, strengthen the externship
                                                                    The National Board has set up a new eDoctorLog      model for trainees and implement  a stipend
               Setting up of National Web                           application. Created for the benefit of DNB,        assistance scheme in coordination with the NITI
               Learning Programme                                   FNB and DrNB trainees and their guides, it is a     Aayog.
               National Board has successfully launched more        simple, imaginative tool wherein the candidates        Plans are afoot to establish state-of-the-art
               than two thousand lectures and presentations         can keep an e-logbook of their clinical cases, thesis   skill labs and simulation centres, wherein trainees
               focusing on more than eighty specialties on web      cases, and the procedures that they may have        in the surgical and interventional specialties
               space. This resource has been hugely welcomed by     observed, assisted and performed. The mentoring     can acquire hands on experience and develop
               the postgraduate trainees working in the district    faculty can access the record to map the progress   necessary skills before stepping into the operating
               and smaller hospitals. This national web learning    of their trainees.                                  rooms. A number of procedures can be carried
               initiative has become an effective teaching                                                              out on mannequins and models, which are so well
               mechanism which has benefitted thousands of          Building a Thesis Repository                        simulated that they can offer a real time feel.
               medical trainees.                                    The National Board has built a digital thesis




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