Invitation
The medical education in India has undergone an important change in
the year 2019. The erstwhile Medical council of India (MCI) released
the “Regulations on Graduate Medical Education (Amendment), 2019”
and started implementing new curriculum changes in the form of
competency based medical education (CBME) from the academic year
2019-20 onwards. The new undergraduate medical education programme
was designed with a goal to create an “Indian Medical Graduate” (IMG)
possessing requisite knowledge, skills, attitudes, values and
responsiveness, so that she or he may function appropriately and
effectively as a physician of first contact of the community while
being globally relevant.
Many of us would have undergone training in the revised basic course
and the Curriculum implementation support program (CISP) at our
respective MCI identified nodal centres. However, this new exercise
needs much more than training by trainers to understand and
contribute to the new goals set by our national authorities.
Interactions at various levels including student-teacher and
teacher-teacher interactions form an important component of
implementation of such novel training goals.
Keeping this in mind, AP AMBICON 2020 has taken an initiative of
conducting this virtual conference with CBME as the main theme. This
conference aims to focus mainly on the competencies assigned to
Biochemistry which would have been just mentioned once or twice as
examples during the group activity during the training programmes.
In this conference, we wish to provide an in-depth understanding of
the various components of the new curriculum as it applies to
Biochemistry through various lecture sessions and the workshops
planned so that it will help the faculty of our state in a
methodical implementation of the GMER (Amendment), 2019.We are
planning to bring in the experience of the senior faculty and to
design the sessions to be lively in the form of guest lectures,
workshops, debates and panel discussions. Exchange of ideas during
the panel discussion and the debate would pave way for
recommendations which can be further submitted to the National
Medical Council (NMC) through our association in further fine tuning
of the curriculum. Apart from focusing on the competency based
programme for MBBS as per GMER (Amendment), 2019, we shall be having
online oral and poster presentation sessions which shall provide a
platform for the faculty and students to present their research
works.
We are confident that this virtual conference will stimulate you
towards more effective implementation of CBME in your institutions
and bring out a competent IMG, the immediate challenge in front of
all of us. Though we miss you in person at the conference, we hope
to create a long-standing impact in the years to come.
I request all the faculty members and students from the state of
Andhra Pradesh to participate and contribute to this event and make
it a grand success.
Dr Aparna R. Bitla
Organizing Chairperson,
AP AMBICON 2020
Professor and Head, Department of Biochemistry,
Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences,
Tirupati