NMC Releases Crucial Clarification on CBME Guidelines

NMC Releases Crucial Clarification on CBME Guidelines

Last Updated Oct - 17 - 2024, 04:43 PM | Source : NDTV | Visitors : 34

The National Medical Commission (NMC) updates the CBME Guidelines 2024 with new competencies in psychiatry, physiology, pediatrics, and clinical history-taking,
NMC Releases Crucial Clarification on CBME Guidelines


The National Medical Commission (NMC) has issued a notification including new clarifications to the Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) Guidelines, 2024. The official notice issued by the NMC states, “In light of the observations made by the Hon’ble Court of Madras in WPC No. 7284 of 2021 titled S Sushma & Anr Vs The Commissioner of Police & Ors., following Corrigendum/ addendum has been incorporated in the existing CBME Guideline, 2024 published on 12.09.2024:”

New additions to the CBME guidelines:

Psychiatry

Section 9 of Psychiatry (Page 112, Volume II) is now titled “Psychosexual Disorders and Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression.”
Competency PS 9.2 has been deleted.

Physiology

The competency related to sex determination and differentiation (Volume I, Page 83) has been updated. Competency PY 9.1 now reads: “Explain sex determination, sex differentiation, and their physiological alterations, and discuss the effects of the removal of gonads on physiological functions.”

Pediatrics

Competency PE 6.4 (Volume II, Page 90) has been revised to reflect inclusivity: “Describe adolescent sexuality, diversity in sexual orientation, and gender identity.”

Clinical history-taking

In reference to the recommendation-“Clinical History-taking needs to include approaches that elicit information on gender, sexual orientation and behavior in a non-judgmental manner”

NMC has emphasized on the need to direct the concerned universities to introduce changes as per the modifications introduced in the CBME guidelines.

Also, the word (heterosexual) has not been used in the CBME document. As far as the inclusion of medico-legal knowledge on homosexuality, bisexuality, gender incongruence, and Dysphoria in medical education, it is stated that the said competencies are well taught at the school level and do not fall under the purview of the MBBS curriculum.

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