Medical Education · pages 128–130
An Introspection into the Newly introduced Undergraduate Medical Curriculum: Competency based Medical Education
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Dipti Mohapatra, Prakash Kumar Sahoo, Arati Mohanty. An Introspection into the Newly introduced Undergraduate Medical Curriculum: Competency based Medical Education. J Int Med Sci Acad. 2023;36(1):128–130.
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After about a decade the medical council of India proposed a major change in the undergraduate medical curriculum. Competency based medical education was introduced into the undergraduate medical curriculum in the year 2019 with an intent to match the international standard of education and to fufil the health requirements of the society. Several changes were made in the existing curriculum of the undergraduate medical curriculum. The major changes made were adding of new entities like, foundation course, AETCOM, self dire cted learning (SDL), reflectives, problem based learning, integrated teaching and reflections.
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CBME, implementation, challenges undergraduate curriculum 1Professor, Department of Physiology, IMS and SUM Hospital, Siksha O Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha