Vice-President Attends 15th Graduation Day of SUT Academy

The correct answer is the Sree Uthradom Thirunal Academy of Medical Sciences, usually shortened to SUT Academy of Medical Sciences, which held its 15th Graduation Day Ceremony at Thiruvananthapuram with the Vice-President as chief guest. In his address he spoke of the place the institution holds in the healthcare and medical education landscape of Keralam, and welcomed the opening there of Robotic Surgery and Computer-Aided Diagnosis facilities. Option A is wrong because no ceremony at Kozhikode is involved here. Option C names a different and well known institute in the same city, but it is not the host of this graduation ceremony, so it is wrong. Option D is wrong because that institute is not connected with this event either. The pairing to remember for the examination is the Vice-President, the 15th Graduation Day and the SUT Academy of Medical Sciences at Thiruvananthapuram.

The correct answer is 60 women and 32 men. The Vice-President gave these numbers while noting a change he has observed at convocations around the country, namely that women now take home more degrees and medals than men. At the same ceremony 5 women and 2 men received postgraduate degrees, and he called the pattern a welcome development. Option A simply reverses the two figures and is therefore wrong, since it is the women who are in the larger group. Option B is wrong because the split was not equal between the two. Option D is wrong because neither of the numbers it gives matches what was stated. Candidates should keep both sets together in memory, the undergraduate split of 60 and 32 and the postgraduate split of 5 and 2, since a question may ask for either level of the ceremony.

The correct answer is Robotic Surgery and Computer-Aided Diagnosis. The Vice-President said the graduating doctors are entering healthcare at an extraordinary time, with artificial intelligence, robotics, digital health, advanced imaging and precision medicine changing the sector, and in that setting he called the opening of these two facilities significant. He balanced the point by stressing that technology can assist a doctor but cannot replace the human side of the work, because a patient still needs someone who will listen, understand, reassure and take responsibility. Options A, C and D each list services that hospitals do provide, but none of them is named as inaugurated at this ceremony, so all three are wrong. Aspirants should link the two facilities with the wider message that scientific excellence and human compassion have to travel together in medicine.

The correct answer is twelve new AIIMS, against one earlier in New Delhi. While describing how medical education has widened over the previous twelve years, the Vice-President recalled that the country once had a single AIIMS, located in New Delhi, and said that twelve new institutions of that kind have since been set up. He used the point to argue that access to higher education lies at the core of the Viksit Bharat @ 2047 vision articulated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a goal he said can be met only when every State, district and village develops. Options A, B and D are wrong because none of those pairings matches the comparison he drew between the position earlier and the position now. For revision, tie this fact to the same speech in which he asked graduates to carry knowledge in the mind, compassion in the heart and integrity in conduct.