Interview with our topper Dr. Mayank Bansal

Interview with our topper Dr. Mayank Bansal

Dr Mayank Bansal did his MBBS from Christian Medical College, Ludhaina and joined DAMS T&D 3 Regd no DL00780

He secured Rank 18^th IN Punjab PMET 2012 Exam

DAMS: Congratulations on securing a good ranks. What is the secret of your success in this exam?
Dr. Mayank Bansal : Consistence hard work, guidance of DAMS teachers and seniors.

DAMS: How did your parents, family and friends contribute to your success?
Dr. Mayank Bansal : Contributions of parents is un explainable in words. Today where I am is just because of my parents, family and friends. They have been a great support and pillar of strength in my life.

DAMS: Who influenced you to take up Medicine?
Dr. Mayank Bansal : My father.

DAMS: We appreciate the fact that preparing for an extremely competitive exam must be really challenging. During your preparation, did you ever doubt your ability to succeed in it?
Dr. Mayank Bansal : Never, as DAMS was always there at my back. My friends and family helped me to wash out negative thoughts out of my mind

DAMS: Which books did you read for the theory part?
Dr. Mayank Bansal : Gobind Rai Pharmacology, Rachna Chaurisia Micro, Arvind Arora Pathology, Amits Ashish Medicine & Surgery, Soumya Shukla Short Subjects & DAMS class notes

DAMS : Which books did you read for MCQ revision? Which revision books were the most productive and which were least?
Dr. Mayank Bansal : Amit Ashish & Mudit Khanna most productive

DAMS : How important you think was DAMS in your preparation ?
Dr. Mayank Bansal : very important, it helped me to prepare well and clear my basics by taking lots of tests by dividing the syllabus into parts

DAMS: What do you think is the better way of preparation between selective, intensive study and wide, extensive study? What did you choose as your style of studying?
Dr. Mayank Bansal : wide extensive study in MBBS & selective intensive study in Internship

DAMS: Indian PG entrances are highly competitive so to compete them students end up in appearing in multiple PG exams , kindly extend your views on this and also their pros and cons of appearing in multiple PG entrances .
Dr. Mayank Bansal : One should focus on one or two exams and should give as many exams as it helps to overcome the phobia.

DAMS: Which subjects did you focus on?
Dr. Mayank Bansal : Medicine, Pharm, Micro

DAMS: What was your strategy for the exam day? How many questions did you attempt and why?
Dr. Mayank Bansal : 280 out of 300 and no particular strategy but to remain cool and calm

DAMS: What do you want to specialize in, why and where?
Dr. Mayank Bansal : Medicine

DAMS: Which teachers in DAMS influenced you most and what do you like about DAMS and would recommend to your juniors?
Dr. Mayank Bansal : Dr. Sumer Sethi Radiology & Dr. Siddarth Paediatrics & Dr. Varun Gupta , Pharma & Dr. Rajiv ENT

Interview with our topper Dr.Rahul Aggarwal

Interview with our topper Dr.Rahul Aggarwal

Dr.Rahul Aggarwal did his MBBS from PGIMS, Rohtak and joined DAMS T&D course regd no. DL 01224

He secured Rank 4 IN Haryana PG AND 54 IN Manipal.

DAMS: Congratulations on securing a good ranks. What is the secret of your success in this exam?
Dr.Rahul Aggarwal: Lots and lots of hard work.

DAMS: How did y:our parents, family and friends contribute to your success?
Dr.Rahul Aggarwal: It would have been impossible without them. and its only because of my parents and my friends that i didn’t stop believing in myself.

DAMS: Who influenced you to take up Medicine?
Dr.Rahul Aggarwal: My parents

DAMS: We appreciate the fact that preparing for an extremely competitive exam must be really challenging. During your preparation, did you ever doubt your ability to succeed in it?
Dr.Rahul Aggarwal: Many times … The more I thought about the result the more I got frustrated….then I gave up thinking about future and decided I will give my 100 % efforts … nothing else is in my hands

DAMS: Which books did you read for the theory part?
Dr.Rahul Aggarwal: For the reference purpose, medicine(Harrison), Pathology(Robbin’s), Obstetrics(DUTTA), physiology(Ganong), Pharm(KDT), Biochem(Harper), SPM(Park)

DAMS : Which books did you read for MCQ revision? Which revision books were the most productive and which were least?
Dr.Rahul Aggarwal: Across for all short subjects. Revise short subjects before exams in a very quick time ,it really boosts the confidence. Medicine and surgery Amit Ashish were really good. Rachna Chaurasia for Micro, Gobind Garg for Pharma, Sakshi Arora for OBG& ENT, arvind arora for paedes, spm, pathology.

DAMS : How important you think was DAMS in your preparation ?
Dr.Rahul Aggarwal: Couldn’t have done without DAMS. They were I think a keystone in my preparation. DAMS course is well planned and covers a whole syllabus well on time.

DAMS: What do you think is the better way of preparation between selective, intensive study and wide, extensive study? What did you choose as your style of studying?
Dr.Rahul Aggarwal: Selective Intensive Study

DAMS: Indian PG entrances are highly competitive so to compete them students end up in appearing in multiple PG exams , kindly extend your views on this and also their pros and cons of appearing in multiple PG entrances .
Dr.Rahul Aggarwal: appearing in different exams gives us a chance of succeeding in one if not another. Papers are different from exam to exam and your performance varies too

DAMS: Which subjects did you focus on?
Dr.Rahul Aggarwal: Short subjects

DAMS: What was your strategy for the exam day? How many questions did you attempt and why?
Dr.Rahul Aggarwal: sleep well before the exam day ,stay calm i attempted 284 questions in aipge.

DAMS: What do you want to specialize in, why and where?
Dr.Rahul Aggarwal: paediatrics from rohtak.

DAMS: Which teachers in DAMS influenced you most and what do you like about DAMS and would recommend to your juniors?
Dr.Rahul Aggarwal: Dr Sumer Sethi , Dr Varun gupta, Dr Rajiv tiwari
I especially liked the student friendly atmosphere And would recommend DAMS to my juniors.

INTERVIEW WITH OUR TOPPER DR. VISHAL VERMA

INTERVIEW WITH OUR TOPPER DR. VISHAL VERMA

Dr. Vishal Verma did his MBBS from Dr.S.C.Govt. Medical College, Nanded, Maharashtra; & joined DAMS in 2011 Regd no. DL01198.

He secured:

· RANK 43 IN PUNJAB PGET 2012,

· RANK 271 IN MHPGCET 2012,

· RANK 1035 IN AIPGMEE 2012.

DAMS: Congratulations on securing good ranks. What is the secret of your success in this exam?
Dr Vishal Verma: The secret is hard work with positive attitude, dedication and the perfect guidance I got from DAMS. The DAMS faculty was very cooperative and helpful and was always keen to render assistance to every student.

DAMS: How did your parents, family and friends contribute to your success?
Dr Vishal Verma: My family has always been a tremendous support for me and it was impossible to achieve all this without their wonderful support.

DAMS: Who influenced you to take up Medicine?
Dr Vishal Verma: My parents and family members.

DAMS: We appreciate the fact that preparing for an extremely competitive exam must be really challenging. During your preparation, did you ever doubt your ability to succeed in it?
Dr Vishal Verma: To be honest, I did doubt myself once, but thanks to Dr. Sumer Sethi, who made me believe in myself and focus on target with a beam of positive attitude.

DAMS: Which books did you read for the theory part?
Dr Vishal Verma: I read the standard textbooks like harrisons and bailey & love during MBBS days. It is an extremely difficult task to go through these books with the exam head-on, as there is always a shortage of time and 20 subjects are to be covered. So I primarily followed DAMS classroom notes, which were actually helpful in solving at least 8 out of 10 questions.

DAMS : Which books did you read for MCQ revision? Which revision books were the most productive and which were least?
Dr Vishal Verma: Amit Ashish for medicine and surgery, Dr. Ruchi Rai for Ophthalmology, Dr. Sumer Sethi for Radiology, Dr. Premanshu Bhushan for Skin and of course THE FIVE VOLUMES (MK & AA)

Across was less productive as there are too many mistakes.

DAMS : How important you think was DAMS in your preparation ?
Dr Vishal Verma: “What does PG preparation mean, & how to accomplish it systematically and successfully?” Had I not been a Damsonian, I would have said, “I don’t know”

I think I need not say anything further....

DAMS: What do you think is the better way of preparation between selective, intensive study and wide, extensive study? What did you choose as your style of studying?
Dr Vishal Verma: What is actually required is an optimum balance between these two ways, so that you can have sufficient number of revisions done. You should know which subjects/ topics you are better at, and then decide which topics you can go through quickly, and which ones require more time.

DAMS: Indian PG entrances are highly competitive so to compete them students end up in appearing in multiple PG exams , kindly extend your views on this and also their pros and cons of appearing in multiple PG entrances .
Dr Vishal Verma: It is always wise to appear in multiple exams, as it helps you to define the strategy for those 3-3.5 hours of exam. But one thing is very important. It’s that your focus should be only one exam. For example, as in my case, I focussed on AIPG and my whole preparation was targeted for AIPG only. I never deviated from this target, though I appeared for 3-4 exams in between.

DAMS: Which subjects did you focus on?
Dr Vishal Verma: The bigger ones, including patho, pharma, micro, medicine, surgery, psm, obgy need thorough study to ensure that you qualify. But most students are relatively weaker in short subjects, SARP(skin, anaesthesia, radiology & psychiatry) and BAP(biochemistry, anatomy & physiology), so these become rank defining.

DAMS: What was your strategy for the exam day? How many questions did you attempt and why?
Dr Vishal Verma: stress, tension and nervousness are on the cards for each and every candidate on the day of exam. So firstly you need to hold firmly your mind, heart, brain, etc., so that these remain in your control and you don’t panic. Usually 250-275 is the recommended attempt. I did 275.

DAMS: What do you want to specialize in, why and where?
Dr Vishal Verma: I am interested in orthopaedics.

DAMS: Which teachers in DAMS influenced you most and what do you like about DAMS and would recommend to your juniors?
Dr Vishal Verma: I pay my utmost regards and thanks to each and every teacher at DAMS, without whom it was simply an impossible task for me. The best thing about DAMS is the simplicity of teaching even the most complicated topics. The DAMS exclusive club on facebook is a boon for instant solutions to your queries, and also for correction of the mistakes in various guidebooks. To my juniors I would simply say that DAMS has a clear edge above all others, and especially with the NEET pattern coming up, DAMS is the only institute which is providing NEET-based coaching for the past few years, and teachers at DAMS are definitely the best predictors of potential MCQs for future.

Interview with our topper Dr Madhurya B

Interview with our topper Dr Madhurya B

Dr Madhurya B did her MBBS from KIMS, Hubli & joined DAMS Bangalore Regd no 13959
She secured Rank 24 IN KCET Exam

DAMS: Congratulations on securing a good ranks. What is the secret of your success in this exam?
Dr.Madhurya B : Determination and hardwork

DAMS: How did y:our parents, family and friends contribute to your success?
Dr.Madhurya B : Not just contribution ,the success entirely belongs to my family, their help support and motivation without which i am nothing. I thank my GOD Almighty for blessing me with such lovely mom dad and brothers.

DAMS: Who influenced you to take up Medicine?
Dr.Madhurya B : My dad encouraged me and my mom and elder brother both doctors inspired me to take up medicine.

DAMS: We appreciate the fact that preparing for an extremely competitive exam must be really challenging. During your preparation, did you ever doubt your ability to succeed in it?
Dr.Madhurya B : Yes many a times during my breaks when I used to think of exams results and high competition otherwise when I was into my studies i used to forget all these.

DAMS: Which books did you read for the theory part?
Dr.Madhurya B : I used to refer to standard text books[harrisons, robbins, park ,katzung, ananthnarayan and others] to study selected important topics and dams class notes.

DAMS : Which books did you read for MCQ revision? Which revision books were the most productive and which were least?
Dr.Madhurya B : AA,MK , sowmya shukla, garag for pharmac, ramgopal for kcet

DAMS : How important you think was DAMS in your preparation ?
Dr.Madhurya B : DAMS helped me in completing the subjects timely as I used to coincide my timetable with DAMS class schedule, DAMS GTs helped me to correct myself the mistakes I used to commit in the previous exams.

DAMS: What do you think is the better way of preparation between selective, intensive study and wide, extensive study? What did you choose as your style of studying?
Dr.Madhurya B : Selective intensive.

DAMS: Indian PG entrances are highly competitive so to compete them students end up in appearing in multiple PG exams , kindly extend your views on this and also their pros and cons of appearing in multiple PG entrances .
Dr.Madhurya B : Attending multiple pg exams makes us realize the seriousness of heavy competition, the importance of a single MCQ ,helps us to correct ourselves simple mistakes which matters a lot.

DAMS: Which subjects did you focus on?
Dr.Madhurya B : I gave equal importance to all subjects.

DAMS: What was your strategy for the exam day? How many questions did you attempt and why?
Dr.Madhurya B : As there was no negative marking i attempted all 200

DAMS: What do you want to specialize in, why and where?
Dr.Madhurya B : In pediatrics.

DAMS: Which teachers in DAMS influenced you most and what do you like about DAMS and would recommend to your juniors?
Dr.Madhurya B : I enjoyed attending every DAMS class. Every teacher has influenced me.

I like their Concept based teaching which helps us to have command on the subject.

Advices to my juniors take every class and GT seriously missing one class is like missing many things.

Interview with our topper Dr Gajanan.Ashok.Panandikar

Interview with our topper Dr Gajanan. Ashok. Panandikar

Dr.GAJANAN.ASHOK.PANANDIKAR did his MBBS from Goa Medical College & joined

DAMS Bangalore Regd no. BA 03351.

He secured Rank 31 in AIPGME

and Rank 85 in Nov AIIMS Exam

DAMS: Congratulations on securing a good ranks. What is the secret of your success in this exam?
Dr.Gajanan.Ashok.Panandikar: Hard work, dedication and will to succeed.

DAMS: How did y:our parents, family and friends contribute to your success?
Dr.Gajanan.Ashok.Panandikar: Nothing would have been possible without my family who always supported me...my brother and sister who kept motivating me and my ma, papa who were a inspiration for me...also i would like to mention my uncle who always believed in me but sadly passed away few yrs back...also my friends who stood by me when i needed them and also one with whom i used to discuss...

DAMS: Who influenced you to take up Medicine?
Dr.Gajanan.Ashok.Panandikar: I always wanted to take up medicine since i was a child....my father who is an mechanical engineer always told me to work hard to fulfil my dream...

DAMS: We appreciate the fact that preparing for an extremely competitive exam must be really challenging. During your preparation, did you ever doubt your ability to succeed in it?
Dr.Gajanan.Ashok.Panandikar: yeah...u always go through this phase when you begin to doubt yourself while preparing for entrance but it’s important to keep believing in yourself...

DAMS: Which books did you read for the theory part
Dr.Gajanan.Ashok.Panandikar: ganong harper, robbins, Harrison ,dutta obg, nelson, park, ajay yadav , sumer sethi for radio, sparsh gupta-pharmac,scwartz surgery,

DAMS : Which books did you read for MCQ revision? Which revision books were the most productive and which were least?
Dr.Gajanan.Ashok.Panandikar: amit ashish and mudit khanna( 10 yrs)-most productive, arvind arora –micro,psm...good

across wasn’t that productive as expected

DAMS : How important you think was DAMS in your preparation ?
Dr.Gajanan.Ashok.Panandikar: DAMS tests are one of the toughest and getting good marks in it boosts your confidence...it also helped in time management and also prevent silly mistakes which cost me my rank in nov aims...

DAMS: What do you think is the better way of preparation between selective, intensive study and wide, extensive study? What did you choose as your style of studying?
Dr.Gajanan.Ashok.Panandikar: I started studying in July so didn’t have time for extensive study...but i think wide extensive study should be done during MBBS and selective intensive for entrance...

DAMS: Indian PG entrances are highly competitive so to compete them students end up in appearing in multiple PG exams , kindly extend your views on this and also their pros and cons of appearing in multiple PG entrances .
Dr.Gajanan.Ashok.Panandikar: Giving multiple exams gives you more opportunities and gives you a lot of practice before the main exam. Also you get new knowledge about some topics...

DAMS: Which subjects did you focus on?
Dr.Gajanan.Ashok.Panandikar: Physio, biochem,patho,pharmac,micro,psm,surgery,gynaec,paedo,medicine...but all subjects are important....

DAMS: What was your strategy for the exam day? How many questions did you attempt and why?
Dr.Gajanan.Ashok.Panandikar: My strategy was to keep my cool and don’t make errors in marking answers...I attempted 287 questions...

DAMS: What do you want to specialize in, why and where?
Dr.Gajanan.Ashok.Panandikar: Its my dream to specialise in internal medicine and later may be interventional cardiology...may take in KEM,Mumbai or MAMC,Delhi cause they have the best faculty there.