motional intelligence (EI) is the mixture of intellect and emotions. A highly emotional intelligent person showcases the ability to control, understand and being in other’s shoes during the time of difficulties. The EI concept is extremely relevant in health care settings. The concept takes in the art of self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. These concepts in one way or the other help in rearing, mentoring, and reaching the heights of professionalism among medical students. The health care workers particularly doctors needed to be emotionally intelligent and should have maximum of it for effective outcomes and patient satisfaction. The current situation mandates the medical curriculum to have more of emotionally intelligent medical professionals than those with high intelligence quotient. The recent rise of dispute in health care field may be due to the reduction in emotional intelligence which triggers unhealthy recognition of emotions towards patients and bystanders. The need for the current digital and restricted mindset generation is to impart more of values and thus control and regulate one’s own emotions. The study showcases various components, effects, and importance of emotional intelligence and also reviews few studies done on the topic with a special note on its importance in the current situation of Covid pandemic.

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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is becoming a major health concern due to its increasing incidence among adults. There are few studies that suggest the possible relation between hearing loss and chronic kidney disease. So far only a small number of large population - based studies have assessed the relation between CKD and hearing loss. The global prevalence of CKD was 9.1 % (697.5 million cases) in 2017. The age and sex wise global prevalence of CKD was higher in women (9.5 %) than in men (7.3 %). In India, prevalence of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is around 28 % to 77 % among CKD patients. Studies found that the incidence was 77 % for mild to very mild hearing loss and the incidence was 46 % for moderate to severe hearing loss. Various theories behind SNHL in CKD patients are structural similarity between ear and kidney, increased blood viscosity because of hypertension and finally electrolyte imbalance which are all thought to play a role in development of SNHL in CKD patients. Major risk factors for SNHL in CKD patients are duration of CKD, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, serum urea and creatinine levels, electrolyte imbalance, packed cell volume (PCV), ototoxic drugs. CKD being a long-term illness and majority of cases of SNHL in CKD patients are permanent, it has a great negative impact on the patient’s quality of life adding to the disability burden.