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Author(s): Anita Malik [1]; Monica Kohli [1]; Jayashree Sood [2]; Baljit Singh [3]; Balakrishnapillai Radhakrishnan [4]; Muralidhar Kanchi (corresponding author) [5] INTRODUCTION The new National Education Policy (NEP), based on [...], The primary objective of postgraduate medical education is to produce specialists who provide highest quality of health care to suffering patients and return them to the community in the most functional capability. The secondary objective is to advance the cause of science through research and training. A postgraduate, after undergoing the required training in anaesthesiology, should be able to recognise the health needs of the community and apply cognitive and psychomotor skills to provide optimal anaesthetic care. Additionally, the anaesthesiologist should function as a perioperative physician being adept in perioperative care, pain medicine and critical care medicine. The 3-year postgraduate curriculum comprises experience in basic, subspeciality and advanced anaesthesia training. This structured training programme with a curriculum of increasing difficulty and learning incorporates ascending grades of difficulty, posing a challenge to the trainee's intellect and technical skills. Experience in basic anaesthesia training is aimed to lay stress on basic and fundamental aspects of anaesthetic management. Subspeciality anaesthesia training is needed to lay stress on the theory, special considerations and practice of subdisciplines of anaesthesiology. This document proposes a modular-structured, continuous, objectively evaluated, systematic training process that is monitored frequently and periodically, such that the trainee, at the end of training, is capable of appropriate anaesthetic management of disease conditions in a wide variety of situations. Keywords: Anaesthesiology, continuing medical education, curriculum, postgraduate medical education

It is an exploration of the inherent wound-healing tendency of Azadirachta indica gum (AIG) or neem gum polysaccharides to develop the hydrogel wound dressings with enhanced potential during wound management. Herein this research work, antibiotic moxifloxacin encapsulated AIG network copolymeric hydrogels were developed by functionalizing with carbapol and poly(acrylamide) [poly(AAm)] for better wound healing. The polymer-drug, polymer-blood, and polymer-bio membrane interactions were evaluated in biomedical properties. The copolymeric network structure was confirmed by scanning electron micrographs (SEMs), atomic force microscopy (AFM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and [sup.13]C solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. The results confirmed sustained release of the moxifloxacin with diffusion by non-Fickian process and Korsmeyer-Peppas kinetic model in the phosphate buffer saline (PBS). These interactions inferred the blood-compatible (hemolytic index 3.41 [+ or -] 0.70%) and mucoadhesive nature (polymer-biomembrane detachment force 0.09 [+ or -] 0.01 mN) of hydrogel dressing. The per gram of hydrogel dressings absorbed 10.22 [+ or -] 0.23 g of simulated wound fluid which is very useful to maintain moist wound environment for better wound healing. All these interactions and properties indicated the suitability of the hydrogel material for wound dressing applications for better wound care. KEYWORDS grafting, hydrogel dressing, moxifloxacin, neem gum, wound healing, 1 | INTRODUCTION Recently various polysaccharides have been applied for wound-healing process for better wound care due to their biocompatible and antioxidant nature. [1] The polysaccharide gums have been used [...]