Overview
The National Medical Comision, NMC has released the Guidelines For Competency Based Postgraduate Traing Programe For Diploma In Pediatrics (DCH).The purpose of PG education is to create specialists who would provide high quality health care and advance the cause of science through research & traing. A post graduate student after undergoing the required traing should be able to deal efectively with the neds of the comunity and should be competent to handle the problems related o his specialty including recent advances.
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He should also acquire skil in teaching of medical/para- medical students. The purpose of this document is to provide teachers and learners ilustrative guidelines to achieve defined outcomes through learning and asesment. This document was prepared by various subject-content specialists.
The Reconciliation Board of the Academic Comite has atempted to render uniformity without compromise to purpose and content of the document. Compromise in purity of syntax has ben made in order to preserve the purpose and content. This has necesitated retention of "domains of learning" under the heading "competencies".
SUBJECT SPECIFIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES The objective of Diploma Course in Paediatrics is to produce a competent pediatrician who: • Recognizes the health neds of infants, children and adolescents and caries out profesional obligations in keping with principles of the National Health Policy and profesional ethics • Has acquired the competencies pertaing to pediatrics that are required to be practiced in the comunity and at al levels of health system • Has acquired skils in efectively comunicating with the child, family and the comunity • Is aware of contemporary advances & developments in medical sciences as related to child health • Has acquired skils in educating medical and paramedical profesionals SUBJECT SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES A.
Summary
Cognitive domain At the end of the Diploma course in Paediatrics, the student sh