Simulated Patients for Competency-Based Undergraduate Medical Education Post COVID-19: A New Normal in India.

ABSTRACT: The conventional medical curriculum in India needed more focus on explicit teaching and assessment of interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, team-work and reflection for prevention and better management of increasing incidences of violence against doctors by building good doctor-patient relationships. Increasing number of seats in Indian medical colleges, decreasing hospital stay of patients, and decrease in faculty requirements will hamper adequate supervised authentic clinical experiences of undergraduates for developing clinical skills. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has led to a significant decrease in student-patient encounters. Simulated patients are being used in many countries to address many of these issues. To make the Indian medical graduates competent to functio

SUBMITTER: Kapoor A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8464191 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature