28/08/2020
SRK
The Second Workshop of the Curriculum Implementation Support Programme (CISP - 2) for the Medical Council of India proposed curricular reforms in MBBS curriculum for Undergraduate Education was conducted by the Regional Center of the MCI, Gandhi Medical College, Secunderabad from 25th to 26th August 2020.
The faculty from all the three medical colleges, Shadan Institute of Medical Sciences, Dr. VRK Women's Medical College and Ayaan Institute of Medical Sciences participated in the programme at the institute whereas the faculty of all the other medical colleges attended online because of the restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
These reforms focus on enhancing integration, clinical competency, flexibility and improvement in quality of training. The Faculty Development Program to support curricular innovations has its focus on capacity development across the country and to develop guidelines and supportive documents for improving medical education. The purpose of the CISP-2 is to prepare and support faculty in Medical Colleges in planning, implementing and evaluating the new curriculum through a multi-tiered approach. The focus of the second year of the CISP will be on the identified curricular strategies being the early clinical exposure, integrated teaching and skills training.
Newer topics in CBME curriculum, such as Electives and Early clinical exposure were dealt with in details by the faculty and generated tremendous response from the participants regarding its planning and implementation.
Dr. N.V.N Reddy - Coordinator Regional Center of MCI, Gandhi Medical College inaugurated the session and presided over the introductions with ice breaking sessions. The concept of integration and alignment of the subjects along with designing the time-table was addressed by Dr.P.V.Chalam. Other speakers at the workshop were Dr. Jyoti Laxmi - Professor Microbiology, Gandhi Medical College and Dr. M. Anthony David Swaroop Kumar - Professor of Physiology, Gandhi Medical College. Concerns were also raised regarding the time frame for implementation, need for more faculty and need for support staff for effective implementations and documentation due to the ongoing Coronavirus Pandemic.
Dr. Sarib Rasool Khan - Managing Director of Shadan Institute of Medical Sciences, Dr. VRK Women's Medical College, Nimra Institute of Medical Sciences and Ayaan Institute of Medical Sciences while speaking on the occasion said that the consolidation of objectives ensuring implementation of curriculum with appropriate teaching-learning strategies, tools, techniques and technology and commensurate mode of assessment are the parts of the core model for providing quality based undergraduate medical education. He also said that It gave him much confidence and satisfaction that the ‘competency based curriculum’ that has been proposed by the Medical Council of India would definitely serve a larger cause in the domain of quality medical education in his medical colleges.