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Department Overview

To be a leading Centre of Excellence in Medical Education, recognized for advancing health profession education across all faculties of medical and health sciences under Symbiosis International University.

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Vision

To be a centre of excellence in medical education that nurtures competent, compassionate, ethical, and lifelong learners by promoting innovation, quality, and continuous improvement in teaching, learning, assessment, and educational research.

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Mission

  • Promote excellence in medical education through continuous faculty development.
  • Facilitate effective implementation of Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME).
  • Strengthen innovative, student-centred teaching-learning practices.
  • Enhance assessment methods to ensure competency-based evaluation.
  • Encourage educational scholarship and research among faculty members.
  • Foster professionalism, ethics, communication skills, and lifelong learning.
  • Ensure quality assurance through regular monitoring, evaluation, and feedback.
  • Support curriculum planning, implementation, and review in alignment with NMC regulations.
  • Create an academic environment that promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and educational excellence.

Objectives

  • To develop leadership in Medical Education.
  • To actively contribute to effective curricular development, implementation, and monitoring, including faculty capacity-building activities in accordance with the National Medical Commission to effectively implement Competency-Based Medical Education.
  • To oversee and coordinate educational activities conducted at SMCW.
  • To conduct training activities for the capacity building of faculty members in educational science and technology.
  • To introduce advanced research programs in medical and health professional education.
  • To develop a robust e-learning system for teaching, learning, and assessment.
  • To provide mentoring and support in developing the simulation centre and skills lab.
  • To stay updated with current trends in medical education by conducting faculty development programs such as CMEs, conferences, workshops, and NCHPE.
  • To provide a platform for inter-institutional and international collaboration in developing new educational techniques and models.
  • To offer courses in medical education to support faculty in pursuing advanced training within the Medical Education Unit (MEU).
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    1st BCME Basic Course in Medical Education
    Session on: CBME
    Session on: Electives
    Session on: AITO: Understanding and Managing CA Breast: A Comprehensive Workshop: Linker as a case
    Assess Learn: “A Workshop on Integrated Learning & Assessment
    Blueprinting in Assesment: One-day workshop
    Women's Day Celebration:

    Faculty Information

    Name of the Faculty Designation
    Dr. V.K. Sashindran Dean
    Dr. Priti Shah MEU Coordinator, Professor, Department of General Surgery
    Resource Faculty
    Dr. Ashwini Patil MEU-Co-Convener; Professor and HOD, Department of Physiology
    Dr. Kalyani Mahajan Professor, Department of OBGY
    Dr. Shraddha Yadav Professor, Department of Pharmacology
    Dr. Bharati Deokar Sharma Professor, Department of Orthopedics
    Dr. Anjali Kher Deputy Dean- Research & Professor and Head, Department of Paediatrics
    Brig. Dr. N. Ramakrishnan (Retd) Professor and Head; Department of ENT
    Dr. Shruti Vimal Professor, Department of Pathology
    Dr. Tripti Borulkar Associate Professor, Department of Physiology

    Research Publications

    All faculty members of the department of ENT are continuously contributing to the field of research by regularly publishing their work in national and international journals.

      Activities Conducted

      Sr. No. Date Activity
      1 12th & 13th Jan 2023 Hands-on refresher faculty development workshop for LMS
      2 12th May 2023 Session on - CBME
      3 12th May 2023 Session on – Electives
      4 14th May 2023 Session on – AITO
      5 July 1, 2023 Breast Cancer Awareness Workshop
      6 14th July 2023 Journal club activity
      7 11th August 2023 Journal club activity
      8 September 13-15, 2023 1st BCME Workshop
      9 November 28, 2023 A workshop on Integration
      10 March 12, 2024 Blueprinting in Assessment: One day workshop
      11 September 4, 2024 Sesson on AITO: Understanding and Managing CA Breast: A comprehensive Workshop: Linker as a Case
      12 March 8, 2024 Women's Day Rally
      13 June 21, 2024 LMS: Introduction to Module 3.9 for Beginners
      14 June 26, 2024 Clinical Audit Presentation
      15 July 24, 2024 Mentorship Program
      16 October 22, 2024 (AETCOM) Interactive Session Workshop
      17 March 3-5, 2025 2nd BCME Workshop
      18 May 21-22, 2025 Network of Student Leaders (NEST) Workshop
      19 7th–8th Aug 2025 CISP-III Workshop
      20 22nd–23rd Dec 2025 Network of Student Leaders (NEST) Workshop
      21 Feb 17th 2026 Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Workshop
      22 17th–19th June 2026 3rd BCME Workshop

      Upcoming Events

      Activities conducted

      1. Workshop on Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in 2024 for 1 day.
      2. Workshop on Curriculum Implementation Support Program (CISP) 2024 for 2 days (subject to approval from Nodal Centre and NMC) (30 participants from SMCW).
      3. Workshop on Basic Course in Medical Education (BCME) in 2024 for 3 days (subject to approval from Nodal Centre and NMC) (30 participants from SMCW).
      4. Workshop on Attitude, Ethics, and Communication (AETCOM) in 2024 for 1 day.
      5. Skills training Module for 1 day.

      Key Focus Areas

      Key focus areas

      • Coordinating all activities of MEU & Curriculum committee.
      • Faculty development through seminars, workshops, conferences, and CME programs.
      • Curriculum development for undergraduate and postgraduate programs in alignment with the latest NMC guidelines.
      • Updating and implementing the latest NMC guidelines for UG/PG examinations.
      • Coordinating and facilitating all NMC activities.
      • Supervising and coordinating overall educational and research development at the Institute.
      • Actively contributing to effective curricular development, implementation, and monitoring, including faculty capacity-building activities, in accordance with the National Medical Commission to effectively implement Competency-Based Medical Education.
      • Introducing advanced research programs in medical and health professional education.
      • Updating current trends in medical education by conducting faculty development programs in the form of CMEs, conferences, workshops, and NCHPE.

      Activities planned in future:

      • To be able to conduct NCHPE in the next 2 years.
      • To be able to start some publishing activity journal in a year or newsletter every month of SMCW/SUHRC and/or FOMHS.
      • To develop SMCW as a centre of excellence in medical education.
      • Training of the MEU faculty for advance faculty development courses.
      • To coordinate in conducting the Foundation Course for first-year MBBS.
      • To conduct Faculty development workshops/program (1 per month).
      • To conduct Faculty Basic Course in Medical Education Workshop in Medical Education Technologies (at least 1 per year).
      • To conduct Sensitization Programme on AETCOM Module (Attitude, Ethics, and Communication Module) (at least 1 per year).
      • To conduct Curriculum Implementation Support Programme-III (CISP-III) (1 every year).
      • Workshop on Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE).