NMC's Revised MBBS Curriculum Faces Criticism

Key Points

• 1The National Medical Commission (NMC) reissued the Competency-Based Medical Education Curriculum (CBME-2024) guidelines for MBBS students.
• 2Activists criticized the revised version for lacking key terms like 'dignity' and 'transgender' in the 466-word document.
• 3Satendra Singh noted that the revised curriculum doesn't explicitly mention disability competencies, which were mandatory in the 2019 curriculum.
• 4Psychiatry continues to refer to 'gender identity disorders,' and physiology describes intersex variations as 'abnormalities'.
• 5Rights groups demand the reintroduction of mandatory hours on disability competencies and provisions of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, and the Transgender Persons Protection Act, 2019.