1Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, obgexpert@gmail.com
2Professor, Department of Surgery, Eras Lucknow Medical College & Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, umankgupta@gmail.com
3Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Eras Lucknow Medical College & Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, umankgupta@gmail.com
4Professor, Department of Critical Care Medicine, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
*Corresponding author email id: icuexpert@gmail.com
Online published on 29 November, 2018.
As per Medical Council of India, ‘Internship is a phase of training when a new graduate is expected to acquire skills under supervision, so that he/she may become capable of functioning independently’. These large number of MBBS graduates cater medical service to great part of general population. Often, new graduates go through this period without a clear aim. We conducted 14-day long internship orientation and core competency training programme for fresh graduates before they start their 1-year internship to familiarise them with their clinical tasks and their role in the community so as to facilitate smooth transition from being a medical graduate to being a responsible professional.
The aim of this article is to improve skills of practising MBBS graduate.
The objective of this article is to assess knowledge of interns about basic clinical skills, to train and introduce them to basic, clinical procedure and to assess the effect of training on knowledge and skills acquired by the interns.
Interns were invited to participate in 14-day long internship orientation and core competency training programme conducted by faculty members at Eras Lucknow Medical College & Hospital. Programme consisted of pretest, various modules on 14 skills to be taught which included interactive lecture and video on skill, demonstration of skill, demonstration on simulator-students performed the skills-faculty assessed by Direct Observation of Procedural Skill sand post-test. The participants provided feedback using a structured questionnaire and during informal group discussions.
Out of total 82 interns, 69 participated on day 1 and completed on day 14. The post-test score (median 35; range12-40) represented a significant improvement over the pretest score (median20, range8-32). Faculty and student feedback revealed that programme was successful in achieving its objectives.
Such structured orientation and core competency training programme before internship offers a practical means of making the transition of new graduates from students to practising physician of first contact smoother and is very helpful in improving knowledge of basic clinical skills.
DOPS-Direct Observation of Procedural Skills, MCI-Medical Council of India, Internship Orientation, Core competenct training Programme
