Mangalore: Muller Medi Expo 2023 will be held on October 13 and 14 at Father Muller Convention Center. This is on behalf of the Father Muller Medical College Silver Jubilee celebration of the UG Programme (MBBS) and the Father Muller Research Centre introduces the talents of the Youth of schools in and around Mangalore.
Students will be presenting different models on various projects like, robotic arms, small dialysis machines and painless injections along with health related models and nutrition advice. The expo will have free medical examinations.
The talents of the young minds will be awarded cash prizes
Around 131 groups from various college and schools in and around Mangalore will be showcasing their health models. Categories are as follows; 6th – 8th, 9th -12th, diploma and allied courses. Free entry into the exhibition. The main objective of the expo is to create health awareness among the public and aid young minds into research works.
Oct 13 at 10am will be the inaugural and the exhibition will last for 2 days i.e.; 13th and 14th of October from 9am – 3pm.
The inaugural will be done by Dr Sathyabodh Kulkarni, Dean Research and Consultancy NITK, SURATHKAL. Rev. Fr Richard Aloysius Coelho will preside over the inaugural. Chief of research of the Father Muller Research Centre is the organizer of the event.
To mark the 25 years of MBBS Programme of the Father Muller College various events are schedule for the whole celebratory year.
A thanksgiving Mass will be held on 16 Oct 2023 at 7:30 am in the St Joseph Chapel led by Most Rev. Dr Peter Paul Saldanha, Bishop of Mangalore and President of FMCI. Thereafter at 3.30pm the inaugural ceremony of the 25th Batch of MBBS student for the new academic (23-24) year will be held. Parents and guardian will be present to witness the evnt where Ghana P Kumara, KSPS, Deputy Superintendent of Police Puttur Sub Division will be the chief guest.
The ALUMNI Association led by Dr Archana Bhat (Assoc. Professor General Medicine) who is the first batch student of FMMC and currently the faculty listed the various activities of the association to be held in the silver jubilee year. Various state, international chapters will be opened of the association and the FMCI history will be captured in the Coffee table book to be released next year.
Fr Ajith B Menezes, Administrator FMMC/FMCP/FMCOAHS spoke on the admission process into the medical stream while Dean Dr Antony Sylvan Dsouza spoke on the various activities and increments of seat to be added into the college. Rev Fr Richard Aloysius Coelho Director FMCI welcomed and thanked the gathered for their presence and enlisted the ongoing development in the institutions.
Fr George Jeevan Sequeira, administrator, FMMCH and Fr Nelson Dheeraj Pais, assistant administrator, FMCI, were present.