A #thread on paradigm shift in Indian medical education
How many of you doctors entered the hospital in the first week of joining MBBS, met clinicians, joined rounds or entered operation theatre or a clinic? It would have been at least a year & half before we did such things
How many of you doctors entered the hospital in the first week of joining MBBS, met clinicians, joined rounds or entered operation theatre or a clinic? It would have been at least a year & half before we did such things
The new curriculum involves a foundation course which has a component called 'Clinical shadowing' in the first week of them joining the course. It is an interesting concept which none of us have experienced among the old school doctors or even the batches which did MBBS recently
The new batch MBBS students have joined 2 days back with enthusiasm in their eyes we see in those initial days. I perceive a huge difference in this generation who are confident, outspoken & tech savvy. The idea of tagging is to give them a feel of the hospital right from day one
They are tagged to one faculty each for half day in the hospital in various departments & are supposed to observe how a clinician works, whether in out-patient, wards, OT etc and then give a feedback on their observations to their pre-clinical mentors.
The student tagged to me came to the operation theatre with me, quite confident & stood watching the procedure without any hesitation. I remembered how many of my classmates nearly fainted in the dissection hall in those first few days
I kept repeatedly enquiring whether he was comfortable but he was very sure he wants to stay n watch the whole procedure. Later I also came to know about his feedback and some interesting observations he had made
..About my conduct in the operating room, how I operated, Jokes with my postgraduates, my irritation with the scrub nurse for a wrong instrument etc. They keenly observe us & they follow. Hence faculty being a role model is paramount.
These are interesting times and I hope the new Indian medical graduate (IMG) will be a better doctor & human being to deal with the changing world and its challenges. I also hope that we can hand hold them in the best possible way !
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