Challenges to new undergraduate medical curriculum due to COVID-19 pandemic and possible solution in India

As the Medical Council of India (MCI) implemented a new undergraduate curriculum from this academic session onward, the aim was to replace knowledge-centric traditional educational model to a more holistic community-based curriculum based on the domains such as knowledge, skills with emphasis on att...

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Main Authors: Ankit Kaushik, Anamika Jaiswal, A K Singh, Ghazala Rizvi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2022-01-01
Series:Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth
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Online Access:http://www.mjdrdypv.org/article.asp?issn=2589-8302;year=2022;volume=15;issue=3;spage=319;epage=325;aulast=Kaushik
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description As the Medical Council of India (MCI) implemented a new undergraduate curriculum from this academic session onward, the aim was to replace knowledge-centric traditional educational model to a more holistic community-based curriculum based on the domains such as knowledge, skills with emphasis on attitude, communication, and ethics. This implementation requires major reforms in the form of faculty development and resource generation for successful implementation of new course. However, COVID-19 pandemic possesses serious challenges to the implementation of curriculum and its success. This review discusses the possible challenges for the implementation of the new MCI curriculum in face of the coronavirus pandemic and possible strategies to counter it.
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Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth
covid-19
medical education
pandemic
title Challenges to new undergraduate medical curriculum due to COVID-19 pandemic and possible solution in India
title_full Challenges to new undergraduate medical curriculum due to COVID-19 pandemic and possible solution in India
title_fullStr Challenges to new undergraduate medical curriculum due to COVID-19 pandemic and possible solution in India
title_full_unstemmed Challenges to new undergraduate medical curriculum due to COVID-19 pandemic and possible solution in India
title_short Challenges to new undergraduate medical curriculum due to COVID-19 pandemic and possible solution in India
title_sort challenges to new undergraduate medical curriculum due to covid 19 pandemic and possible solution in india
topic covid-19
medical education
pandemic
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