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MANIPAL: The curtains on the year-long Silver jubilee celebrations of Manipal College of Nursing (MCON), Manipal will come down with a two-day international conference, the Annual Day and the alumni meet, this weekend.

The celebrations began last year with an international symposium on Gerontology and continued to be engaging with lecture series, seminars, research methodology workshops, felicitations and other events throughout the year.

The international conference, scheduled for January 24 and 25 will be preceded by two pre-conference workshops on January 23. The Silver Jubilee and Annual day is slated for January 24. "It was an eventful year in many ways" said Dean of MCON Manipal, Dr Anice George.

"During the course of the year, we’ve had a number of lectures by the alumni, which proved useful to the students and faculty. A silver jubilee documentary on our college was made, research methodology workshops were held, endowment fund for research was established and so also a fund for monthly morbidity clinics. One of the interesting things to happen during the year was the launch of a journal titled ’Manipal Journal of Nursing and Health Sciences’ and we also felicitated distinguished ex-faculty, staff and advisors of MCON," Dr Anice said.

"There was reason to rejoice when about two months ago we got information that Manipal College of Nursing, Manipal was one of the four nursing colleges in the country to be recognised by the Singapore Nursing Board,’’ she said.

Only three other institutes in the country, AIIMS Delhi, CMC Vellore and College of Nursing Trivandrum have been recognized by the Singapore Board.

About the programmes to be held in the week-end, Dr Anice said Health minister UT Khader would be the chief guest at the inauguration of the International Conference on January 24 at the Dr T.M.A. Pai Hall at 9 am. The theme for the conference is, "Evidence informed Practice: An Approach to Healthcare Reform". Around 600 national and international delegates will be attending the conference.

The pre-conference workshop will have two parallel sessions. One is on "Research Methods" by Dr Denise F Polit, Prof. Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Queensland as the main resource person, and the other is on "Systematic Reviews" to be handled by Dr Kader Parahoo, Professor, Institute of Nursing and Health Research, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland.

And, for the Silver Jubilee as well as the Annual Day function to be held at KMC Greens, Prof Vasudha Kamat, Vice Chancellor, SNDT Women’s University Mumbai will be the chief guest.