Not a lecture course. Two days in the andrology laboratory, for gynaecologists and the technicians who run their labs, where you do the work yourself. Count, stain, read, prepare, on real samples, with someone watching over your shoulder.
Andrology is a practical skill. You cannot learn to read a slide from a slide deck, and you cannot judge a preparation you have only seen described. So the course is built the way the work is done, at the bench, on real samples, with your hands on the equipment.
Over 30 years in andrology and cryopreservation, and teaching it since 2001. He has spent those years at the bench, and most of them teaching other people how to work there. Trained at Bourn Hall Clinic in the UK, where IVF began. Recipient of the Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Excellence Award, conferred by the Delhi Gynaecologist Forum.
He is invited, several times a year, to teach andrology at conferences, medical colleges, hospitals and CMEs across India. Among them FOGSI, the AICC RCOG Annual Conference, ISAR Delhi and Haryana chapters, the Indian Fertility Society, AOGD, SOCACON and the Delhi Gynaecologist Forum, where he is course faculty and andrology co-coordinator on the Diploma in Male and Female Infertility.
Andrology is barely taught. You cannot order a test you were never shown, and you cannot counsel on a report you have never watched being made.
Invited by societies, medical colleges, hospital departments and annual conferences. The record below runs from 2016 to now.
The teaching, and the thank-yous that followed.
Holding the tube, everyone watching the hands
Semen analysis and interpretation, projected
Felicitated after a hands-on session
Gloved, round the microscope at a hospital bench
At the bench with the group
Felicitated by the organising committee
A dozen clinicians pressed round the bench
Round the bench, everyone looking
Received at a hospital session
Morphology projected, pointing out the defect
Working through a preparation
Felicitated at a conference workshop
Counting chamber on screen, mid-explanation
Demonstrating at the bench
Certificate handover after training
Teaching a full table, microscope between them
A full room at the microscope
Felicitated at a CME
A session in progress
Live demonstration for the room
After a session, with the group
At a medical college, chamber projected
The cohort, after the session
Felicitated at the UCMS and GTB workshop
Demonstrating to residents, UCMS and GTB Hospital
Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Excellence AwardHolding the tube, everyone watching the handsSemen analysis and interpretation, projectedFelicitated after a hands-on sessionGloved, round the microscope at a hospital benchAt the bench with the groupFelicitated by the organising committeeA dozen clinicians pressed round the benchRound the bench, everyone lookingReceived at a hospital sessionMorphology projected, pointing out the defectWorking through a preparationFelicitated at a conference workshopCounting chamber on screen, mid-explanationDemonstrating at the benchCertificate handover after trainingTeaching a full table, microscope between themA full room at the microscopeFelicitated at a CMEA session in progressLive demonstration for the roomAfter a session, with the groupAt a medical college, chamber projectedThe cohort, after the sessionFelicitated at the UCMS and GTB workshopDemonstrating to residents, UCMS and GTB HospitalDr APJ Abdul Kalam Excellence Award
A live station on in-depth semen analysis and sperm preparation, at the Rajasthan International Centre.
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For contribution to andrology and cryopreservation.
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Hosted by AICC RCOG North Zone at Le Meridien. Semen analysis technique and sperm morphology, worked through at conference scale.
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Andrology and cryopreservation, presented to a clinical audience.
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, under the aegis of the AOGD Infertility and Reproductive Endocrinology Subcommittee.
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Hands-on andrology for gynaecologists travelling in from across the country.
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Semen analysis technique, morphology and sperm preparation, taught to a handful of doctors at a time.
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Clinicians who order semen reports, spending a day watching one being made.
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Hospitals, medical colleges and societies, for the bench work that cannot be taught from slides.
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Vitality, strict morphology and DNA fragmentation. The parameters a normal-looking report leaves out.
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And hundreds more.
Teaching andrology since 2001.
Two days. Day one is the analysis, performed by hand. Day two is the preparation, with the techniques run side by side so the choice becomes reasoned rather than habitual.
Six seats.
Batches filling fast.
Because everyone works at a scope themselves, a batch cannot be large. September is full. October is filling. Six people to a batch, in Delhi. Out-of-town participants can be helped with a place to stay nearby, just say so when you write in.