Fresh enrolments for Advance Course in Medical Education (ACME) Program put on hold: NMC
New Delhi: Through a recent notice, the National Medical Commission has informed that fresh enrolments for Advance Course in Medical Education (ACME) Program have been put on hold.
In its notice, the NMC said, "The fresh enrolments for Advance Course in Medical Education (ACME) Program have been put on hold, till a new academic cell/committee is constituted to look into the details of conduct of ACME, as proposed by NMC."
In keeping up with the multi-tier approach to strengthen the quality of medical education in India, one year program of Advance Course in Medical Education (ACME) was introduced in 2014.
The Advance Course in Medical Education is a project-based course of one-year duration and has two contact sessions of 5 days and 3 days with one overlapping day when two batches meet and interact. The program consists of four phases; first onsite phase of five days, second phase of online learning modules for six months, third onsite phase of three days and fourth phase of online learning modules for six months. ACME is for 30% of all faculty in a medical institute, spread over various specialties. Rules and norms for enrollment and conduct of the program were laid down and eight batches of ~ 1200 faculty of colleges have successfully completed the course.
| Batch A 5 days onsite | Batch A 6 months online for discussion on 4 educational themes. Also have some content delivered electronically. Project work | Batch A 3 days onsite Present their project Encourage networking and mentoring partnerships Batch B5 days onsite | Batch A and B 6 months online. Batch A will also act as Observers for at least 2 workshops and provide standardized feedback on planning and execution |
In 2014, the Faculty Development Program (FDP) was expanded by starting the conduct of Advance Course in Medical Education (ACME) with the purpose of developing educational practitioners who can lead educational changes in their institutions to make medical education responsive to the health needs of the society. Advance Course in Medical Education was initiated by upgrading selected Regional Centres, who had required trained faculty and infrastructure, to Nodal Centres. Medical colleges were allocated to these Nodal Centres for training in ACME.
Ten Nodal Centres were recognized by MCI and are located at the following institutions:
- Christian Medical College, Ludhiana
- Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, Wardha
- Smt. NHL Municipal College, Ahmedabad
- Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute, Chennai
- St. John's Medical College, Bangalore
- Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital, Mumbai
- Government Medical College, Kottayam
- Pramukhswami Medical College, Karamsad
- Christian Medical College, Vellore
- Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum
To view the official NMC notice click here:
https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/20221021001834-188747.pdf
