Recommendations of Medical Curriculam

Name: Dr.N.Seetharaman, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Community Medicine

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--

Dr.N.Seetharaman MD