Flipping and Engaging: Usefulness of Case-Based Flipped Classroom in Ensuring Conceptual Learning under Competency-Based Medical Education

Abstract

The 21st century has seen tremendous evolution in the field of medical education, alongside massive use of technology for learner interaction and engagement to ensure contextual learning. Keeping in line with the global trend in medical education, the National Medical Council of India introduced Competency-Based Medical Education in 2019 for medical graduates. Competency-Based Medical Education is an outcome-based approach that focuses on the abilities that medical professionals should possess to provide medical care to the population. It is designed to create an “Indian Medical Graduate” possessing requisite knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, and responsiveness, so that she or he may function appropriately and effectively as a physician of first contact of the community while being globally relevant. This requires shifting the teaching-learning activities from traditional to modern innovative approaches. Active learning strategies in competency-based medical education are interactive lectures, Flipped classrooms, discussion-based, Scenario-based, problem-based, case-based, team-based, and peer teaching. Among these, we have used Flipped classrooms with case-based exercises during class. PowerPoint presentations of the lecture and resources from the textbook were provided beforehand, with instructions to the students that they are required to read before the scheduled face-to-face class. During the class in the form of multiple choice questions, discussion was carried out for the topic which included case-based multiple choice questions, and case-based scenarios to emphasize the topic. It is observed that students of the current generation enjoy more interactive and task-based sessions.