REVISED BASIC COURSE WORKSHOP IN MEDICAL EDUCATION

2. DR A ANITA RAMESH
PROFESSOR
MD,OBGY
MEDICAL EDUCATION UNIT

3. Revised Basic Course Workshop
Curriculum Implementation Support programme

5. NEED OF RBCW?

6. Goal of Medical Education System

7. IndianMedical Graduate
 Graduatepossessingrequisiteknowledge,skills,attitudes,valuesand
responsivenesssothatheor shemay functioneffectivelyas aphysicianof
firstcontactofthecommunitywhilebeinggloballyrelevant

8. SYSTEMS APPROACH & LEARNING
PROCESS IN MED EDUCATION
MEDICAL COLLEGE as a system
Medical college(sysyem) has a number
of subsystems to achieve its goal

10. SYSTEMSAPPROACH

11. Why change the trend now?
 NUMBER OF MEDICAL COLLEGES IN INDIA 500 plus
 CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION IS NOT EVEN
 CHANGING HEALTHCARE SCENARIO
 LAST MEDICAL GRADUATE REGULATION WAS DONE IN 1997
 NEED TO MAKE OUR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES
RELEVANT TO THE CHANGING TIMES

12. EDUCATION SPIRAL
APPROACH

13. STEPS IN EDUCATION SPIRAL
 In the spiral education approach,the first basic facts
of a subject are learned without worrying about details
 In spiral teaching the teacher moves upward but keeps
returning to the fundamentals
 It encourages the students to reinforce the subject in a
stepwise manner & teacher can also improvise on the
T/L methods based on the feedback

14. MEDICAL EDUCATION
 HAS TO BE DEFINED IN TERMS OF ROLES,GOALS
& OBJECTIVES
 CURRICULUM HAS TO BE SHAPED SELECTIVELY
TO ACHIEVE THE GOAL
 PROCESS INVOLVES DYNAMIC INTERACTION
BETWEEN THE EDUCATOR & THE LEARNER

19. EVOLUTION OF MEU
 GRADUATE MEDICAL REGULATIONS,1997 has made it
mandatory to establish MEDICAL EDUCATION UNITS for
faculty development
 MCI has been regularly conducting FACULTY
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES since 2009
 MCI selected 18 NODAL CENTRES for FDP
 FAIMER is also assisting in FDP
 Foundationfor Advancement of InternationalMedical Education & Research
 Training of the faculty has started since JAN 2019

20. ROLE OF MEU
 To arrange sensitisation programmes for all faculty
members regarding the principles of medical education
technology
 To initiate teachers to evolve educational strategies so that
the lacunae existing in the present system could be
minimised
 Help develop teaching & assessment methods
 Promote educational research
 Involve in programme evaluation & quality improvement of
the curriculum

21. Contd…ROLE OF MEU
 To ensure that atleast one MEU member monitor the
use of SKILL LABS
 Curriculum Committee members to meet 6 times per
year
 To collect the reports & co-ordinate with the NC/RC

22. MEU Unit of VBMC?

23. MEU TEAM OF VBMC
 DR MUNEERUDHIN MEU Chairman
 DR SRINIVAS MEU Co-ordinator
 CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
 DR SAILAJA
 DR ANITA RAMESH
 DR SARADA
 DR SUDHASREE
 DR CHANDRASHEKAR

24. WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF LEARNING