Name : Dr RK Sood
Medical Administration
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The teaching should focus on the applied part with public health practice. the focus should be on how the doctor is going to run a primary health centre with basic facilities. Focus on expensive investigations, and theoretical concepts needs to be discouraged. The teching should be with a understanding of the wider scope of health- determinants like water sanitation environment are rarely appreciated by young medical graduates. Treating anaemia in the medical model by tonics will never solve the problem.Skill based learning- commuication skills are essential in addition to medical to be a good manager and leader. The concept of equity, empathy and respect for the right of the patients, social responsibility and ethical practice should be inculcated through exampe by the faculty. firstly there needs to be reform in the medical sector by imposing checks on private practice by faculty.an intersectoral approach to medical education by field visits to health programme and good interventions being done by NGOs.Last but not the least, Research methodology should be taught to undergraduate medical students.
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Name: Dr.N.Seetharaman
Medical College Faculties
There are two distinct issues i would like to recommend
1. Applied Nutrition:
MBBS doctors are equipped with next-to-nil knowledge/skills regarding Nutrition and the application of nutritional principles for different diseases. The very little students learn about nutrition is during their Com.Med curricula where they mug-up some calorie/protein values of common food items and the like.
What needs to be done is to include APPLIED nutrition as a subject (maybe within general medicine/maybe without a separate exam/maybe part of internship)in the MBBS curriculum. THIS NEEDS TO BE TAUGHT, IT CANNOT BE ASSUMED TO BE SELF-LEARNT
2. Computer / Internet Literacy:
In this modern age of rapid medical research, doctors need to be in constant touch with the current developments in medicine. For this they need to be well versed in the SKILL of online data accessing/retrieval. This skill NEEDS to be taught at SOME POINT of the medical curriculum. We have tried doing this as part of the our Com.Med Internship program, and it has been a Great success.
What needs to be done is to systematically teach the SKILL of online literacy to MBBS doctors (preferably) as a part of their internship
Our medical curriculum should aim at developing each medical students as five star doctors....having skills in 5 key areas.... 1. Medical Care Provision 2. Communication 3. Managerial Skills 4. Decision Making and 5. Community Leadership...
Job responsibilities of each category of workers in Health services should be MUST KNOW and not DESIRABLE to KNOW
Its is really the need of the hour as there is no uniformity in the curriculum followed in India. I have gone through the curriculum and I must thank the persons responsible for this well balanced curriculum.
The following are the changes I think necessary in the Forensic Medicine curriculum:
Course contents:
In 7. include Medical Examiners' System also, though it is not practiced in India, students should know its benefits.
In 17. Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act 1972, the word act was omitted.
Medical Jurisprudence
10. Certification of birth, death, illness and fitness should be included in MUST KNOW section as each and every doctor have to issue these certificates and many of the practicing doctors do not know how to write a certificate.
Toxicology:
Must know "General Principle of Management of Poisoning cases"
Suggested Text Books must include-
1. Modi's Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology,
2. The Essentials Of Forensic Medicine And Toxicology,
by Dr. K.S.N. Reddy. apart from the other suggested books.
and lastly, the suggested Journals should include 'Journal of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine'
Thank you all again for this nice effort.
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