Amritsar : The Medical Education Unit (MEU) of Government Medical College (GMC), organized a two-day Curriculum Implementation Support Program (CISP) training workshop on September 18th & 19th. Thirty faculty members from different departments across the college participated in this faculty development program as per NMC guidelines .
The training program was formally inaugurated on September 18th by Dr. Rajiv Devgan, Director Principal of GMC Amritsar. Dr. Rohit John Chaudhary from CMC, Ludhiana, monitored the event as the official observer appointed by the National Medical Commission (NMC).
The workshop was conducted under the expert guidance of the MEU Coordinator, Dr. Loveena Oberoi and facilitated by Curriculum Committee (CC) unit members: Dr. Mridu Gupta, Dr. Ajay Chhabra, Dr. Navyugraj Singh, Dr. Saroj Bala, Dr. Rajiv Arora, and Dr. Bhupinder Singh Walia.
The main objective of the workshop was to train the faculty on Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) and its newer components, such as Early Clinical Exposure, the AETCOM module, newer teaching-learning methods, skill training, and student doctor clinical teaching.
MEU Coordinator, Dr. Loveena Oberoi emphasized that by adopting these modern, learner-centric, and patient-centric approaches, the ultimate aim is to improve medical education and provide better services to patients.
The workshop was highly interactive with lot of open discussion with the participants. IThe highly interactive workshop came to an end with feedback from participants and faculty .The two-day event concluded with certification and knowledge dissipation.