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Taking classes to the doctors' doorstep

Bindu Shajan Perappadan

Continuing Medical Education programme being re-modelled from the New Year

NEW DELHI: Realising that it is difficult to get doctors willingly back into school, the Delhi Medical Council (DMC) has re-modelled its Continuing Medical Education (CME) programme.

Turning away from forced spoon-feeding and picking up a more participatory approach to get the city doctors to be present at the CME classes, the DMC is all set to launch the trial run of its pilot programme in the Capital this coming January.

The CME for doctors is designed to keep physicians updated about the very latest in the field of medicine and the changing needs of patients and is delivered by experienced faculty.

This latest programme will cover 20 new CME centres across the Capital and will have a standardised syllabus.

With this new scheme, the DMC is now virtually taking the CME classes to doctors' doorstep and with all centres teaching the same lessons across the Capital, doctors also have the option of choosing the centre they wants to go to.

This latest programme will be evaluated after a four-month trial run and then would be available for replication in other parts of the country.

Speaking about this latest programme, DMC president A. K. Agarwal said: ``We have over 31,000 members in the Capital and most of them are primary health care providers who need to be given a structured syllabus and a programme that keeps them up to date with the most modern technology, procedures and research work in medicine. Classes will be kept simple, interesting and relevant.''

Programme

The programme is equipped to cover doctors in both government and private sector and in case it is successful, it would be extended to 70 new centres across the Capital, making it available in at least a couple of centres in all districts across Delhi.

"Though the world over doctors understand the need for CME, the lack of a structured programme and time constrain has been among the major problems for physicians.

Under the new programme that will be introduced in the Capital, we have worked at eliminating both these problems. Doctors would be provided CME at their doorstep and in a structured manner, which has never happened before in the country.

Also, doctors under this new programme will now study subjects that extend beyond their area of work, which is important given the growing relevance of inter-disciplinary ventures and the need to remain updated about the very latest,'' said DMC registrar and secretary S. K. Khattri.

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