An insight into competency-based undergraduate curriculum and its application in Ophthalmology

The revised undergraduate (UG) medical curriculum envisages the Indian Medical Graduate (IMG) to assist the nation in achieving its goal of “health for all.” It adopts learner-centered and outcome-oriented approach to train an IMG who can effectively cater to the needs of the society. It emphasizes...

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Published inJournal of Clinical Ophthalmology and Research Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 91 - 97
Main Authors Nema, Nitin, Srivastava, Romi, Bose, Sukhwant
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd 01.05.2022
Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
Subjects
College graduates
College students
competency
Competency based education
competency-based medical education
conventional curriculum
Curricula
Education
Medical colleges
Ophthalmology
skills
teaching-learning methods
India
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Summary:The revised undergraduate (UG) medical curriculum envisages the Indian Medical Graduate (IMG) to assist the nation in achieving its goal of “health for all.” It adopts learner-centered and outcome-oriented approach to train an IMG who can effectively cater to the needs of the society. It emphasizes on the development of competencies and prepares the learner to work in real life situations. Hence, there is the shift in focus from “must know” to “must do.” Apart from being a competent clinician, the graduate has to function in the roles of effective communicator, leader, life-long learner, and professional. For acquisition of the competencies, some key components have been added in competency-based medical education. Each subject expert has to make sure to teach and assess the subject-wise skills as well as these competencies. This enables the UG students to acquire knowledge, skills, ethics, values, and attitude to work as competent and skillful health-care professionals.
ISSN:2320-3897
DOI:10.4103/jcor.jcor_7_22