Improving Discipline-Based Undergraduate Medical Curriculum

An appraisal of discipline based undergraduate medical curriculum.- Social accountability: the purpose of medical schools.- Basics of curriculum and curriculum change.- Research and evidence in education.- A practical approach to improving discipline-based undergraduate medical curriculum.- Educational leadership.- The curriculum committee.- Faculty development.- Student support.- Educational environment.- Programme evaluation.- The JIPMER experience with phase I MBBS.

Dr Kadambari Dharanipragada works as a professor in the department of surgery at Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India. She also heads the department of medical education at JIPMER. She completed the FAIMER-Keele Master of Health Professions Education (MHPE) and was awarded the MHPE.
She has participated and conducted onsite and offsite training programs for teachers in the health profession including faculty, nurse educators and senior residents and the revised basic course workshops of the medical council of India as part of the activities of the regional centre of the Medical Council of India (MCI). She is currently the coordinator for curriculum reform of the MBBS course at JIPMER. She has also contributed to developing programs of health education for the public on various aspects of health and disease, taken part in conducting and organising health awareness camps particularly in the field of oncology. Her area of interest in surgery is breast surgery and particularly in oncoplastic breast surgery for breast cancer. She has visited the department of breast and endocrine surgery at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden and has pioneered the practice of oncoplasty in JIPMER. She was the organising secretary of the 1st JIPMER breast oncoplasty conference. Dr. Dharanipragada has many publications to her credit.
Dr. Santosh Kumar presently works as technical consultant in the department of medical education at Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER). Prior to this, Dr. Kumar has been head of the department of medical education and department of urology, project officer and core group faculty member of National Teacher Training Centre (NTTC), JIPMER. He has organized, coordinated and functioned as a resource person in educational activities of the department including national courses on educational science for teachers of health professionals

"This book presents strategies to improve discipline-based undergraduate medical curriculum including outcome-based education. It opens with a section on the strengths and limitations of discipline-based education, and then discusses in some depth the history of research in medical education and what constitutes evidence-informed approaches." (Patricia A. Thomas, Doody's Book Reviews, January, 25, 2019)