It has also brought back topics such as the hymen and its type, and its medico-legal importance besides defining virginity and defloration, legitimacy and its medico-legal importance.
The National Medical Commission has
reintroduced 'sodomy and lesbianism' as unnatural sexual offences in the
forensic medicine and toxicology curriculum for undergraduate medical students.
It has also brought back topics such as
the hymen and its type, and its medico-legal importance besides defining
virginity and defloration, legitimacy and its medico-legal importance.
These subjects were done away with in 2022
in accordance with a Madras High Court directive.
The revised curriculum under forensic
medicine and toxicology also includes "Describe legal competencies
including Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita
(BNS), Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA)" besides "Protection of
Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO), Civil and Criminal Cases, Inquest
(Police Inquest and Magistrate's Inquest), cognisable and Non-cognisable
offences".
It talks about discussing sexual
perversions, fetishism, transvestism, voyeurism, sadism, necrophagia, masochism,
exhibitionism, frotteurism, and necrophilia. However, distinctions between
consensual sex between queer individuals have been removed, a source said.
The amended curriculum has done away with
the seven-hour training on disability. At the end of teaching-learning in
forensic medicine and toxicology, the student should be able to understand the
medico-legal framework of medical practice, codes of conduct, medical ethics,
professional misconduct and medical negligence, conducting medico-legal
examination and documentation of various medico-legal cases and understand
latest Acts and laws related to medical professional including related court
judgements, the NMC said in its document.
"It was time to have a relook at all
aspects of the various components in the existing regulations and guidelines,
and adapt them to the changing demography, socio-economic context, perceptions,
values, advancements in medical education and expectations of
stakeholders," the NMC said in its Competency-Based Medical Education Curriculum
(CBME) Guidelines, 2024.
The result is an outcome-driven curriculum
which conforms to global trends. Emphasis is laid on alignment and integration
of subjects both horizontally and vertically while respecting the strengths and
necessity of subject-based instruction and assessment, it said.
The undergraduate medical education
programme is designed with the goal of creating an "Indian Medical
Graduate" (IMG) possessing requisite knowledge, skills, attitudes, values
and responsiveness, so that she or he may function appropriately and
effectively as a physician of first contact of the community while being
globally relevant.
"To achieve this, the following
national and institutional goals for the learner of the Indian Medical Graduate
training program are hereby prescribed.
"The first contact physician needs to
be skilful to perform duties of primary care physician and have requisite
skills for promotive, preventative, rehabilitative, palliative care and
referral services," the document said.
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