DEPT OF MEDICAL EDUCATION,
PSG I.M.S.R
A faculty development center which provides leadership training to facilitate better learning by students
A planning meet of the "Core Group" faculty members of the department ========================
Facilitating Quality Improvement in Medical Education: Principal Dr Ramalingam at the National Symposium " Vision 2020- Towards Global Standards in Health Professions Education" in 2005
President of WFME Prof Hans Karle releasing the Recommendations of the Workshop to improve Quality of Medical Education during the National Symposium at PSG IMSR ========================= The PSG-FAIMER Regional Institute
National & International Faculty meet before the Regional Institute at PSG | The Department of Medical Education was started within a couple of years of existence of PSG IMSR, long before it was made mandatory by the Medical Council of India. It strives for improving the quality of Medical Education besides making the teaching Student centered , Competency-based and Community oriented. It is a member of the International organization promoting medical education "The Network: TUFH" based at Maastricht, The Netherlands. It is steered by a "Core-Group" of more than 20 Faculty who have recieved advanced training in Medical Education in India & Abroad.
It conducts various Faculty development programs for its faculty namely Workshops on Teaching-Learning and Evaluation, Enhancing Effectiveness of Clinical Skills Training, Research Ethics, Human Resource Development and Research Methodology for post graduate students and faculty guiding them in research besides Orientation sessions for Freshers to enhance their Learning skills. These Workshops have been thrown open to Faculty from other Institutions in the State. Among the new activities started this year is formation of a "Core group on Educational Research". This will facilitate capacity of its faculty to carry out educational research so that it will lead to improving the teaching program in the institution. Periodic feedback from students is used to revise training programs including the Internship during which emphasis is given to provide learning opportunities for learning skills & procedures required to function as a doctor. As part of PSG IMSR's Second Decennial Celebrations, it contributed to Nation Building in the field of Medical Education to host the National Symposium "Vision 2020: Towards Global Standards in Health professions Education" in which Deans, Medical educators and Policy makers like the MCI, Vice Chancellors of State Medical Universities took part and came out with recommendations to improve Standard of Medical Education in the country using the WFME Global Standards. . . . The department's Core Group faculty also enables the Institution to host the PSG-FAIMER Regional Institute which is a Leadership development program of the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER) of ECFMG, USA to train medical college faculty to improve quality of medical education and research in the South Asia Region. For more information about this program click here. And to apply for this program click here |
