The Programme was inaugurated by the Chief Guest of the programme, Dr. Joseph Thomas M, Professor, Department of Urology, Kasturba Hospital and Head Center of Bioethics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education. In his inaugural speech, he focused on three main teaching learning aspects, namely unlearning the learned things for better prospectus of the students, thinking beyond the role of a teacher considering all domains of learning of the students and accepting the new roles by a teacher at all times.  

The first session of the day was on Meta-analysis by Mr. Ravishanker, Biostatistician from Department of Virology Manipal Academy of Higher Education, who took an extensive hands on experience session on working with Review Manager 5.2 version software for analysis.  

Dr. Judith A Noronha Professor, OBG nursing and Associate Dean of MCON Manipal took a session on Data Extraction.