MCI Introduces Foundation Prog On Professionalism For MBBS Students

New Delhi: The Medical Council of India (MCI) has introduced a compulsory foundation course on professionalism and ethics for undergraduate MBBS students across all medical institutes in the country.

The course details:
The programme will be of one-month duration.

The objective will be to help students know their professional duties and responsibilities towards the patients, besides ethical standards. The doctors in the making are expected to exhibit accountability, altruism, empathy, compassion and humanism.

The programme will impart soft skills so as to communicate with the patients diligently.

Knowing the disability rights will be one of the key focus areas. This will prepare them to handle such patients with special care.

“Most often it is assumed that students will acquire soft skills suchn as communication, empathy and professionalism with time and experience. But it is imperative to formally teach the undergraduates the fundamental concepts. The founation course is a consequence of the focus on upgrading the medical curriculum,” MCI chairman V K Paul told Times of India in an interview.

The one-month foundation programme will train the students on local language as well as it is an important part of effective communication.