MR. & MS. MEDICO SAPIENS, KPR Institute Engineering and Technology, Autonomous Engineering Institution, Coimbatore, India

The Department of Biomedical Engineering organized a technical quiz event “Mr. & Ms. Medico sapiens”  on the theme “Current emerging trends in Biomedical Applications” on 17th February, 2023 from 9 am to 11 am at the S & H Block, First floor, F 104 during the FIESTAA ’23.
Around 11 teams participated in this event from the colleges across Tamil Nadu. Maximum of two members per team were allowed. Three rounds were conducted for this event. Round 1 had 25 MCQ type questions. The theme was related to basic science. One mark was given for the correct answer. No negative marks were awarded. Round 2 was a picture based quiz and the theme was current trends in biomedical engineering. Seven questions were with pictures and questions and eight questions were without any questions. Two marks were awarded for each question. Top 5 teams were selected at the end of this round. Round 3 was disease prediction based on pictures. Marks were allotted based on how fast they were able to answer from the given images. If they answer at the first attempt, 10 marks were awarded. If not the marks were deducted according to the time taken to find the correct answer. In the final round, two teams were selected as the winners.
The runner of this event was Mr. G. N. Abhishek from SRM University, Chennai and the winners were Mr. D. Nithin Kumar and Mr. R. Adhithya Krishna of VSB Engineering College, Karur. The winners were awarded with a certificate and cash prize by Dr. D. Ganeshkumar, Head of the Biomedical Department. Finally the event ended with the feedback session.