Curriculum should suit modern medicine needs

IndiGlobal Bureau

Change is the only constant. Curriculum should be tweaked to suit the modern day needs, especially in the post pandemic era averred, Dr K Hari Prasad, President, Apollo Group of Hospitals. He was speaking on the sidelines of the recently concluded 2nd IndiGlobal Education Festival.

Dr Hari Prasad stated that Curriculum in medical education needs to be upgraded from time to time like any other education stream. Healthcare is also growing and improving and newer innovations and techniques and hence the curriculum has to be overhauled regularly to suit modern medicine, he felt.

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The most important factor in Healthcare and treatment is the ability of the doctor to deliver the best treatment to each patient and the skills that are required to do it appropriately, stressed Dr K Hari Prasad, President, Apollo Group of Hospitals. This is very crucial and needs focus as fresh medical graduates coming out of colleges are not adequately skilled although they have the knowledge, he said.

Replying to a query, Hari Prasad felt the pandemic has thrown open huge cracks that exist in the healthcare system not just in India but globally. For a good healthcare system to deliver the best treatments to patients when required, quality of healthcare personnel is equally important as the quantity of the healthcare personnel. And these people come out of medical colleges and schools. A huge gap was noticed during the peak of pandemic in many countries worldwide with fully developed countries also no exception. Patients had to wait for care and did not get it, Dr Hari Prasad pointed out.

“There is a huge opportunity to improve quantity and quality not just doctors but nurses, paramedics, technicians etc. There has to be a major transformative change in the way we look at medical education and the pandemic has reinforced this opinion across the country and this change will happen or later.”

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India handled pandemic better than most

Replying to a query, Dr Hari Prasad pointed out that even the most developed nations were not able to cope up the big caseload and even the infrastructure wasn’t enough during the peak of the pandemic. In contrast, India handled much better than so called developed countries. It also opened a huge window which shows us the need for improving not just infrastructure but also increasing the manpower in healthcare. We don’t have sufficient healthcare professionals to serve the population in normal circumstances leave alone challenging situations like the Covid pandemic when we need more manpower. Increasing the number of medical and nursing colleges and institutes to produce paramedics and technicians is a solution to address this, Dr Hari Prasad opined.

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