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Revamped MBBS course to be more 'hands-on'

New Delhi: Come 2019, the Ministry of Health is set to roll out a revamped MBBS syllabus for medical students, which would be more practical rather than theoretical.
According to a senior official in the Health Ministry, the revamped syllabus has been finalised in consultation with Medical Council of India, which would be rolled out from next academic session – 2019-20. Teachers are being trained, and it would be completed by the year-end.
Under the new curriculum, students would get the clinical exposure right from the first year of the 4.5-year MBBS course as greater thrust has been placed on practical knowledge.
"In the new curriculum, there would chapters on know-how in each semester, that would be mandatory for every student to learn and they will have to go through a test after every semester in which their learned skills would be examined," the official said.
The syllabus is being changed after a 17-year gap, and all medical colleges in the country will implement it. "The revised syllabus would be based on competency and students would acquire practical knowledge through clinical exposures from the first year," the official said.
"The MBBS syllabus in practice has become obsolete as new diseases are emerging. The issue of antibiotic resistance has become a raging debate across the globe, and if this cannot be tackled on time, it would pose a great threat to humankind," the official said.
Commenting on the move, Dr Monashis Sahu, a medical graduate from BHU, said, "Greater thrust on practical knowledge is always welcome and will go a long way towards enhancing soft skills of doctors in general."
"Exposure to patient care early in the course and through the entire curriculum may help enhance the soft skills, the communication style and the emotional connect with the patient. It will help improve the problem-solving approaches which will assist towards better individual patient care," Dr Sahu added.
The new curriculum has been prepared to produce quality medical practitioners while being more 'patient-friendly', competitive, ethical and skilled, the official said, adding that new modules like mental health, sexual health issues, radiology, surgery, handling of medico-legal cases and ethics and communication that allow better interaction with the patients are part of the new MBBS curriculum.
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