Competency-based medical education for undergraduates in India: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, challenges analysis and the way forward

Saurabh RamBihariLal Shrivastava; Prateek Saurabh Shrivastava

doi:10.4103/MJ.MJ_1_20

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Year : 2020 \| Volume : 19 \| Issue : 1 \| Page : 37-39

Competency-based medical education for undergraduates in India: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, challenges analysis and the way forward Saurabh RamBihariLal Shrivastava¹, Prateek Saurabh Shrivastava² ¹ Member of the Medical Education Unit and Institute Research Council, Department of Community Medicine, Shri Sathya Sai Medical College and Research Institute, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth – Deemed to be University, Ammapettai, Nellikuppam, Chengalpet District, Tamil Nadu, India ² Department of Community Medicine, Shri Sathya Sai Medical College and Research Institute, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth – Deemed to be University, Ammapettai, Nellikuppam, Chengalpet District, Tamil Nadu, India Correspondence Address: Dr. Saurabh RamBihariLal Shrivastava Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Shri Sathya Sai Medical College and Research Institute, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth (SBV) – Deemed to be University, Tiruporur - Guduvancherry Main Road, Ammapettai, Nellikuppam, Chengalpet District, Tamil Nadu India Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None DOI: 10.4103/MJ.MJ_1_20

The much-awaited dream of many educationalists across India has finally turned into reality and we have shifted to the competency-based curriculum for the undergraduates from the 2019 academic year. With close to 4 months into this transition and implementation, we have realized a wide range of strengths-weaknesses-opportunities-challenges (SWOC) and it is the need of the hour to learn from the same and plan our curriculum in such a manner that the execution of the same can be significantly improved in the coming years. Even though, challenges are there, but it is important to understand and have a belief that all this has been done to improve the health care services offered to the general population. In conclusion, the competency-based curriculum for undergraduate students has to be looked upon as an opportunity to produce competent and globally acceptable doctors and thus it is high time that all the stakeholders accept this as a challenge and work in a concerted manner to accomplish the intended goals.



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