Kerala Government Medical Officers’ Association (KGMOA) is the one and only recognised service organization of Doctors working in the Health Services Department of Kerala State.
Amrithakiranam is a novel venture of the KGMOA State committee to promote scientific medicine and healthy living, which is possible only through development of scientific temper among the student community. Since its first edition conducted in January 2017, the Medi-IQ quiz was taken up very enthusiastically by the student community all over Kerala.
Into its fourth edition now, Medi – IQ 2020 will broadly cover the following topics:• Human body (structure and functions)• Health related general knowledge and current affairs.• Medicine: History, Discoveries, Inventions• National health programmes• Basics of health care system
• Non communicable diseases: types, risk factors, prevention• Vaccines and Vaccine Preventable Diseases• Nutrition and breastfeeding• First aid• Adolescent health• Myths about health and Medicine• Unscientific propaganda about health• Unscientific health messages propagating on social media• Genetics• Organ donation• Latest advances in health care• Mental health• New born care• Food adulteration• Nobel prizes in Medicine, Other awards, Day observations related to health
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VENUE - KGMOA HALL , General Hospital Junction , Thiruvananthapuram
DATE - January 11th Saturday 8:30 AM
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RULES AND REGULATIONS OF DISTRICT LEVEL COMPETITION
1. The competition shall be held at two levels: District and State.
2. Only one team per school shall be allowed to take part in the district level
competition which shall be held on 04 January 2020 at the respective district
centres. (Details given in Annexure - 1)
3. Each team shall consist of two students from classes 8 to 10 of the same school.
4. The participants should bring the following documents:
a. A Bonafide certificate (model given in Annexure 2) from the head of the
institution stating their full name and class and certifying that they are
bonafide students of the institutions.
b. Their school identity cards.
5. The students should preferably be accompanied by at least one teacher from the
school.
6. Registration shall be accepted only via SMS / Whatsapp message on any one of
the numbers given in the Annexure -1 (in the approved format). For any queries,
you may contact the same numbers between 2pm and 3pm. Calls at other times
may please be avoided strictly. Please do not send registration message to more
than one number.
7. An acknowledgement message with registration number shall be sent within 24
hours to the same number from which the registration was made. If u do not receive
this message within the stipulated time, kindly confirm the receipt of your
registration through a phone call.
8. Registration shall close at 5 pm on 31 December 2019.
9. District level competition shall have two segments: PRELIMS and FINALS
10.The participants shall report at the venue by sharp 9 am. The prelims round will
start at sharp 10 am.
11.Preliminary round shall be a written exam of 25 multiple choice questions with
negative marks for wrong answers.
12.Six teams scoring highest marks in the prelims shall compete in the finals, which
shall be an AUDIOVISUAL round.
13.Three winners at district level shall be given cash prizes of Rs 5000, Rs 2500, Rs
1000 respectively along with certificates and mementoes.
14.All participating teams shall be given certificates.
15.The first prize winning teams from each district shall represent the district in the
State Level Grand Finale which shall be held on 02 February 2020 at Kollam.
16.Three winners of state level competition shall be awarded Rs.10000, Rs. 5000 and
Rs. 2500 respectively. The first prize winning school at State level shall be given
an ever rolling trophy in addition to prizes to the participants.
17.Details of venue at district level and mode of registration are given in Annexure
below.
