A little over 50,000 graduands received their degrees at the 38th Convocation of the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University held in the city on Friday.
Among them were 12,016 medical students, 2,569 dental students, 3,269 students of Ayush, and 32,305 students of nursing, pharmacy, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and allied health sciences.
As many as 353 gold and silver medals, endowment certificates, and university medals were presented to 237 candidates. Notably, S. Swetha, an MBBS graduand from Kilpauk Medical College, won nine medals.
A total of 66 candidates were conferred with Ph.D. degree.
P. Grizelda Evangeline, a cochlear implantee, received a certificate from the Governor for securing the highest marks in Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT), an advanced OT in Paediatrics. She underwent the surgery at the Madras ENT Research Foundation in 2007 when she was two years old.
