UPSC Interview 2024] – Transcript #65: Bidyut Behari Swain Board, Anthropology Optional, MBBS

Date of Interview: 31 march
Board: Bidyut Behari Swain
Optional: Anthropology
Background: MBBS
Keywords – MBBS, medical officer job at PHC, at TB hospital, self help books, social service group, work in tribal areas, anthropology, NGO.

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Chairman

1. You worked in difficult area, what type of challenges you faced.
2.Some discussion about feeling of isolation during work.

Member 1

1. Why civil services ,after doing well in medical field?
2. Don’t you feel that 1  medical seat  will be waste. there should be guilt about it. So how will you overcome this guilt?
3. COVID 19 time- 3 challenge , from your work area
4. COVID 19 time- 3 things to improve , especially in medical field
5. Sometimes Doctors are not behaving in good manner, they don’t give sufficient time to patients… what are reasons ?
6. Which self help books have you read ?
7. Are these  books helping you ?

Member 2

1. Human evolution line-what is controversy and debate about neanderthal
2. Tribal region have resources under forests, threat to their rights, and there is demand of resources for development, so which approach to follow to balance both these things?
3. Trust between tribal communities and government, what are reasons for some good working NGOs holding trust of tribals
4. Some doctors are making unnecessary prescriptions, what are reasons?
5. Reasons on doctors side, is there any pressure

Member 3

1. Some hospitals have their own pharmacy shop, sometimes  they indirectly compelling patients to purchase medicine from these  shops only, so as A DM which step will you take
2. Clinical establishment act, how to make more transparency
3. Jago grahak jago campaign
4. Objectives of campaign
Name of online platform for something related to some awareness …(I don’t know)
5. How will you promote gender equality at family level
6. Some discussion on Self help books
7. One of the most appealing line to you on reading books,

Member 4

1. SDG related to health sector
Our progress in this sdg
2. What are reasons for not able to achieve success in achieving targets?
3. Man’s search for meaning book, what is mean by searching of meaning ?
4. Writer name
5. Logotherapy?
6. Why you founded social service group, what measures taken by group
7. Sir suggested me 2 books to read in self help books category
8. New branch of study/ science emerging combining medical field and humanities..?  (I don’t know).