Two twin city girls get 22 gold medals in AIIMS Bhubaneswar convocation

Manisha Mohanty, 2013 MBBS batch and Rosalin Parida, 2014 MBBS batch.Manisha Mohanty, 2013 MBBS batch and Rosalin Parida, 2014 MBBS batch.
BHUBANESWAR: Two twin city girls, who completed their MBBS in AIIMS Bhubaneswar, received 22 gold medals in the annual convocation of the institute held on Saturday. Cuttack's Rosalin Parida, 2014 MBBS batch, received 13 gold medals, while Bhubaneswar's Manisha Mohanty, 2013 MBBS batch, got nine gold medals in the second and third annual convocation of the institute.

Rosalin, daughter of a forest department employee, belongs to Cuttack city. She is now pursing PG (medicine) in AIIMS Delhi, topped in nine out of 12 subjects in her undergraduate medical course. She received gold medals for the subjects like physiology, biochemistry, pathology, pharmacology, forensic medicine and toxicology, general medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, community and family medicine and paediatrics.


Besides these, she received gold medal for being the best graduate (MBBS) of the year 2014. She also won Nabakishore Mahapatra Gold Medal for biochemistry, Kamal Udaya Gold Medal for pharmacology and gold medal in memory of professor JM Senapati in physiology. "I feel proud that I became the best graduate of 2014 batch of the institute. I want to work in the field of medicine," she added.

After completion of the MBBS course last year, she applied for PG entrance test and got into AIIMS Delhi this year.


Manisha Mohanty, second batch of the institute, stays with her parents at Baramunda in Bhubaneswar. She topped in six subjects. She received gold medals in anatomy, community and family medicine, microbiology, forensic medicine and toxicology, general medicine and biochemistry.


She also received gold medal for being the best graduate (MBBS) of the year 2013. She received the memorial gold medal for microbiology in the memory of Professor L N Mohapatra and Nabakishore Mahapatra Gold Medal for biochemistry.


Manisha, daughter of a chemical engineer, has topped PG entrance test for National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (Nimhans), Bengaluru. "I will pursue higher study in neurology," she added.


K Shreenath Reddy, president of Public Health Foundation of India, attended the function as chief guest. Among others, president of AIIMS Bhubaneswar Subrat Acharya and director of AIIMS Bhubaneswar Gitanjali Batmanabane, faculty members and students attended the convocation.
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