Last Updated on May 29, 2022 by The Health Master
The Medical Council of India (MCI) has introduced a pandemic management module for undergraduate students. The module discusses vaccine strategy, therapeutics strategy, infection control, outbreak management, emerging procedures, intensive care management and palliative care during pandemics.
This pandemic management module is designed to ensure that the MBBS student acquires competencies in handling not only the illness, but also the social, legal and other issues from such diseases outbreaks.
This document has been prepared, considering the metamorphosis of a first year MBBS student to the Indian Medical Graduate (IMG) and the knowledge and competence that is expected from him/her in adapting to and managing a clinical condition that is predicted to happen, too often in the form of outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics, during his/her career.
Microbiology, community medicine, pharmacology, general medicine department and anaesthesiology department will integrate the module in their subjects.
“A pandemic or disease outbreak calls into play all the five roles envisaged for the Indian medical graduate such as clinician, communicator, leader and member of health care team, professional, life-long learner, and committed to excellence, is ethical, responsive and accountable to patients. One of the desirable outcomes of the competency derived education program is to enable Indian medical graduate to be prepared to be unknown-to be able to understand, investigate, treat and prevent new and emerging diseases as a clinician, community leader and scholar,” stated MCI.
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“The longitudinal module on pandemic management extending from foundation course to the final year undergraduate program prepared by the academic cell and expert group is designed to provide year-wise detailed protocols in training the students to fulfill their role as a doctor, leader and healer during this difficult period of a rampaging pandemic,” added Dr RK Vats, secretary MCI.
The council stated, “We hope that teachers and institutions will benefit in creating a generation of Indian medical graduates who will be able to provide promotive, preventive and curative aspects of health care to the nation in times of extreme need like the outbreak of an pandemic.”
MCI was established in 1934 under the IMC Act, 1933, with the main function of establishing uniform standards of higher qualifications in medicine and recognition of medical qualifications in India and abroad. The objective of the council is to maintain uniform standards of medical education, both undergraduate and postgraduate and to recommend recognition/de-recognition of medical qualifications of medical institutions of India or foreign countries.
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