SRIMEDCON 2024 – MEDICAL EDUCATORS FINE TUNE LEARNING TECHNIQUES AT WORLD MEET AT SRIHER

12th July, 2024.

A three day international conference on medical education SRIMEDCON 2024 is under way at Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research here today where over 200 medical educators from India and abroad are discussing innovative approaches to promote excellence in medical education. On this occasion the Chancellor Mr. V.R. Venkataachalam inaugurated a virtual reality lab for simulation learning for medical and para medical students.

Speaking on the occasion Dr. Makani Purva, Professor of Simulation, Hull York Medical School, UK said simulation can be an answer to many of our challenges in medical education and healthcare delivery. While it can never replace real life education it can certainly enhance practicing and learning outcomes. It is now realised worldwide that it is unacceptable to learn on patients. Simulation education itself faces many challenges like which competencies can be taught in it and can it promote evidence based healthcare delivery. We need to standardise these aspects and learn from global experiences, she added.

Dr. Sajith Kumar, Prof. emeritus, department of infectious diseases Government Medical College Kottayam said the first batch of MBBS students under the competency based medical education system has come out successfully across the country and it is still evolving. We need to include telemedicine, artificial intelligence and digital health in it. While the students find CBME more comfortable and convenient reducing the contents and assessing the achievements of competencies by the graduates across the medical colleges in the country are concerns that need to be addressed, he added.

Earlier in his welcome address Dr. K. Balaji Singh, Dean, Medical College said the pre-conference workshops discussed important subjects like designing programmatic assessment, training clinical skills and certification of skills, crafting educational quality indicators for global and national ranking, imparting effective research and publication in medical education and enhancing clinical skills through simulation. All these workshops focused on immersive, hands-on learning experiences, fostering critical thinking and practical application to enhance the quality of medical education. Among those who participated in the event were Dr. Uma Sekar, Vice Chancellor and Dr. Mahesh Vakamudi, Pro Vice Chancellor and Dr. M. Shanthi, Academic Convenor, Medical Education, SRIHER.

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For more information please contact… Dr. K. Balaji Singh, Dean, Medical College, SRIHER, 9841044913.
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