BHUBANESWAR: Two twin city girls, who completed their MBBS in AIIMS Bhubaneswar, received 22 gold medals in the annual convocation of the institute held on Saturday. Cuttack's Rosalin Parida, 2014 MBBS batch, received 13 gold medals, while Bhubaneswar's Manisha Mohanty, 2013 MBBS batch, got nine gold medals in the second and third annual convocation of the institute.

Rosalin, daughter of a forest department employee, belongs to Cuttack city. She is now pursing PG (medicine) in AIIMS Delhi, topped in nine out of 12 subjects in her undergraduate medical course. She received gold medals for the subjects like physiology, biochemistry, pathology, pharmacology, forensic medicine and toxicology, general medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, community and family medicine and paediatrics.

Besides these, she received gold medal for being the best graduate (MBBS) of the year 2014. She also won Nabakishore Mahapatra Gold Medal for biochemistry, Kamal Udaya Gold Medal for pharmacology and gold medal in memory of professor JM Senapati in physiology. "I feel proud that I became the best graduate of 2014 batch of the institute. I want to work in the field of medicine," she added.

After completion of the MBBS course last year, she applied for PG entrance test and got into AIIMS Delhi this year.

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