The Sapthagiri mess

The cbme curriculam is being strictly followed. Most of our classes are SGD sessions but we fail to discuss as most of us have very less knowledge on new topics which the teacher must explain but fail to do so due to the new curriculum rules The SDL's are given weekly which seem like copying in bluebooks and submitting as no one reads what they write. Formative assessments are helpful and are done monthly. Internals are strict and no malpractice is allowed. The new nmc guidelines for attendance is being followed but is a very difficult job for every student to do biometric every hour as we are a class of 250 students.

All the medical students have to compulsorily complete their internship for one year after their final year. You can opt to do it elsewhere by paying the college people or you can do it in our hospital. We are promised a pay of atleast 5000 per month which they always fail to provide despite the strikes and requests. Stipend is not provided to the ug's or pgs properly. But the workload just increases always, there can't be any compromise there or they will cut your attendance. During internship, there are few courses such as BCLS course or other CME's they can attend. Research projects are encouraged but no time is provided.

I have a Government seat in my college, therefore the prescribed fees is Rs 1,41,00/- from the KEA . Along with this I had to pay extra Rs 70,000+ 45,000( miscellaneous) in the first year and just extra Rs 45000 for the next 4 years. The hostel fees is Rs 9,000 per month with food for double sharing room The transport fees is 55000 per year I haven't availed any of these, I am a day scholar. There is SSP scholarship provided by the government and approved by the college which provides approx 56000 every year for the selected qualified students. For a Private seat it ranges from 10-20 LPA. Management seat takes donation of 70 Lakhs to 1 crore plus the private seat fees. Extra miscellaneous fees is 1.5 lakhs for both private and management seat.

Every year , the second year students have to organise the kannada rajyostva and the third year students have to organise Ganesh chaturthi and the fourth year students have to organise the Annual fest usually in the month of May-june. Other than these, there are a few conference and seminars held such as BCLS course, national conferences and international conferences too. Our library can accommodate around 150 people, but the basement library is filled with mosquitos plus this year there was a dengue outbreak in the Library because of that. The computer lab or access to online data is prohibited to the ug's, which is a really bad example as no one uses those systems anyway and they don't provide it to us even on request. We have a system and projector is each room, there will be a few problems on starting them but manageable. Fans don't work properly, and Ac's are just for show. Sports and extracurriculars are encouraged. No social groups or clubs are encouraged.

For my score of 535 in 2021 NEET exam, this is college I was appointed for a government seat as I could not afford a private seat. I wanted a seat in ramaiah or adichunchungiri medical college as they have better infrastructure and facilities with respect to hygiene and the environment. There would be better exposure to patients too in these colleges. If my score was a few marks more then I would have been able to join these colleges. As I had no other option, I chose this college. The admission process was average. They took a very long time to set a date for the admission. After that , they failed to inform us about the documents we needed to submit and the number of copies we needed to submit which made a huge mess during the admission process. The crowd management was bad and the office staff were rude too. Overall the communication was not good and organisation of all the work could have been better handled

This year our college has taken an increased pg load which has made the hospital overcrowded with less opportunity to the pgs. Same goes with the ug's as the load has increased to 250 students per batch which makes each patient crowded with around 10-15 students examining them and making them uncomfortable. There are many good teachers such Dr samapangi Raju from surgery, who always makes time and effort to teach us. Dr Ashwini Nayak U mam from Obgyn who encourages students to do research projects and guides them. Dr Shruthi Shetty from Community Medicine who guides all students in any aspect of medicine. And our Assistant registrar madam Dr sneha from dermatology, who encourages us to participate in extra curriculars . We have 3-5 internals in every subject. Minimum of 5 Formative assessments. Clinical postings exams every 20 days and many assignments along with skit projects and other project works. Usually around 30-50 students fail every year in a batch of 250.