19TH IAP PEDIATRIC QUIZ FOR UNDERGRADUATES (2006)

GUIDELINES FOR ZONAL QUIZ COORDINATOR

Guidelines for conducting IAP Pediatric Quiz for Undergraduates

The Zonal Round of the quiz is to be organized before end of October 2006 to select the best team to represent the Zone at the Final Round.  The respective Zonal Coordinator is requested to make arrangements for the Zonal Round. 

The Zonal Round will be oral, on-the-spot question-answer competition including visual round.  Each team will consist of two members who will jointly answer questions.

Ensure Maximum Participation

The Zonal Coordinator is requested to motivate as many students and members as possible to take part in the Zonal 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 Zonal Round.  Since the quiz is an IAP activity, support, finances and help can be sought from local IAP branches.

 Guiding Students

The Zonal 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 Zonal 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 senior members.  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 Master’s decision is final in case of any dispute.

Handing over of certificates

Certificates will be provided by the 18th 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,
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


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9TH IAP PEDIATRIC QUIZ FOR UNDERGRADUATES (2005)

Guidelines for the Quiz Master

 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 Zonal 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.

Scoring Pattern : For Zonal and Final rounds only Pattern B is to be followed as shown below.

Pattern B

Ten seconds are provided to answer each direct question if the team answers correctly, they get 10 marks. 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.

8.      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.

9.      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

REPORT SHEET FOR ZONAL ROUND

Name of the Zonal Coordinator            :……………………………………..

 Address : …………………………………………………………………….

 ……………………………………………………………………………….

Quiz conducted on : …………………………………………………………

Quiz Coordinator : ………………………………………………………….

Quiz Master : ……………………………………………………………….

Audience : No. from Department : ………………………………………… 

                   No. from Outside : …………………………………………….

………………………………………………………………………………

Team    Names of Team Members                      College             Marks

……………………………………………………………………………

A

………………………………………………………………………………

B

………………………………………………………………………………

C

………………………………………………………………………………

D

………………………………………………………………………………

E

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Pattern of scoring :             B                                  Tie breaker used:    Y / N

Suggestions :

                                                             ………………………………………..

                                                            Signature of the ZONALCOORDINATOR

                                                            Name : ……………………………

(1) Kindly mail one copy of the “Report Sheet” 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.