A shift towards competency based medical education in India: Challenges and way ahead

The Competency based Medical Education (CBME) had been introduced by Medical Council of India as an adaptive measure in 2019 curriculum to provide much relief to the stagnant medical education system. The advent of novel corona pandemic had played a devastating role in disrupting the planned system and had put few question marks on our preparedness and pointed the lacunae in our system. The authors had tried to bring about the structural changes and practical challenges which we shall be facing from a medical teacher point of view. The required process is rather than being myopic in approach and focusing on a jump start mechanism, we must take a few steps to ponder and plan it in a systemic way since the outcomes are not short term. The outcome measures could have significant impact on future health care delivery system.