The Medical Council of India has recently released the document titled Competency Based Undergraduate Curriculum for The Indian Medical Graduate (2018).[1] It has been officially announced that the new curriculum will be introduced for the MBBS students from the academic year 2019–2020. It seeks to replace the existing curriculum, which was notified in 1997. Competency is the central theme in the document. The competencies to be acquired by the student are divided into general competencies and subcompetencies (or subject-wise competencies).
Under the latter, there are 23 subjects (including preclinical, paraclinical, medicine and allied, and surgery and allied subjects). Under these, there are 412 topics, and under these, 2949 competencies are to be taught during the entire curriculum. The new curriculum has a separate module called AETCOM – Attitude, Ethics, and Communication…
