MGM Medical College, Vashi, Navi Mumbai

Medical Education Unit

Medical Education Unit (MEU)

Introduction

Medical Education Unit (MEU) MGM Medical College, Vashi, Navi Mumbai is established and allocated to Nodal centre, Seth GS & KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai in November 2023. Faculty development programmes (FDPs), boost medical teachers to cultivate their knowledge and skills in desired areas such as pedagogy, research, motivation, and administration. MEU focuses on establishing systematic faculty development programs. The team helps the faculties to accomplish the role as knowledgeable and effective educators, administrators, researchers, mentors, and support clinicians to gain capability in behavioural and communication skills.

Goal

To establish a standardized and structured approach of faculty development program (FDP) to improve the quality of medical training in accordance with educational principles and practices.

Objectives

Training faculty members of the Medical Education Unit (MEU) and Curriculum Committee (CC) at the Nodal Centre.
Faculty development through seminars, workshops, and conferences.
Curriculum development as per the latest National Medical Commission (NMC) guidelines.
Sensitizing teachers to modern educational technologies for teaching and assessment methods.
Encouraging and training clinicians to acquire competency in communication and behavioural skills.
Promoting quality research in medical education using modern information and research methodology tools.

Dr. Dipak Patil
Professor Community Medicine
MEU Coordinator
MGM Medical College, Vashi, Navi Mumbai

Dr. Sandhya Gujar
Dean and Professor in Anaesthesia
MEU Chairman
MGM Medical College, Vashi, Navi Mumbai

Composition of MEU

Sr No.	Name	Designation
	Dr. Sandhya Gujar	Chairman
	Dr. Dipak Patil Advance Course in Medical Education (ACME) Professor Community Medicine	MEU Coordinator
	Dr. Debapriya Das Choudhury Advance Course in Medical Education (ACME) Professor Microbiology	MEU Secretary
	Dr. Kavita More FAIMER FELLOW Professor & HOD Biochemistry	Member
	Dr. Sabrina Mhapankar Professor & HOD OBGY	Member
	Dr. Yashoda Kattmani Advance Course in Medical Education (ACME) Professor & HOD Physiology	Member
	Dr. Rekha Mane Professor & HOD Anatomy	Member
	Dr. Sujata Gaikwad Associate Professor Physiology	Member
	Dr. Khilchand Dilip Bhangale Associate Professor Surgery	Member

The MEU is planning to regularly conduct Faculty Development Programmes, NMC recognized training workshops, CMEs, seminars etc for Faculties and Students.
These activities are conducted by expert MEU Faculties who are trained at MCI Regional centre- Seth G.S. Medical College & KEM Hospital, Parel.

Faculties who are FAIMER Fellows:

Sr No.	Name	Designation	Year
	Dr. Kavita More	MEU Member	2019-2022

Faculties who have done Advance Course in Medical Education (ACME):

Sr No.	Name	Designation
	Dr. Sandhya Gujar	Chairman
	Dr. Dipak Patil	Co-cordinator
	Dr. Debapriya Das Choudhury	Secretary
	Dr. Yashoda Kattmani	Member

Infrastructure

The Medical Education Unit (MEU) has:

Spacious AC conference room

Interactive board / Smart board

Good audio visual system

Facilities like Laptop, LCD projector, printer, scanner

High speed internet facility

Video camera

Flip board, Soft board

Cupboards and display cabinets for books

Enriched Library- 22 Books on Medical Education

National and International Journals in Medical Education namely :

Clinical Teacher
BMC Medical education

Activities of Medical Education Unit

NMC recognised workshops under the aegis of GSMC-KEMH Regional centre

“Basic course in Medical Education Technology”

“Revised Workshop in MET & AT- COM Module”

“Curriculum Implementation Support Programme”

Faculty Development Programmes

Workshops in Competency based Medical Education (CBME)

Mechanics of question paper setting,

Writing Research Projects,

Training Programs in E-learning

Integrated teaching

One Minute preceptor

Microteaching

OSCE, PBL

For Post Graduate students

Research Methodology workshops

PG Induction program

Workshop on Resident as teacher

National Conference-on “Quality Benchmarks in Health Science Education” conducted on 17th & 18th February 2018.
International workshop- Workshop on Global Perspectives on Medical Education and its Relevance to India conducted on 6th January 2015.
Guest Lectures by eminent National & International speakers
Research projects
Publications

Future plans:

To become an MCI Regional centre
To organize more MET workshops, conferences at State and National levels eg. NCHPE conference
Becoming a member of AMEE (Association for Medical Education in Europe) & Indian AHPE
To promote and encourage Faculties to do FAIMER Fellowship, ACME , PhD in HPE
To formulate thematic research in Medical Education