Abstract of the symposium on ANCIPS 2022 Relevance Of Psychiatry in CBME curriculum For Undergraduate Students

Competency-Based Medical Education focuses on prespecified individual competencies and by using appropriate methods of assessment of patient care and performance based education outcome ‘rather than knowledge based examinations. Medical Council of India [MCI] implemented CBME in all medical colleges in India in August 2019. Psychiatry has been assigned a specific subject code and the competencies related to psychiatry are divided into 19 topics. The symposium aims at discussing various aspects of the new curriculum and the relevance of Psychiatry in undergraduate teaching. 1.Why choose Psychiatry-Prof Roy Abraham Kallivayalil; 2.UG teaching in Psychiatry- Importance of teaching sexuality and management of sexual disorders – Prof TSS Rao; 3.UG teaching in psychiatry-Future perspectives-Prof Varghese P Punnoose 4,CBME Curriculum for UG medical students- Dr Joice Geo.