REDEFINING MEDICAL EDUCATION IN INDIA: A PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

India has largest number of Medical Teaching institutions in the world. However, there has been a wide, qualitative and quantitative disparity in the teaching standards, infrastructures as well as competency of medical teachers and students in our country. Medical Education is a highly dynamic & evolving science that needs to be transformed to meet with the pace of the progress in the eld of medicine. It should be capable of adapting newer teaching modules as well as the socio-economic expectations and changing pattern of the diseases with ultimate aim to provide highly responsive and reliable health care delivery system in the country. The teaching should be able to generate enough interest and enthusiasm among medical students to inculcate ethos and practice of problem solving approach towards curative, preventive aspects of clinical medicine as well as commitments towards genuine research and innovations. Restructuring of curriculum & mode of medical education should directly focus on the need of better understanding of various aspects of managing Indian subcontinent based tropical, communicable, epidemiological & other diseases. The review article is aimed to highlight the role and reframing of Articial Intelligence as augmented intelligence in medical education, application of Competency-based medical education (CBME) that is to be effectively clubbed with the concept of lateral, vertical and horizontal integration of mode of education. The proposed module is comprised of Intra & Inter-professional team-based learning (TBL) of particular disease and its management strategies among various sub disciplines of medicine & clinical transformation of basic sciences. Stress will be on integration of medical education, basic and clinical research with biomedical research and innovations betting with the need of the country.