Course on Osteoporosis: Essentials of Densitometry, Diagnosis and Management

IOF Certified Bone Densitometery Course held at Taj Coromandel Chennai on 29.30 Sep.2011

ISBMR conducted its first international course “Osteoporosis Essentials of Densitometry Diagnosis and Management” at Hotel Radisson Blu Dwarka, New Delhi on 19-20 April 2014. The course was very well received.

The feedback from participants and some photographs are appended below:-

About the Programme

“Was the programme upto your expectation”			Yes	100%	No	0%
Quality of faculty	Excellent	72%	Satisfactory	28%	Unsatisfactory	0%
Content of programme	Too much	19%	Satisfactory	80%	Too Little	0%
The length of sessions	Too much	29%	Sufficient	69%	Too Little	1%
Programme schedule	Too Tough	1%	Appropriate	96%	Too easy	1%

Faculty Evaluation

Appropropriateness of teaching subject	Excellent	60%	Good	33%	Fair	0%	Poor	0%
Knowledge of subject matter	Too much	79%	Good	21%	Fair	0%	Poor	0%
Professional applicability	Too much	63%	Good	33%	Fair	0%	Poor	0%

Difficulty / Surprises / Suggestions in programme

Name	Comments
Dr Pukharaj Gaur	Our Esteemed faculty Dr Nikhil Tondon is not present due to his illness
Dr Y R Sareen	Delayed start of Programme
Dr Naresh Goyal	DXA session are too much. Programme length should be cut down
Dr Navjot S	Too much repetition
Dr Ravipal Singh	Not highlighting of X ray in routine management
Dr S B Solanki	should be compressed to 60% to make it more clinically oriented ( deleting details of DXA machines etc)
Dr Manoj Khemani	Each topic was long and making concentration difficult
Dr Sunil Tuli	Yes regarding the dosage of Pharmacological agents and then duration required
Dr Sanjay Dhawan	Surprise is one since that few companies in their fight of marketing does not categorically clears some points which are imp for treatment
Dr Saumya sen	Schedule to short only one and half day. No time to relax. Can reduce the programme to One day and cut down DXA theory
Dr Sudesh saha	Limit of use of Bisphosphonate and PTH
Dr Kaushik	None but physicians say internal medicines , chest medicine, rheumatologist, dermatologist who use steroid day in and out must be sensitized
Dr Subrata Kumar Das	It would have been better if some session is added for osteoporotic fracture management
Dr Rajesh Mehta	Try to make it little short by substituting the non clinical part and focus mainly on clinical content
Dr Y Seetaa Ram prasa	Too much DXA & Data , need more recommendation as we are mainly clinician

Learning from Programme

Name	Comments
Dr Amit Ahluwalia	Better understanding of DXA scans
Dr Dilp Kumar Sinha	Rationality of use of medicines in different stage of OP
Dr Garurav nath Bhalla	It brought clarity to entire subject of Osteoporosis
Dr Pukharaj Gaur	How to prevent and treat OP in all age groups and different conditions
Dr I A Khan	Appropriate use of Vit D
Dr Dipankar Seth	Pharmacological management of Osteoporosis Basics of OP , use of DXA & treatment of OP
Dr Kapil Kulshetra	DXA is gold standard for diagnosis of OP, learned Bisphosphonates and Teriparatide use and Calcitonin limited role
Dr Subrata Haldar	Still so many thing to learn about osteoporosis
Dr Subhash Maurya	So many Imp topics have been covered which were informative . Now we can manage Osteoporosis in better way
Dr Navjot S	Bone density concepts cleared
Dr A K Jain	Diagnosis and treatment of OP
Dr Ashok Arora	Treatment of OP and how to diagnose it
Dr T S arora	Excellent programme. Good experience
Dr Prakash Madhav	Systematic management of Osteoporosis
Dr Samyajit Singh	Relevance and fallacies of BMD, Advantage of OP treatment in fracture prevention and mortality
Dr Harmesh Kapoor	Details of DXA, FRAX , details of Bisphosphonate and PTH
Dr S B Solanki	Scale of OP in day to day practice , Importance of addressing it timely , secondary fracture prevention strategies
Dr Manoj Khemani	Identifying risks of osteoporotic fractures , Treatment Principles
Dr Sanjay Dhawan	It was any eye opener and has cleared many doubts
Dr Soumya Sen	Proper Management of Osteoporosis , frequency , side effects management and clear concept about new drugs
Dr Kaushik C	Glucocorticoid & other types of OP prevention and treatment. My COPD patients can be better managed now. But how many patients and colleagues follow is a root question
Dr Subrata Kumar Das	So many relevant information
Dr Rajesh Mehta	Proper Management of Osteoporosis patients right from diagnosis to treatment

Other Comments

Name	Comments
Dr D K Gupta	It was good meeting . We really enjoyed you have done excellent job
Dr I A Khan	I have been using Anti- OP drugs for last 10 Years and have given many lectures on OP. At the end of this programme, I think I am more educated.
Dr J Sachdeva	Pl provide handouts containing guidelines / summary of course
Dr Santosh jena	Excellent programme
Dr Subrata Halder	Great Job keep it up
Dr Subhash Maurya	In my opinion OP has become epidemic so more concentration is needed for treatment . Treatment cost should be brought down so that many can get benefits
Dr A K Jain	Nice arrangement. Care taken by ABBOTT is excellent
Dr Manoij Garg	Current knowledge of Treatment strategy updated
Dr Ashok Arora	Should be less data, more discussion
Dr S B Solanki	An entire programme would add value along with a session for critical case discussions. Faculty as well as delegate may help in interactions and developing strategies in grey area
Dr Sanjay Dhawan	This initiative is excellent. More such programs clears many doubts which are imp and some information really reverses your concepts which you had in your mind before this course . IT WAS REALLY VERY INFORMATIVE
Dr Amit Singh	DXA concept improved. Some intricacies in Bisphosphonate and PTH use
Dr Ritesh Kumar	This is good programme . Should be taught at local level also for awareness of patient and doctors both
Dr Tirthankar Bhattacharya	Do more frequently ( such program)
Dr Sudesh Saha	Enjoyed Case discussions. Cases to be more elaborate
Dr Kaushik C	Longer question and answer , meet the faculty session, mutidisiplinary specialities must also be exposed. I as chest phy self financed entire program. COPD has Osteoporosis as co morbidityKnowingly and unknowingly asthma and COP is on rise, Rapid urbanisation, increased smoking amongst youngsters , corporate culture, sleep disturbances, associated COPD, OSA, DM, childhood asthma , lung diseases , autoimmune diseases are on rise so other speciality like chest, rheumatology must also be exposed to such courses
Dr Paresh kumar Pattanik	Need Periodic interactive conference