8. SYSTEMS APPROACH & LEARNING
PROCESS IN MED EDUCATION
MEDICAL COLLEGE as a system
Medical college(sysyem) has a number
of subsystems to achieve its goal
11. Why change the trend now?
NUMBER OF MEDICAL COLLEGES IN INDIA 500 plus
CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION IS NOT EVEN
CHANGING HEALTHCARE SCENARIO
LAST MEDICAL GRADUATE REGULATION WAS DONE IN 1997
NEED TO MAKE OUR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES
RELEVANT TO THE CHANGING TIMES
13. STEPS IN EDUCATION SPIRAL
In the spiral education approach,the first basic facts
of a subject are learned without worrying about details
In spiral teaching the teacher moves upward but keeps
returning to the fundamentals
It encourages the students to reinforce the subject in a
stepwise manner & teacher can also improvise on the
T/L methods based on the feedback
14. MEDICAL EDUCATION
HAS TO BE DEFINED IN TERMS OF ROLES,GOALS
& OBJECTIVES
CURRICULUM HAS TO BE SHAPED SELECTIVELY
TO ACHIEVE THE GOAL
PROCESS INVOLVES DYNAMIC INTERACTION
BETWEEN THE EDUCATOR & THE LEARNER
19. EVOLUTION OF MEU
GRADUATE MEDICAL REGULATIONS,1997 has made it
mandatory to establish MEDICAL EDUCATION UNITS for
faculty development
MCI has been regularly conducting FACULTY
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES since 2009
MCI selected 18 NODAL CENTRES for FDP
FAIMER is also assisting in FDP
Foundationfor Advancement of InternationalMedical Education & Research
Training of the faculty has started since JAN 2019
20. ROLE OF MEU
To arrange sensitisation programmes for all faculty
members regarding the principles of medical education
technology
To initiate teachers to evolve educational strategies so that
the lacunae existing in the present system could be
minimised
Help develop teaching & assessment methods
Promote educational research
Involve in programme evaluation & quality improvement of
the curriculum
21. Contd…ROLE OF MEU
To ensure that atleast one MEU member monitor the
use of SKILL LABS
Curriculum Committee members to meet 6 times per
year
To collect the reports & co-ordinate with the NC/RC
23. MEU TEAM OF VBMC
DR MUNEERUDHIN MEU Chairman
DR SRINIVAS MEU Co-ordinator
CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
DR SAILAJA
DR ANITA RAMESH
DR SARADA
DR SUDHASREE
DR CHANDRASHEKAR