Basic Concerns And Difficulties Faced in Attending Conferences By Medical and Dental Post Graduates. A Questionnaire Survey

Introduction: Conferences merely play an important role in learning and spreading education, sharpening the skills, to interact with peers, trying the new modifications, evolving novel and relevant ideas, developing unity in contentious areas all leading to improvement in health-care delivery and patient outcomes. Material and Methodology: The data was collected from 500 postgraduates with a questionnaire sent over through what's app application and electronic mail sourced from the post graduates repository in the month of September, 2020. The purpose of the study was informed and explained to the participants. If there was no response the participants were again reminded after a week which increased the response by 10%. The response rate of questionnaire was 90% (450 responses out of 500 participants). Results: The study subjects included were 280(62.2%) females and 170(37.8%) males. The majority of the students were Dental postgraduates 326(72.4%) and the remaining subjects were Medical postgraduates 124(27.6%). The *p value ≥0.05 is considered to be significant (Chi- square test of significance) and there is a significant association between the medical and dental post graduates difficulties, while there is no significant difference regarding the prime concern. Conclusions: Theconcerns and difficulties can help in planning and conducting conferences in a better way which will enable the post graduates and professionals of various fields. Each conference should have a specific goal, mission, and vision which is different from others so that a clear-cut objective is achieved at the end.