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Becoming a doctor requires acquisition of a sound knowledge about people, their diseases and how to treat them. However, to achieve the state of a successful and respectable medical professional, development of one’s personality is equally important. Possession of soft skills for a healer such as empathy, humility, leadership and communication skills is now emphasized more than ever. Nonetheless, medical curricula worldwide are known to be loaded with information, and with much focus on successful delivery of knowledge, development of these soft skills in a medical undergraduate is sometimes not adequately addressed.

Being aware of this void, PeMSAA decided that it needs to play a role in inculcating these skills among the budding doctors. The new PeMSAA lecture series on Soft Skills Development is the outcome of this decision. These lectures will sensitize medical students to attributes that they are expected to consciously develop in themselves in order to become worthy successors to Hippocrates..

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Successful Learning amidst Present Challenges (For Medical Students and A/L Students)
අභියෝග හමුවේ සාර්ථක අධ්‍යාපනයක්
Dr. Chaminda Weerasiriwardana
Senior Counselor and Psychotherapist, National Hospital, Kandy
2021-08-06

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Attire and Etiquette for the Smart Professional
Ms. Aruni Wickramage
Managing Director, Olanway Institute of Language & Technology
2021-06-26

A programme of conducting regional clinical meetings in association with clinical societies in the peripheries was proposed by Prof. Vasanthi Pinto during her tenure as the President. It was an initiative to reach out to the alumni rendering services at various peripheral institutes, and disseminate contextually relevant knowledge. Along with that, there was the opportunity to strengthen the bond between them and the PeMSAA. However, this endeavour did not materialize as the COVID-19 pandemic became a hindrance to organizing any such event.

While physical gatherings were no longer possible, the new Council was resolute on implementing this programme nonetheless. Adapting to the new normal, “Regional Clinical Meetings” are now being conducted virtually. The first session was organized in association with ‘Ratnapura Clinical Society. The second session was organized in association with ‘Matale Clinical Society’.

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Management of Common NCDs at Primary Care
Speakers: Prof. Udaya Ralapanawa, Professor in Medicine & Consultant Physician, Dr. Gowri Ratnayake, Consultant Endocrinologist

Moderator: Dr. Chathurika Dandeniya, Senior Lecturer & Consultant Rheumatologist
2022-02-02
Organized in Collaboration with Matale Clinical Society

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COVID-19: Addressing the Conundrums of the General Practitioner
Speaker: Dr. Neranjan Dissanayake, President of Ratnapura Clinical Society & Consultant Pulmonologist

Moderator: Dr. Duminda Yasaratne, Senior Lecturer & Consultant Pulmonologist
2021-09-12
Organized in Collaboration with the Ratnapura Clinical Society

 “My Batch with our PeMSAA” webinar series is the brainchild of Prof. Vasanthi Pinto, President, PeMSAA 19/20. It was the perfect solution for the dissemination and sharing of scientific knowledge and expertise during the COVID-19 pandemic that prevented hosting of any kind of physical forum.

“My Batch with our PeMSAA” webinars provided a common interactive platform to alumni spread across the world. It also created a wonderful opportunity for the batch mates to socialize and for PeMSAA to create new bonds as well as strengthen existing bonds with alumni. Five batch webinars were held during the year 2020 and more batches are lined up to have their own in time to come.

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COVID-19: The less talked about aspects
Batch 1987/88
2021-09-19

Speakers

Dr. Ruad Perera (MBBS, MD, FRACP)
Associate Professor & Consultant Respiratory Physician, Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australian TB Control Program & University of Western Australia

Dr. Bandula Bandaranayake (MBBS, MD)
Consultant ENT Surgeon, Sirimavo Bandaranayake Specialized Children’s Hospital, Peradeniya

Dr. Ashoka Wijayananda (MBBS, MD)
Consultant Anaesthesiologist & Intensivist, Sirimavo Bandaranayake Specialized Children’s Hospital, Peradeniya

Moderator

Dr. Indu nanayakkara (MBBS, MPhil, PhD)
Senior Lecturer, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya

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Kicked to Fifties and Beyond Sixties: A healer’s journey
Batch 1991/92
2021-07-24

Speakers

Dr. Sajeewana Amarasingha (MBBS, MD)
Consultant Psychiatrist, National Institute of Mental Health, Mulleriyawa New Town

Dr. Ruwan Bandara (MBBS)
Medical Officer, Base Hospital, Mawanella

Prof. Sanjaya Adikari (MBBS, PhD)
Professor of Anatomy, Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya

Moderator

Dr. Kanchana Edirisinghe (MBBS, MS, MRCS)
Consultant Urologist, National Hospital, Kandy