Challenges in Implementing Competency-based Medical Education in India - Stakeholders' Perspective: A Mixed-method Analysis.

Introduction: Competency-based Medical Education (CBME) was introduced in the year 2019 in India. It has brought about major changes in medical education. The curriculum is learner centric, outcome based, focuses on the development of core competencies and professionalism.

Association of COVID-19 With Emergence of Comorbidities: A Hospital-Based Cohort Study.

Background: In 2019, the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 marked the beginning of the COVID-19 global pandemic, which reached its peak in 2020. Initially designated as a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 emerged as a respiratory illness and later began causing multi-organ complications in recovered patients.

Methods: This article presents a hospital-based retrospective cohort study conducted via telephone interviews with patients in a tertiary hospital.

Development of a structured validated module to inculcate research skills in medical undergraduates.

Background Evidence-based research aids in decision-making in the health sector for developing health policies for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Medical research is not taught in the undergraduate curriculum. Studies show that attributes of research knowledge, awareness and practical involvement in research are low among undergraduate students.

Seroprevalence with epidemiological determinants of hepatitis C virus and Treponema pallidum infection in blood donors of a teaching hospital in southwest Punjab, India: A 5-year study.

Background: A high seroprevalence of various transfusion-transmitted infections (TTIs) in donated blood is the main safety concern, especially in low- and middle-income countries. As per the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation, all blood donations must be tested for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), Treponema pallidum infection, and malaria, which mainly comprises the major bulk of TTIs.

Aims: The purpose of this study is to observe the seroprevalence of hepatitis C virus and Treponema pallidum infection over the period of 5 years in blood donors of our blood center along with their epidemiological determinants with respect to age, sex, residence, occupation, and type of donors.

Structured feedback: A teaching and learning tool for the postgraduate medical students in transfusion medicine.

Context: Structured Feedback is a learning and assessment tool designed to provide feedback to students and educators to adjust learning and teaching during the training. Lack of provision of structured feedback to postgraduate (PG) medical students prompted us to plan a study to introduce a structured feedback module into the existing monthly assessment schedules in the Department of Transfusion Medicine.

Aim: This study aims to introduce a structured feedback module and evaluate its efficacy after incorporation into the existing monthly assessment schedules for the PG students in the Department of Transfusion Medicine.

Implementation of Self-Directed Learning in Physiology for Phase 1 Undergraduate Medical Students.

Background: One of the primary roles played by Indian medical graduates is that of a lifelong learner. To this end, students must acquire the habit of self-directed learning (SDL). Lack of SDL skills among undergraduate medical students is a concern; hence, this study was designed to introduce SDL in physiology to phase 1 undergraduate medical students and assess its effectiveness through student and faculty perceptions.

Evaluation of the Institutional Educational Environment by using the Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure.

Background: Evaluation of the educational climate has been highlighted as key to the delivery of high-quality medical education. Health educators across places and educational settings have widely used the Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure (DREEM) to appraise their institutions' educational climate.

Objectives: The aim is to assess the educational environment of our Institution and to find the association with the related variables.

Evaluation of Peripartum Depression in Females.

Background: Depression is the most common mental health condition affecting perinatal women and mothers worldwide. Worldwide, about 10% of pregnant women and 13% of women who have given birth experience a mental disorder, primarily depression. In developing countries like India, this is even higher, i.

Vitamin D Levels: Do We Need to Assess Only in Disease?

Background: Vitamin D is conventionally known as sunshine vitamin and is synthesized endogenously in sunlight. Vitamin D is known to be a key regulator of bone metabolism, the function of genes, and essential for the development of the whole body. Deficiency of Vitamin D is now become a major worldwide epidemic health problem.

Module for Interns in Medical Ethics: A Developmental Diegesis.

Background: Media report is rife with incidences of doctor-patients' conflict, and this partly is due to communication gap and unethical practices being adopted by the doctors. Our regular curriculum fails to impart any training in ethical issues in patient care. Imparting training to students in these soft-skills is the need of the hour.