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Requirement of Excellence in Professional
Education
SUNIL SHROFFHOD Professor Urology Renal
Transplantation Sri Ramachandra Medical College
Research Institute (Deemed University)Chennai,
India
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Excellence Education

• Excellence is a Philosophy to be Practiced
• Education is the path on which one needs to
  traverse to achieve Excellence
• The ingredients include
• Discipline
• Intelligence
• Communication
• Enjoyment

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India Shining

• One of the greatest achievements of ancient
  India is in the field of education -
• Takshila (700BC )- The World's first university
  with more than 10,500 students from all over the
  world studied more than 60 subjects
• The University of Nalanda (400 BC)

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What does it mean to excel or to have Excellence?

• According to the American Heritage Dictionary,
  excellence means
• "pre-eminent, extraordinary, surpassing and going
  beyond expectations.
• To exceed a given standard that is ordinary,
  average, terrible or unworthy.
• To be first-rate, first-class, exceptional,
  peerless, matchless, foremost, exemplary,
  top-grade, outstanding, superior, superb,
  superlative, splendid, deserving admiration,
  top-notch, A-1, marvellous, extraordinary,
  awesome, brilliant, fabulous, fantastic,
  heavenly, mind-blowing, stupendous, super,
  terrific, wondrous and pukka (best quality)!
• To be superior in quality, greater in quantity,
  to transcend your job description, and to outdo
  yourself each time.

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150 years of Excellence!!

• Every decade in the last 150 years has seen a
  major revolution !
• We have seen more inventions and discoveries in
  our one lifetime than what all our forefathers
  put together saw in All their lifetimes !!

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150 years of Excellence!!

• 1860 - Steam Engine
• 1870 - Graham Bell Telephone
• 1880 - Edisons Light Bulb
• 1890 - Eastman invented the moving camera
  Entertainment
• 1903 - Henry Ford started the Ford Motor
  Company
• - Wilbur and Orville Wright invented the
  first Aero plane
• 1905 - Einstein describes the Theory of
  Relativity E mc2
• 1930 - Nylon ( Scientist from New York
  London)
• 1940 - Penicillin First Antibiotic
• 1945 - Atomic Bomb
• 1950 - Television Goldmark
• 1960 - Space exploration
• 1970 - Steve and Woz Personal Computer Apple
  invented for playing computer games
• 1971 - Microprocessor Heart of Computer Ted
  Hoff
• 1991 - world wide web Tim Berners - Lee
  discovered
• 2003 - Human Genome Project Completed Book of
  Life Revealed

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If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you
are planning for a decade, plant trees if you
are planning for a lifetime, educate people
Chinese proverb
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Why The Quest for Excellence

• Is it the spark of godliness within us that makes
  us strive towards this goal
• Is it a Gene within some of us that makes us do
  all these wonderful things

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Why The Quest for Excellence

• Or is it actually, the hidden secret power within
  us to consume all and destroy all
• Or Is it the competition that brings the best out
  of us

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What does it take to excel

• To Excel one does not need to do extraordinary
  things,but one needs to do ordinary things
  extraordinarily well.
• Angelique Arnauld

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Flashes of Brilliance or Flashes of God

• The Discovery of Zero gave a whole new meaning to
  Mathematics - Aryabhatta
• The dream that led to revelation of periodic
  table changed the whole field of Chemistry -
  Mendelev
• The discovery that the double helix configuration
  of genes has unfolded the Book of Life Crick
  Watson
• The precision of laws of gravity and the universe
  makes physics so perfect Newton, Einstein

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Experience Excellence Experience God
If a man is called to be a street-sweeper, He
should sweep streets even as - Michelangelo
painted, or Beethoven composed music, or
Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets
so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth
will pause to say here lived a great
street-sweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Great Indians Spirit

• Despite the 800 to 900 yrs of being ruled and
  subdued our spirit to pursue the supreme or to
  excel still survives
• We have a rich heritage and that gives us
  inspiration
• Pursuit for excellence has been mostly
  self-inspired
• Many Indian have migrated overseas and excelled
  in their fields

Our history is over 5000 years old
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The Quest for Excellence Enriching America

• There are 3.22 Million Indians in America
• 38 of Doctors in America are Indians
• 12 of Scientists in America are Indians
• 36 of NASA employees are Indians
• 34 of MICROSOFT employees are Indians
• 28 of IBM employees are Indians
• 17 of INTEL employees are Indians

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Mother of all Civilisations

• Mark Twain said
• India is the cradle of the human race,
• the birthplace of human speech,
• the mother of history,
• the grandmother of legend,
• and the great grand mother of tradition.
• Our most valuable and most constructive
  materials in the history of man are treasured up
  in India only.

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One Language Policy

• Sanskrit is the mother of all the European
  languages. Sanskrit is the most suitable language
  for computer software reported in Forbes
  magazine, July 1987

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Our Great Heritage

• Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known
  to humans
• Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago
  he and health scientists of his time conducted
  complicated surgeries like caesareans,cataract,
  artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones

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The Feel Good Factor

• India invented the Number System. Zero was
  invented by Aryabhatta
• The place value system, the decimal system was
  developed in India in 100 BC
• Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from
  India
• The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana
• The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindh
  6000 years ago
• Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in
  India

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Excellence in Education In India The
Visionaries

• Swami Vivekananda
• Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
• Mahatama Gandhi
• Rabindranath Tagore

The most important skill to acquire now is
learning how to learn John Naisbitt
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Swami Vivekananda - National Resurgence of
Indians through Ramakrishna Mission Movement
Education is the manifestation of the perfection
already in man. Knowledge is inherent in man,
no knowledge comes from outside it is all
inside. What we say a man knows, should, in
strict psychological language, be what he
discovers or unveils. What a man learns is
really what he discovers by taking the cover
off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite
knowledge. All knowledge therefore, secular or
spiritual, is in the human mind. In many cases it
is not discovered, but remains covered, and when
the covering is being slowly taken off, we say
we are learning, and the advance of knowledge
is made by the advance of this process of
uncovering.
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Sri Aurobido Ghosh Education should help in
Spiritual Regeneration of India

• Integral education - Education of the body,
  mind and spirit
• Sri Aurobindo Ashrams educational programmes,
• The Auroville and several other schools of the
  country follow his thought and put it to
  practice

"The first principle of teaching is that nothing
can be taught Sri Aurobido I am always ready
to learn, but I do not always like being taught
Sir Winston Churchill
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Mahatama Gandhi - Education should be linked to
learning and learning to Craft
The real difficulty is that people have no idea
of what education truly is. We assess the value
of education in the same manner as we assess the
value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange
market. We want to provide only such education as
would enable the student to earn more. We hardly
give any thought to the improvement of the
character of the educated. The girls, we say, do
not have to earn so why should they be educated?
As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of
our ever knowing the true value of education.
M. K. Gandhi, True Education
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Rabindranath Tagore Guru-Shishya approach in
natural environment
As one of the earliest educators to think in
terms of the global village, Rabindranath
Tagores educational model has a unique
sensitivity and aptness for education within
multi-racial, multi-lingual and multi-cultural
situations, amidst conditions of acknowledged
economic discrepancy and political imbalance.
Kathleen M. O'Connell
Rabindranath Tagore Asias first Nobel Laureate
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Deficiencies in Our Modern Education

• Our Education is too theoretical
• There is not enough stress on Character and
  Personality Development
• The benchmark of a good school depends on its
  board results percentage of passes
• The system lacks good career counselors

We have had no great visionary in the post
independence period
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Neither Here Nor There

• Our children learn western values but are
  expected to practice eastern culture
• We encourage our children to master English but
  expect them to think in their mother tongue
• Our children Know more about Christ than Krishna
• All this results in Confusion and Stunting of
  thinking power in our children

Early psychologists suggested that people and
animals have an innate propensity to imitate
behaviors they see Morgan, 1896
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Curiosity is the Door that welcomes Education
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that
the modern methods of instruction have not
entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry
Albert Einstein
Children have never been very good at listening
to their elders, but they have never failed to
imitate them. James Baldwin
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Inept Govt. Policies or Price of Democracy

• Birth Control
• Alleviating Poverty
• Promotion of one common Indian Language

Education could have played a major role in all
the three areas
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When do you excel in your profession

• Go beyond just doing a job. Finish the job well.
• Reach beyond just treating a patient. Do it with
  Compassion.
• Desire more than just Making money. Give your
  patients value for their time

Much good work is lost, for the lack of a little
more Edward H. Harriman
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To Excel is to be an Expert in the Subject

• An expert is one who knows more and more about
  less and less
• Nicholas Murray Butler

I am careful not to confuse excellence with
perfection. Excellence, I can reach for
perfection is God's business Lorne A. Adrain
in 'The Most Important Thing I Know'
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Formal Education Not a Prerequisite To Excel

• School and College Drop out who have Excelled
• George Washington
• Bill Gates
• Jane Austen
• George Bernard Shaw
• Dhirubhai Ambani

The quality of a person's life is in direct
proportion to their commitment to excellence,
regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Vincent T. Lombardi
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Excellence as part of National Character

• Every single day, the person of excellence
  (doctor) thinks this way
• "I am not selling my time and soul just working
  for the money. I want to make a big, big
  difference in the lives of others. The world is
  going to be a better place because I am here. I
  am here to cure diseases and relieve man of
  their sufferings

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who
did it. Autograph your work with excellence
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To Excel Is to Go An Extra Mile

• The person of excellence doesn't do just what is
  expected of him
• or her. An excellent person goes beyond the call
  of duty
• The person who is average says,
• - "Hey, this is not my job, I'm not paid to do
  this!"
• However The excellent person says,
• - "I am here to provide the best service
  possible to my clients or customers even if it
  means going the extra mile."

What is easy is seldom excellent Samuel
Johnson
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Professional Mindset

• The person who is mediocre says,
• "Wow, I want to stay out of trouble and cruise
  through my career.
• The Professional pursuer says,
• "Hey, I'm not complacent or satisfied with the
  status quo, I want to be the best person, I can
  be for the glory of God. I want to fulfil the
  highest potential in my life!

Your biggest competitors are not your rivals,
colleagues or classmates. Your greatest
competition comes from yourself !!
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We are what we repeated do, Excellence, then, is
not an act, but a habit. Aristotle
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What it Takes to Excel as a Professional
Creativity is a type of learning process where
the teacher and pupil are located in the same
individual. Arthur Koestler
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Excellence in The Field of Surgery

• Surgery is a field that confers upon its
  practitioners a great deal of personal
  satisfaction.Yet the rewards of surgery come at a
  price.

The field requires a grave sense of
responsibility that entails, in essence, a
lifelong commitment to the pursuit of excellence.
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What it Takes to Excel as a Professional

• Dr. Cushing a famous 19th Century Clinician
  wrote -
• "the physician requires a special combination of
  -
• head and heart
• the surgeon of -
• head, heart and hand-
• a rarer combination which comes partly by gift
  and partly by training."

Tell me, Ill forget. Show me, I may remember.
But involve me and I Ill understand
Chinese Proverb
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Role of Thinking The Head

• The best surgeons are those who make the best
  decisions.
• Excellence in surgery begins with disciplined
  thinking and sound clinical judgement
• Thorough understanding of the disease process and
  a deep knowledge of the basic sciences and
  familiarity with the latest in scientific
  research
• The concept of the clinician/scientist that is
  now universal in academic medicine and is pivotal
  to the concept of excellence in surgery

Trifles make perfection and perfection is no
trifle - Michelangelo
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Compassion Drives The Heart

• Medicine is an inherently compassionate
  profession
• Compassion is what causes a surgeon to make
  patient care his or her first priority,
  regardless of personal convenience
• Compassion is the impetus behind long hours on
  the wards or in the laboratory
• Compassion is what inspires surgeons to donate
  their services when patients cannot afford to pay
  
• Resilience - A surgeon's heart must possess
  Resilience so that he or she can persist in the
  face of setbacks
• Courage - And a surgeon's heart must be
  courageous, to allow him or her to carry out
  procedures that entail significant risk

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A Surgeons - Hand

• Surgical excellence grows out of an entire
  career of disciplined, thoughtful devotion to the
  profession.
• Surgical outcomes depend on making an entire
  process smooth
• Accomplished through teamwork, working toward a
  common goal, are more important than those of an
  individual.
• Hand" also encompasses the responsibility of
  surgeons to police their field through the
  voluntary monitoring of outcomes ( by Audits),
  for an overall improvement in better patient
  care
• Surgeons must share their expertise to ensure
  that the common goal of technical excellence is
  achievable by all.

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Learning and Unlearning
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be
those who cannot read and write, but those who
cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn Alvin
Toffler
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Achieving Excellence By Using Technology

• Computers
• Internet
• Mobile Computing
• Telemedicine
• Tel-education

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Where the mind is without fear    and the head
is held high,    Where knowledge is free Where
the world has not been broken  up into fragments
by narrow domestic walls  Where words come out
from the depth of truth  Where tireless
striving        stretches its arms towards
perfection    Where the clear stream of
reason       has not lost its way into
the  dreary desert sand of dead habit     Where
the mind is led forward  by thee into
ever-widening       thought and action  into
that heaven of freedom,      my Father,        
Let my country awake Rabindranath Tagore
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Excellence in Education

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