A brand new module on ‘Pandemic Administration’ will make the brand new docs future prepared, mentioned state-based specialists. “Pandemic was a shock of kinds for the medical fraternity a yr in the past. However throughout the globe, medical training is including competence based mostly on experiences of varied international locations,” really feel specialists.
Senior officers within the state well being division mentioned that after the pandemic is beneath management, state will set up on precedence pathological labs in every medical school to create experience in virology and microbiology.
New module to be 80 hours lengthy
Dr Chetna Desai, HoD of pharmacology at BJ Medical Faculty and coordinator of Medical Schooling Unit on the school, mentioned that the 80-hour module launched by Medical Council of India (MCI) focuses on all facets of pandemic proper from surveillance to communication expertise required to work together with sufferers and family members.
“The pandemic required an addition of talent units for D medical college students – starting from data of donning/ doffing of PPE package to pattern assortment, vaccination, emergency care, demise associated administration, and so forth. The modules can be taught by completely different departments together with drugs, neighborhood drugs, pharmacology, biochemistry, microbiology and anaesthesiology,” mentioned Dr Desai.
Officers additionally pointed at rising fields like telemedicine, contact tracing, and affected person psychology that will be a part of curriculum .
Dr Pratik Patel, dean of the NHL Municipal Medical Faculty, mentioned that the MBBS college students can be taught the brand new module from this tutorial yr.
Dr Aparajita Shukla, HoD of neighborhood drugs at NHL-MMC and convener of MCI-designated Nodal Centre for school growth, mentioned that sure parts of the Module on Pandemic Administration by MCI have been being addressed in older curriculum and extra so within the new curriculum launched in 2019.