19TH IAP PEDIATRIC QUIZ FOR UNDERGRADUATES
(2006)
Guidelines for conducting IAP Pediatric Quiz for Undergraduates
The Divisional Round of the quiz is to be organized before end August 2006 to select the best team to represent the division at the Zonal Round. The respective Divisional Coordinator is requested to make arrangements for the Divisional Round. The divisional co-ordinator may select a team to draft questions for the quiz. Guidelines for drafting questions are enclosed.
The Divisional Round will be oral, on-the-spot question-answer competition. Each team will consist of two members who will jointly answer questions.
Ensure Maximum Participation
The Divisional Coordinator is requested to motivate as many students and members as possible to take part in the Divisional Round. Invitations may kindly be sent to the local practitioners, pediatricians and staff members of related disciplines like Medicine, PSM, Gyn-Obst etc. to be present at the Divisional Round. Since the quiz is an IAP activity, support, finances and help can be sought from local IAP branches.
Guiding Students
The Divisional Coordinator may kindly guide the students to prepare for the quiz. They be asked to cover important topics like growth and development, immunization, nutrition, infectious diseases and common pediatric problems. Standard textbooks of pediatrics should form the basis of reading material for students.
Personnel
A Quiz Master to conduct the quiz competition, a time keeper to mark time, a scorer to maintain scores and several volunteers will be needed to conduct the quiz. Help of active members of the IAP can also be enlisted especially for Divisional Round.
Equipment
It is advisable to provide microphones to each of the four participating teams as well as to the Quiz Master. Scorer will need a score board to display the score. Time keeper will require a stopwatch and a bell. The tables of the competitors should be arranged so that they face the audience but are seated at some distance.
Guidelines for the Quiz Master
Detailed guidelines for the Quiz Master are enclosed separately. You may identify a Quiz Master from amongst members of senior residents. The Quiz Master should read these guidelines clearly and explain the same to all the participants, before starting the quiz. He should also introduce the members of the team to the audience. The Quiz Masters decision is final in case of any dispute.
Handing over of certificates
Certificates will be provided by the 19th IAP Pediatric Quiz Committee to be given to the winning team and other teams participating in the quiz. The certificates are sponsored by our esteemed journal IJPP and we express our deep sense of gratitude to the Journal Committee for their kind gesture.
Communication Address:
Dr. Bharat R. Agarwal,
National Coordinator,
18th IAP Pediatric Quiz for
Undergraduates
Indian Academy of Pediatrics
Kailas Darshan, Kennedy Bridge
(Nana Chowk),
MUMBAI-400007.
Telephones ( R )
022-26431901/26552277 ( C ) 022-26426846/31902/30142
IAP Office: 23887906 / 23887922 /
23889565
Fax 022-23851713
Email: centraloffice@iapindia.org
bharatagarwal@iapindia.org
MOBILE #09820051571
19TH
IAP PEDIATRIC QUIZ FOR UNDERGRADUATES (2006)
Guidelines for drafting questions for the Divisional Round
I) Quiz will consist of 6 rounds. Please select topics for the individual rounds as follows.
Round 1: Basic Sciences
Physiology, Anatomy including Embryology, Biochemistry, Pathology, Immunology, Microbriology, Pharmacology.
Round 2: General Pediatrics
Nutrition, Growth & Development, Fluid and Electrolytes, Behavioral Sciences.
Round 3: Infectious diseases, Vaccines, Immunization and Neonatology
Rounds 4 and 5: Systems
Neurology, Pulmonology, Cardiology, Hepatology, Hematology, Nephrology, Gastrointestinal Systems.
Round 6: Subspeciality and Miscellaneous
Endocrinology, Inborn Errors of Metabolism, Preventive and Social Medicine, Ophthalmology, Ottorinolaryngology, Dermatology, Dentistry.
Tie Breaker Round (if needed):
Tie breaker round will have 4 questions.
II) You may use your discretion regarding using questions pertaining to one topic listed or a mixture of topics e.g. Round 3 may have only questions pertaining to Infectious Diseases or Neonatology a mixture of questions on Neonatology and Infectious Diseases.
III) It is necessary to remember that the question may be passed on to other teams. Thus questions should not be such that the answer can be obviously guessed by subsequent teams e.g. if the answer is not autosomol recessive or dominant, the third team would easily quest it as to be X linked.
IV) Please ensure that questions in a round are equally balanced i.e. some questions should not be more difficult than the rest. This would minimize the luck factor.
V) Please Avoid:
A) Questions with Yes/No type of answers.
B)Questions with controversial answers.
C)Questions where the answer may be a range of figures e.g. at what age does the child start turning over?
D)Questions which have too many answers e.g. what are the causes of cirrhosis in children?
E) Questions with long answers e.g. Define Rickets.
F) Questions asking normal values of blood chemistry etc (as the units may be different).
VI) As a maximum of 6 teams will be participating, a total of 36 questions will have to be drafted. However, it would be prudent to draft 2 additional questions per round (i.e. 8 questions per round, total 48 for the entire quiz plus tie breaker). These questions may have to be used in case any original question becomes invalid (by audience interference or otherwise).
VII) If a question has more than one cause as answer, please specify whether any one cause or all the causes expected. If all causes are expected, and the team gives only one answer, they should not be given credit e.g. name organisms causing nephrotic syndrome below one year of age. The team will get credit only if both treponema pallidum and cytomegalovirus are mentioned. This is not true if the question is framed as follows: Name one organism causing nephrotic syndrome below one year of age.
VIII) Questions and answers pertaining to one round should be kept in an envelope and 7 such sealed envelopes (Round 1 to 6, tie breaker questions) be handed over to the Quiz Master 15 minutes prior to the commencement of the quiz.
19TH
IAP PEDIATRIC QUIZ FOR UNDERGRADUATES (2005)
Dear Colleague,
Congratulations on being appointed the Quiz
Master. Before you start the quiz,
please read these guidelines carefully:
1.
Label
the teams as A, B, C and D etc by drawing lots and making them sit
appropriately so that they face the audience.
2.
Have
a scorer and a timekeeper with a stop watch ready.
3.
Request
the audience to keep silent and not to prompt answers or interfere otherwise.
4.
The
quiz shall be conducted in 6 rounds.
5.
The
Divisional Coordinator will hand-over the envelope bearing round numbers 1 to 6
and one for the tie breaker round.
Kindly check that all the envelopes are there before starting the quiz. Do not open the small envelopes before you
have read all the guidelines.
6.
The
first 4 questions in each round are for the 6 teams (A, B, C, D, E, F)
respectively. Additional 2 questions
are extra questions given just in case the original question becomes invalid
(by audience interference or otherwise).
7.
Wherever
a range has been given, you may accept any figure in that range as a correct
answer. If there are more than one
cause then all causes have been listed and the student is to be given credit if
he answers any one (or more) of the mentioned causes. However, the Quiz Master must accept the synonyms as correct
answers e.g. the correct answer to a particular question is Downs Syndrome and
the team answers Trisomy 21. You should
give the team full credit even if Trisomy 21 is not mentioned as an
answer. In case a question consists of
two parts both the answers have to be given to obtain full points. Even if one part of the answer is given correctly
the answering team is not awarded any points and the question gets passed to
the next team.
8.
Scoring
Pattern
You may adopt one of the scoring patterns given
below, preferably after discussing with the contestants and Divisional
Coordinator. Having decided the scoring pattern, please read the rules of the
relevant pattern to the audience.
Pattern A
Ten seconds are provided to answer each direct
question and 5 seconds to answer each indirect question (i.e. a passed
question) Stipulated time starts at the
end of the Quiz Masters question and ends at 10 seconds, which will be
signaled by the time keeper by sounding the bell.
Scorer will maintain the tally of marks. 10 marks are assigned for correct answer for
a direct question and 5 bonus points for a correct answer to an indirect
question (i.e. a passed question).
If the second team also cannot answer then the
question may be passed to the 3rd team or 4th team and subsequent teams also
must start their answer within 5 seconds.
The team which gives the correct answer shall be awarded 5 points.
The Quiz Master will begin the quiz by asking first
question to team A and then to team B, C and D in the first three rounds and
shall reverse the order of the questions in the last three rounds
Pattern B
Ten seconds are provided to answer each direct
question as in pattern A and if the team answers correctly, they get 10
marks like in pattern A. During the same 10 seconds (plus the time
taken by the team answering direct question) the other three teams should write
the expected correct answer on a slip.
If the team answering the direct question fails to give the correct
answer, then the slips collected from all the other three teams will be
scrutinized by the Quiz Master and one or more teams with the correct answer
shall be given 5 marks. Slips will be
considered only if the direct question has not been answered by the concerned
team e.g. the direct question has been put to team A. If team A has answered it correctly, 10 marks will be given to
team A and the next direct question is put to team B. If team B does not answer the question in the stipulated time,
the Quiz Master collects the written answers from team A, C and D. One or more teams with correct answers will
get 5 marks (i.e. they all will get 5 marks if they have written the correct
answer). If this pattern of scoring is
to be adopted please ensure that:
(i)
There
should be a person standing behind every team to collect the written answers
from them. He should promptly hand them
over to the Quiz Master.
(ii)
The
participants are provided with slips to write their answers on.
9.
Tie
break round (one or more if required) is to be conducted if more than one team
is sharing the highest score at the end of 6 rounds. The questions used for this will be unused questions marked E and
F in each round and the unmarked questions in the tie break envelope. You may group them for equal level of
difficulty before starting the tie break round.
10.
Please
give your comments about the quiz in the feedback proforma enclosed. This will help the IAP in improving the quiz
next year.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Bharat R. Agarwal
National Coordinator
19th IAP PEDIATRIC QUIZ FOR
UNDERGRADUATES
Communication
Address:
Dr. Bharat R. Agarwal,
National Coordinator,
19th IAP Pediatric Quiz for Undergraduates
Indian Academy of Pediatrics
Kailas Darshan, Kennedy Bridge (Nana Chowk),
MUMBAI-400007.
Telephones ( R ) 022-26431901/26552277 ( C ) 022-26426846/31902/30142
IAP Office: 23887906 / 23887922 / 23889565
Fax 022-23851713
Email: centraloffice@iapindia.org
bharatagarwal@iapindia.org
MOBILE
#09820051571
19TH
IAP PEDIATRIC QUIZ FOR UNDERGRADUATES
Name of the Divisional Coordinator :
..
Team Names
of Team Members College Marks
Signature
of the DIV.COORDINATOR
Name
:
(1) Kindly mail one copy of the Report Sheet to
your Zonal Coordinator and one to Dr. Bharat R. Agarwal, National Coordinator,
19th IAP Pediatric Quiz for Undergraduates, Indian Academy of
Pediatrics, Kailas Darshan, Kennedy Bridge (Nana Chowk), Mumbai-400007.
(2) Please also send a copy
of the questions used by you so that they could be incorporated in the Quiz
Questions Book to be published at the end of the final round of this quiz.