Manipal Journal of Medical Sciences
MANIPAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES - EDITORIAL BOARD 1. Editor-In-Chief Dr. Krishnananda Prabhu R. V. Associate Dean, FAIMER fellow, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, KMC, Manipal, MAHE, Manipal, Karnataka, India -576104 Email: krishnananda.prabhu@manipal.edu, Phone - 9844380157 2. Managing Editor Dr Murlimanju B.V. Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy, KMC, Mangalore Email: murali.manju@manipal.edu Phone – 9008482904 3. Associate Editor - Medical Dr Sneha Deepak Mallya, Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, KMC, Manipal, Email- sneha.kamath@manipal.edu, Phone – 9880893371 4. Associate Editor - Dental Dr Shaswata Karmakar, Reader, Department of Periodontology, MCODS, Manipal, Email -shaswata.karmakar@manipal.edu 5. Section editor – Medical Dr Vinay AV, Professor & Head, Department of Physiology, MTMC, Jamshedpur, Email - vinay.av@manipal.edu, Phone – 9880966679 6. Section editor – Medical Dr Vijay Kautilya D, Associate Dean- Paraclinical, Professor & Head, Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, MTMC, Jamshedpur, Email-Vijay.kautilya@manipal.edu, Phone-9448651848 7. Section editor – Medical Dr Ashim Mishra, Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, MTMC, Jamshedpur, Email-ashim.mishra@manipal.edu, Phone- 8391934762 8. Section editor – Medical Dr Sameer Wooly, Professor & Head, Department of Orthopedics, MTMC, Jamshedpur, Email-sameer.wooly@manipal.edu, Phone-7760219100 9. Section editor – Dental Dr P. Kalyan Chakravarthy, Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Dentistry, MCODS, Manipal, Email -kalyan.cp@manipal.edu 10. Section editor – Dental Dr. Ravikiran Ongole, HOD, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, MCODS, Mangalore, Email-ravikiran.ongole@manipal.edu 11. Section editor – Dental Dr. Srikant N, HOD & Co-ordinator - MU Centres, Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, MCODS, Mangalore, Email-srikant.n@manipal.edu 12. Section editor – Dental Dr. Nidhin Philip Jose, Associate Professor, Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, MCODS, Mangalore, Email- nidhin.philip@manipal.edu 13. Section editor – ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES Dr. Venkataraja Aithal U., Associate Dean, Professor (Dept of Speech and Hearing), MCHP, MAHE, Manipal, Email-vrajaithal@manipal.edu, Phone- 9380495415 /9448824363 14. Section editor – ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES Dr. Shwetha T.S., Associate Professor and Ethicist, Department of Clinical Psychology, Manipal College of Health Professions(MCHP), MAHE, Manipal, Karnataka, India, Email-shwetha.ts@manipal.edu, Phone-9880993080 15. Section editor – PHARMACEUTICAL Usha Yogendra Nayak, Associate Professor - Senior Scale Pharmaceutics, MCOPS, Manipal, Email-usha.nayak@manipal.edu 16. Section editor – PHARMACEUTICAL Dr Srinivas Mutalik, HOD, Department of Pharmaceutics, MCOPS, Manipal, Email-ss.mutalik@manipal.edu 17. External editor – Medical Dr Rajasekharan Warrier, Professor, Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Ochsner Center for Children New Orleans, USA, Email-rwarrier@ochsner.org 18. External editor – Medical Dr Sudhir Prabhu H, Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Father Muller Medical College, Mangalore, Email-sudhirhaladi@fathermuller.in 19. External editor – Medical Dr Shyam Prakash, Associate Professor, Laboratory Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, Email-drshyam.labmed@aiims.edu 20. External editor – Medical Dr Srinivas H, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Bowring and Lady Curzon Medical college, Bangalore, Email--srinivas.h81@gov.in 21. EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD – Medical Dr Sharath K Rao, Pro Vice Chancellor – Health Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Email-sk.rao@manipal.eduIntroductory text for Manipal Journal of Medical Sciences.
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Current Issue: Volume 6, Issue 1 (2021)
Editorial
Undergraduate Summer Research under COVID-19
Jeevan K K. Shetty and warren thomas
Short Communications
Fungi: Are they plants or animals?
Himanshu YN, Sufyan Ibrahim, and Revathi P. Shenoy Dr
Microfracture for cartilage defects in today’s Orthopaedics: Pearls and Pitfalls
Himanshu YN and Sufyan Ibrahim
Sensor-based solution for maintaining social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic
Sabah Mohd Zubair Dr, Neelima Chakraborty, and KUMAR SUMIT
Original Article
Assessment of Knowledge and Understanding of Professional Qualities in First-year Medical Students - A Cross - Sectional study
Harpreet Kour, Deepti Kadeangadi, M S. Shivaswamy, and Parwati Patil
Review Articles
Comparative study of Perinatal Mortality, Stillbirths, and Neonatal Mortality from 2010 to 2018 in developing and developed nations with reference to Malaysia
Sujata Khobragade, Yadneshwar Khobragade, and Adinegara Lutfi Abas
Comparison of turnaround times (TAT) in Pathology laboratories from developed and developing countries, and its impact on treatment
Rishikha Jeyapal, SHAJEEDTH SURESH NAIDU, Jeevan K K. Shetty, and Venkatesh Ramaswamy NaIK
Clinical teaching and learning in the COVID-19 era and beyond: The emergent and emerging scenarios
Shashikala K. Bhat, Veena Manja, Vinutha Shankar, and Shashikiran Umakanth
Case reports
Absent oblique fissure and lingula in the left lung – a rare anatomical variation
Amit Massand, Mamatha Tonse, Mangala Pai, B.V. Murlimanju, and Latha Prabhu
Solitary Plasmacytoma of Manubrium Sterni - A Case Report
Shyamasunder N. Bhat and SP Mohanty