discipline all around the globe. In USA, where Universities g ive tremendous �exibility in choosing your courses and the combination of subjects, you still need to take a minimum number of classes. Now we may discuss how best we make the environment that students are attracted towards attending these classes. For example instead of morning 8 AM class, the same lecture can be made available on web / Intranet and you login and listen to that lecture as per your convenience at 6 PM, 1 AM or 6 AM and also take CME credits related to the same lecture. Based upon the performance, you are given grades or marks. �ere should be some mechanism to monitor the same digitally. Poor attendance in didactic lectures is one issue, another issue is not attending your clinical posting or you attend sessions only looking at your future interest, that if you thought that you would take up c a r d i o l o g y t h r o u g h i n t e r n a l medicine route, you do not come to Operation theatre, or any other specialty. �at is a short sightedness. Even if you are not going for a surgical specialty, you have to know for general information sake as a professional. Suggestions have to come from students themselves to improve the attendance in classes and clinics and other areas of h o s p i t a l. I t h i n k i n t e r a c t i v e l e c t u r e / t e a c h i n g sessions would b e m o r e attractive for s t u d e n t s instead of a monologue by a t e a c h e r reading from p o w e r p o i n t slides. PPT has to be used for cue rather than teachers reading everything from the slide. But if the student fails to take the number of classes he / she is supposed to, then rules should apply. At AIIMS, every week on Tuesday there is Combined Clinical Round and Combined Grand Round, Undergraduate students must participate in these academic activities. �ere are a large number of conferences and workshops by various departments, students must volunteer to participate in these a c t i v i t i e s. � e r e a r e h u g e opportunities for students to do small research projects. H H: With an ever increasing patient load and with the student numbers increasing over the years from 50 to 72 and now to 100 + 7 from this year, how well do you think can a �ne balance be struck between patient care and teaching? Does AIIMS have the infrastructure right from hostels to labs and wards to handle this increasing load? D r. M i s r a: L o o k i n g a t t h e infrastructure of AIIMS, we can e a s i l y a c c o m m o d a t e 1 0 0 undergraduate students. I have tried to answer part of the question in a n o t h e r q u e s t i o n r e l a t e d t o expansion of hostel facilities for students and Residents vide supra in question no. 2. H H: Sir, last year, under your ruling, PULSE was almost going to be cancelled. We demonstrated multiple protests against this and ultimately a middleground was found. What is your take on protests by students? Also, have you ever participated in similar p r o t e s t s d u r i n g y o u r studentship? W hat is your opinion, in general, about PULSE? Dr. Misra: �ree years ago, the Dean of MAMC came to meet me with the re q u e s t t h a t w e d o n o t g i v e permission to hold“ PULSE”. I disagreed with him then but regretted later on. It was following large volumes of complaints by undergraduate students themselves about the misuse of funds, the way funds were collected and used by few; lack of honesty and transparency in t h e w h o l e p r e p a r a t i o n a n d organization of the event; loud music being played through the night without realising and appreciating that there are patients in hospital and residents on the campus. Since Director’ s bungalow is close to hostels, biggest brunt of noise pollution was borne by me and my family. In 2015, permission was given on serious assurance by the SU that there shall be no loud music after 10 PM as per the orders of Supreme Court but this assurance w a s � o u t e d a n d l o u d m u s i c continued unabated. �en there were i n s t a n ces o f � g h t s a f t e r t h e consumption of alcohol. One �ght was so serious in 2015 that one of the participant student from another medical college nearly died. �e student sustained severe brain injuries and required ICU care for several weeks. Another AIIMS student sustained injury to his hand in one of the PULSE. All limits were crossed in 2016, when we received a