IntrOductIOnMedical students need to take and understand considerable new information during their studies especially with the need for evidence based healthcare and they should develop skills for life-long learning, keeping their knowledge updated [1]. There has been a rapid growth in the development of new teaching methods and learning resources and considerable advances in the availability of electronic and mobile resources. Mobile technology is one of the latest extensions of technological innovations that can be integrated into medical education [2]. With the aid of these devices, students learn faster outside the classroom by having quick access to the internet and easy retrieval of required medical and health related learning resources while lecturers/teachers also keep alongside of recent trend and development as it affects their medical teaching and research needs. Also, use of mobile technology will especially help medical students, as in the medical practice learning is a continuous and life-long [3].There is need of integrating new technology in teaching-learning to identify and comprehend key concepts, receive feedback as well as apply concepts to relevant situations in medical practice [4]. Current mobile device technology show promise as an instructional tool, more so because mobile handheld devices are user friendly and more widespread in use. Thus, the concept of M-learning could be introduced as a strategy in learner-centered education. Introducing M-learning may improve ability of teachers and students to adapt to the new technology as a method of teaching-learning [4]. Hence, the use of mobile technology can improve quality of content delivery in educational setting.Impact on students: Mobile technology promotes construction and sharing of knowledge which in turn help students' learning by activating their cognitive processes; explaining and elaborating their own understanding [5]. A research conducted at Taibah University by Khaleel M. Al-Said revealed that there were preferential perceptions (mean of overall fields of perceptions scale was 136.19-"High" level) of students towards M-learning [6]. Several studies found that M-learning was effective, flexible, generated strong interest and positive reaction for integration in classroom teaching-learning [7][8][9][10][11]. However, Waycott and Kukulsca-Hulme indicated the difficulty in using a mobile phone in medical education where students particularly faced the difficulty ABStrActIntroduction: Mobile technology is one of the latest extensions of technological innovations that can be integrated into medical education. With the aid of these devices, students learn faster outside the classroom by having quick access to the internet and easy retrieval of required health related learning resources to keep alongside of recent trend and development. In medicine practice one has to continuously update his/her medical knowledge and mobile learning will serve as a tool for selfdirected learning.

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Wounds Falls Road traffic crashes Occupational injuries a b s t r a c tInjury is a major public health problem in India. As very few studies are available from rural areas, hence the present study was carried out to study the epidemiology of injuries in the rural areas of Maharashtra. A cross-sectional study was carried out in Primary Health Centres (PHC) of a district in Maharashtra. 4790 subjects were studied using a two stage sampling technique. During last one year, 19.0% (95% CI: 17.7%e19.9%) had at least one injury. Majority of injuries (94.0%) were unintentional while assault and suicide related injuries were 37 (4.1%) and 10 (1.1%) respectively. Age, sex, education, occupation and socio-economic status were significantly associated with injuries.ª 2014, Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS). All rights reserved.

Background:India's National Family Welfare Programme is dominated by sterilization, particularly tubectomy. Sterilization, being a terminal method of contraception, decides the final number of children for that couple. Many studies have shown the declining trend in the average number of living children at the time of sterilization over a short period of time. So this study was planned to do time series analysis of the average children at the time of terminal contraception, to do forecasting till 2020 for the same and to compare the rates of change in various subgroups of the population.Materials and Methods:Data was preprocessed in MS Access 2007 by creating and running SQL queries. After testing stationarity of every series with augmented Dickey-Fuller test, time series analysis and forecasting was done using best-fit Box-Jenkins ARIMA (p, d, q) nonseasonal model. To compare the rates of change of average children in various subgroups, at sterilization, analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was applied.Results:Forecasting showed that the replacement level of 2.1 total fertility rate (TFR) will be achieved in 2018 for couples opting for sterilization. The same will be achieved in 2020, 2016, 2018, and 2019 for rural area, urban area, Hindu couples, and Buddhist couples, respectively. It will not be achieved till 2020 in Muslim couples.Conclusion:Every stratum of population showed the declining trend. The decline for male children and in rural area was significantly faster than the decline for female children and in urban area, respectively. The decline was not significantly different in Hindu, Muslim, and Buddhist couples.

Background: This study was to enlighten the prevalence, different types & impact of injuries in elderly population in rural area of middle income country (India).Methods: It was a community based descriptive cross-sectional study, conducted in all 24 villages under one Primary Health Centre of central India. The study was carried out from June 2009 to May 2011.Results: In the present study, prevalence of injury was 17.1%, which was highest among elderly ageing 65-69 years (36.8%) followed by elderly ageing 60-64 years (27.4%). Prevalence of injury was higher (20%) among males as compared to females (14%). Association of age, gender and injury was not statistically significant. Fall was the most common cause (34.7%) of injury followed by occupational (34.0%) and road traffic accidents (15.8%). Superficial injuries were the most common (32.6%) type of injuries followed by fracture (27.3%). Hospital admission required by 24.2% of elderly. We found 34.7% elderly was physically impaired and 26.3% physically disabled due to various injuries.Conclusions: In the present study we found injuries pose a major public health problem in elderly. Therefore there is a need of community based assessment on impact of injury among elderly in various parts of country to formulate appropriate health initiatives for prevention and optimum treatment of injuries in elderly.