Open AccessUndergraduate pharmacology curriculum at an international medical college in India
Author(s) -
Vasudha Devi,
Vishal Bhat,
Ganesh K Shenoy
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
indian journal of pharmacology/the indian journal of pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.286
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1998-3751
pISSN - 0253-7613
DOI - 10.4103/0253-7613.193322
Subject(s) - curriculum , conceptualization , medical education , relevance (law) , engineering ethics , clinical pharmacology , medicine , psychology , pharmacology , pedagogy , engineering , political science , computer science , artificial intelligence , law
Pharmacology is an important aspect of rational therapeutics. There has been a long-standing need for a change in the undergraduate medical curriculum of pharmacology. A review of literature throws up different approaches to improve the curriculum and to provide more importance to conceptualization and relevance to clinical practice. This article describes the undergraduate pharmacology curriculum which is revised to meet the needs of our unique status as an international medical college in India. We highlight how our curriculum prepares the students for future clinical practice by inculcating higher cognitive skills and soft skills. This article also provides a model for program evaluation and also challenges faced by our department while executing the planned curriculum.