On the 8th and 9th of November, Goa Medical College celebrated 25 years of the existence of their Dept. of Neurosurgery. Two students of the Marian Institute, Glinis Braganza and Lyka Da Costa, attended this event and later shared their experiences with the rest of the class.

The event included speakers mostly eminent neurosurgeons like Dr Vijay Kak, Dr Thimappa Hegde & Dr Tandon (Dean of AIIMS) as well as medico legal expert Dr Gopinath Shenoy, Dr Vina Vaswani MD from Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, and Dr Oscar Rebello.

The topics covered included 

• Medical Ethics past, Present & Future
• End-of-Life Situations, Sharing decisions, caring dignity
• Civil & Criminal Liability of Doctors 
• Euthanasia 
• Progress and Prospects of Neuroscience in India
• Personal Vision
• Death & Dying 
• Latest technology in removal of emboli in the brain
• Communication & the patient doctor relationship