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Background: Recently there is growing concern about stress during undergraduate’s medical training. Undue stress may cause adverse health consequences and lowered academic performance. Objective of the study was to know perceived level of stress and its causes among undergraduate medical students.Methods: A cross sectional survey, using self-structured questionnaire, was conducted among 65 third year medical students. Questionnaires were related to socio-demographic profile, perceived stress scale [PSS] and 32 item list of stressors (grouped as health related, academic and psycho-social). Student’s responses were recorded on five point Likert scale.Results: Mean PSS score was 25.53±5.55 and was significantly higher for females. Psycho-social stressors occurred most frequently, followed by the academic causes.Conclusions: Medical undergraduates face high level of stress and the causes may be varied. They need more interaction, counselling and support from faculty to relieve their stress.

Background: Anaemia in pregnancy is one of the major risk among them. This is associated with abortions, premature births, postpartum haemorrhage and low birth weight. Thus anaemia is considered as one of the most frequent complications of pregnancy and there is need of early detection. Methods: Retrospective record based study conducted at Rural Health Training Centre Udairamsar, Bikaner, Rajasthan. Data regarding pregnancy are collected from 1April 2015 to31 March 2016 by referring the records maintained at RHTC. Data was analysed using SPSS 20. Results: A total of 135 pregnant women were registered for ANC care during this one year period. Majority (64.44%) belonged to the age group of 20-25 years and 94.8% were Hindu by religion. 48.18% of pregnant women were registered during first trimester followed by 28.88% who had registered during second trimester and rest at third trimester. Prevalence of anaemia in the present study was found to be 89.26% with 121 cases among which 92 cases were mild form, 28 cases were moderate form and only 1 case was of severe form with Haemoglobin level below 7g/dl. The study didn't show any significant association between anaemia and booking trimester. Conclusions: There is high prevalence (85.2%) of anemia among pregnant women. It was also noted that 45.1% of the pregnant women registered after first trimester of pregnancy. Hence leading to late acceptance of antenatal care and iron and folic acid supplementation which is given to reduce the cases of anemia in pregnancy.

Background: Different types of waste are generated during healthcare activities. The waste so generated has chance of causing serious infection and also injury to persons who come in contact with it whether the contact is direct or indirect. Safe and sustainable health care waste management is not possible without a favourable attitude among health care providers. The objective of the study was to assess the attitude of Intern doctors and B.Sc. nursing students: the future health care providers, regarding various aspects of Biomedical Waste (Management and handling) Rules. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. The study was conducted amongst Intern doctors and B.Sc. nursing students posted at Prince Bijay Singh Memorial (PBM) and associated group of hospitals attached to Sardar Patel Medical College, Bikaner. Results: In the study out of 204 respondents, 54.4% were B.Sc. nursing students and 45.6% were intern doctors. Statistically significant difference was seen in overall attitude of study population belonging to different professional group regarding biomedical waste management. Overall the attitude of study group was favourable. Conclusions: Favourable attitude of health care workers will go a long way in better implementation of biomedical waste management rules and thereby help in decreasing adverse health effects of improper waste handling.