Established in 2014, as per the directions of Medical Council of India under the Nodal centre (St. John’s Medical College), the department currently has a strength of 13 faculty certified by NMC with training in the Nodal Centre (St. John’s Medical College) and are therefore qualified as resource persons for conducting Medical Education Technology workshops. It has all the infrastructure and equipment as per NMC guidelines. This has lead us towards innovative curricular reforms resulting in integrated undergraduate medical curriculum. The faculty development programs conducted in association with the NMC in parallel to curriculum development equipped the faculty and leadership for the curricular changes.
Medical Education Unit (MEU) organized a 2-day Curriculum Implementation Support Program (CISP) – II, sensitization workshop on 27th & 28th January 2021 under the aegis of nodal center St John’s Medical College Bangalore, monitored by Dr. Kiran Mahadevappa. The workshop was attended by 29 participants’ and 10 resource faculty from MEU. Taking in account the current pandemic scenario; the workshop was organized considering the social distancing norms, and provision of preventive measures. All participants and resource faculties were wearing mask during the entire workshop. Participants were provided with the required learning resources in hand before the workshop itself as per the directions from the nodal center, pretest was conducted before workshop. Appropriate learning facilities with AV aids were arranged at the venue. Feedback and Open House, and Valedictory / Post-test session was conducted on day two. The entire workshop was meticulously planned as per the standard guidelines provided by the nodal center. The sessions were made more interesting by providing the hands on training and planned activities, which ensured active learner participation. Entire MEU team was enthusiastically involved in planning and managing the workshop. The workshop was monitored by NMC observer online throughout. The observer in his concluding remarks expressed his happiness for attending the workshop, he appreciated the entire MEU team for the time bound smooth conduct of the workshop providing an entirely unique learning experience to all participants including himself.
MEU organized its second Revised Basic Course workshop (RBCW) in Medical Education Technologies from 17 th to 19 th August 2021, a 3 days program under the aegis of the Nodal Center, St John’s Medical College, Bangalore. Dr.Chandrika from MSR Medical College was the NMC Observer for the workshop. A total of 30 participants attended this workshop.
There were 20 sessions for RBCW covering all the topics as per the format of the National Medical Commission of India. These sessions were conducted by MEU resource facilitators. All the sessions were very informative and interactive with many group exercises, videos and roleplays. It was highly appreciated by the participants and the NMC Observer alike. A pre and post-test was given and analyzed. Feedback of the sessions were taken for all three days, evaluated and discussed with the participants. Power point presentations and other resource materials were shared with the participants. The participants were addressed by NMC Observer who presented the workshop report. Few of the participants also shared their experiences of this three days workshop. At the end, Certificates were distributed to all the participants. The program concluded with the vote of thanks proposed by Dr. Anitha MR, Co-ordinator MEU.
The revised basic course workshop on Medical Education Training and AETCOM (Attitude, Ethics and Communication) for faculty members was conducted between 26 th to 28 th June, 2019 at AIMS &RC, under the aegis of NMC Nodal Centre, St John’s Medical college, Bangalore.the observer for the workshop was Dr Chandrika, from MSRMC, Bangalore.
The Revised Basic Course Workshop for the training of faculty regarding Medical Education Training Program and AETCOM (Attitude, Ethics and Communication) was inaugurated and was attended by 30 participants. It was a 3-day training programme where the faculties from various disciplines underwent training regarding the medical curriculum. The whole training programme was well planned with hands on practical workshops interspersed in between lectures so that the trainees got a notion of the ground difficulties they might face and how to address them via a collective, coordinated and scientific approach. Various case scenarios with ethical issues were introduced to the participants and a very enthusiastic discussion was set into motion where every participant got involved sharing their views and counterviews which were balanced by the facilitators driving home the basic importance of this aspect of the curriculum for the current and future batches of medical trainees. The session ended with feedback from the trainees and valedictory function.
