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Vision 2015 - for Medical syllabus

Updated on: Monday, September 22, 2014

After 17 year steps are taken the modify the syllabus for medical courses. Medical council of India is in the final stage of giving a revision of undergraduate syllabus of medical courses.

Dr. M. Rajalakshmi, the Chief consultant in MCI of academic cell said in a press meeting, the steps are taken to convert MBBS syllabus competency based and this effort is in the completion stage. Medical council of India now is applying for a copy right. The next step is, MCI is proposed to publish this syllabus in the official web site. The modified syllabus is captioned as ‘vision 2015’! This kind of revision of syllabi of MBBS was done only in 1997. At that time, the duration of the course was reduced from 18 months to 12 months. In fact, only in 2007, new concepts were introduced in the Medical syllabus, and the thing is the content is just added with the existing syllabus. Medical council of India, beyond updating of syllabus is trying to train the medical teachers also.

The idea behind the revision is, developing maximum possible competency in the existing curriculum.

Now the students are supposed to wait till the end of the academic year to start their clinical practices. Now, they can start the clinical practices in the 1st year itself. It is felt that now, 1st year classes for MBBS is mostly text book oriented. Now, the efforts are taken in vision-2015 to put the students directly to clinical practices in the 1st year itself. It is planned to introduced subjects like Radiology and surgery in the first year it self.

After 17 year steps are taken the modify the syllabus for medical courses. Medical council of India is in the final stage of giving a revision of undergraduate syllabus of medical courses.

Dr. M. Rajalakshmi, the Chief consultant in MCI of academic cell said in a press meeting, the steps are taken to convert MBBS syllabus competency based and this effort is in the completion stage. Medical council of India now is applying for a copy right. The next step is, MCI is proposed to publish this syllabus in the official web site. The modified syllabus is captioned as ‘vision 2015’! This kind of revision of syllabi of MBBS was done only in 1997. At that time, the duration of the course was reduced from 18 months to 12 months. In fact, only in 2007, new concepts were introduced in the Medical syllabus, and the thing is the content is just added with the existing syllabus. Medical council of India, beyond updating of syllabus is trying to train the medical teachers also.

The idea behind the revision is, developing maximum possible competency in the existing curriculum.

Now the students are supposed to wait till the end of the academic year to start their clinical practices. Now, they can start the clinical practices in the 1st year itself. It is felt that now, 1st year classes for MBBS is mostly text book oriented. Now, the efforts are taken in vision-2015 to put the students directly to clinical practices in the 1st year itself. It is planned to introduced subjects like Radiology and surgery in the first year it self.

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