ISBMR therefore organized the National Bone Health Quiz to be conducted in three rounds. Seven cities viz.. Delhi Ahmedabad. Jaipur, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Kolkata were chosen for the purpose. The first two rounds were written and held on 24 September 2006 at all these cities at the same time. The participation was by a team of two persons formed by themselves. In the first round, all the registered teams (nearly 300 teams) participated. They answered 45 questions in 45 minutes. From the first round, we selected eight teams at each city with the highest marks who, then participated in the second round on the same day. At the end of the second round, one team was selected from each city (total seven teams with 14 members). They participated in the final round, held at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, on 12 October 2006 afternoon. This round was an oral round with visuals etc. Winning team of final round was given the title of “BONE HEALTH MASTER OF INDIA”. Various prizes and reading material were given to the participants and winners at all stages. All the participants of the final round were given railway fare/boarding and lodging to arrive in the Delhi. The winning team is being sponsored to an International Osteoporosis meet being held in China in 2007.

To conduct the Quiz smoothly ISBMR appointed one coordinator in each of the seven cities who along with the help of other ISBMR members in that city approached the Principals of Medical Colleges in their cities to allow their students to participate, besides allowing pasting of Posters/Banners and other publicity material. ISBMR had written letters to all the Principals in this regards. All the publicity material and question paper were provided centrally by ISBMR. This year, we targeted nearly 30 Medical Colleges having a population of about 20000 students.

The response to the Quiz was really very encouraging and given the finances, this can become a regular feature as there are almost 500 medical colleges in India which need to be targeted to spread awareness about osteoporosis among the medicos.