Medical Education Unit 

About the department:
The Medical Education Unit (MEU) of SDM College of Medical Sciences and Hospital, Dharwad was established in 2004 as per the directions of Medical Council of India. The unit started with the initial efforts of conducting regular faculty development programs (FDPs) for teaching faculty of the institute. The FDPs were organized by the unit biannually to ensure regular up gradation of teaching learning activities in the institute.
The MEU of the institute has been playing a key role in not only training faculty but also organizing regular Medical Council of India recognized workshops regularly from 2014.
From those initial efforts now the Medical Education Unit regularly conducts Medical Council of India recognized “Revised Basic Course Workshop in Medical Education Technology” every year.
 
MEU strives hard to help achieve the following objectives
  1. To train teachers as efficient and effective educators.
  2. To plan, implement and evaluate curricular development and faculty development in the medical college in alignment with the Medical Council of India initiatives. 
  3. To ensure faculty development by conducting faculty development programs and workshops through the team of members conducting basic course workshops as per Medical Council of India.
  4. Sensitize and facilitate Information and Communication technology integration in the medical curriculum.
  5. To extend the platform for curriculum innovations and ensure curriculum development through the curriculum committee. 
  6. To inspire students and interns for self directed learning and lifelong learning through various orientation and induction programs.
  7. To constantly update and improve teaching – learning methodology for students and teachers.
  8. To train the staff and students for effective research.
  9. To extend help to the faculty to undergo advanced courses in medical education.
  10. To ensure continuous quality improvement in Medical education 
 
Functioning and activities:
  1. Meetings: MEU meetings are convened 5 times a year. Need based additional meetings are also convened. Predetermined agenda circulated to all members, deliberate on agenda issues during meeting followed by action taken reports circulated to members. 
  2. Annual Revised basic course workshops: Organized as per Nodal centre and Medical council of India directions
  3. Orientation and induction programs: conducted annually for all fresher’s, clinical phase and final year medical students
  4. Post Graduate orientation and research methodology workshops: conducted annually for every batch of post graduates at the beginning of the course of masters degree and diploma in all subjects.
  5. Synopsis guidance and refresher programs: conducted for post graduates before submission to the university every year
  6. Teaching-learning (T/L) skill training for post graduates: all final year post graduates trained for T/L skill during pedagogy/andragogy training sessions.
  7. Development of in-house E-learning modules for under graduates: software based training and evaluation of students in multiple choice, problem/scenario/case based learning questions.
  8. Feedback collection and evaluation: collection and evaluation from all batches of outgoing students done and corrective measures suggested wherever required.
  9. Advanced course in medical education: faculty of the institute encouraged to undergo advanced training in medical education at nodal centre to which the institute is affiliated.
  10. Mentorship programs for students

 

First Curriculum Implementation Support Program (CISP) Details of the workshop:
Date held: 9th to 11th May 2019
 
Venue: Seminar Hall 1, Manjushree block, SDM College of Medical Sciences &Hospital, Dharwad
 
Participants: 30 teaching staff of pre, para and clinical subjects of SDM College of Medical Sciences &Hospital, Dharwad
Format of the workshop: The workshop had various sessions on Competency Based Medical Education (CBME), Objective writing workshop, TL Methods, Integration and Alignment, AETCOM, Foundation Course, Early clinical exposure, Electives, Skills training and assessment in CBME discussed over three days with group activities and feedback 

  

 

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