Top Medical Colleges in Pune | SMCW Pune

Vision & Mission

To be a leading Centre of Excellence in Medical Education, recognized for advancing health profession education across all faculties of medical and health sciences under Symbiosis International University.

Vision

Mission

To promote excellence in faculty development, quality medical education, professionalism, and the implementation of Competency-Based Medical Education.
To conduct 'train the trainer' programs and workshops for capacity building among health professional educators.

Objectives:

To develop leadership in Medical Education.
To actively contribute to effective curricular development, implementation, and monitoring, including faculty capacity-building activities in accordance with the National Medical Commission to effectively implement Competency-Based Medical Education.
To oversee and coordinate educational activities conducted at SMCW.
To conduct training activities for the capacity building of faculty members in educational science and technology.
To introduce advanced research programs in medical and health professional education.
To develop a robust e-learning system for teaching, learning, and assessment.
To provide mentoring and support in developing the simulation centre and skills lab.
To stay updated with current trends in medical education by conducting faculty development programs such as CMEs, conferences, workshops, and NCHPE.
To provide a platform for inter-institutional and international collaboration in developing new educational techniques and models.
To offer courses in medical education to support faculty in pursuing advanced training within the Medical Education Unit (MEU).

Faculty Information

Name of the Faculty	Designation
Lt. Col. (Dr.) T. Vijaya Sagar (Retd)	Chairman, Dean (SMCW & SUHRC)
Dr. Priti Shah	MEU Coordinator, Professor, Department of General Surgery, Resource Faculty
Resource Faculty
Dr. Ashwini Patil	MEU-Co-Convener; Professor and HOD, Department of Physiology
Dr. Kalyani Mahajan	Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Dr. Shraddha Yadav	Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Dr. Bharati Sharma	Professor, Department of Orthopedics
Dr. Anjali Kher	Deputy Dean- Research & Professor and Head, Department of Paediatrics
Dr. Pankaj Bansode	Professor and Head, Department of General Surgery
Brig. (Dr.) N. Ramakrishnan (Retd)	Professor and Head; Department of ENT
Dr. Shruti Vimal	Professor, Department of Pathology
Dr. Ajit Naik	Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry

Key Focus Areas

Key focus areas

Coordinating all activities of MEU & Curriculum committee.
Faculty development through seminars, workshops, conferences, and CME programs.
Curriculum development for undergraduate and postgraduate programs in alignment with the latest NMC guidelines.
Updating and implementing the latest NMC guidelines for UG/PG examinations.
Coordinating and facilitating all NMC activities.
Supervising and coordinating overall educational and research development at the Institute.
Actively contributing to effective curricular development, implementation, and monitoring, including faculty capacity-building activities, in accordance with the National Medical Commission to effectively implement Competency-Based Medical Education.
Introducing advanced research programs in medical and health professional education.
Updating current trends in medical education by conducting faculty development programs in the form of CMEs, conferences, workshops, and NCHPE.

Activities planned in future:

To be able to conduct NCHPE in the next 2 years.
To be able to start some publishing activity journal in a year or newsletter every month of SMCW/SUHRC and/or FOMHS.
To develop SMCW as a centre of excellence in medical education.
Training of the MEU faculty for advance faculty development courses.
To coordinate in conducting the Foundation Course for first-year MBBS.
To conduct Faculty development workshops/program (1 per month).
To conduct Faculty Basic Course in Medical Education Workshop in Medical Education Technologies (at least 1 per year).
To conduct Sensitization Programme on AETCOM Module (Attitude, Ethics, and Communication Module) (at least 1 per year).
To conduct Curriculum Implementation Support Programme-III (CISP-III) (1 every year).
Workshop on Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE).

Activities Conducted

Activities conducted

Sr. No.	Name of the FDP	Details for the Workshop	No. of Participants
1	CISP 2 -(Curriculum Implementation Support Program-2)	Dates- 27-28 August 2020, Conducted under the aegis of RC, AFMC Pune	29
2	Workshop on E-learning and LMS	8-11 December 2020	43
3	Global Trends in Competency Based Medical Education	28 June 2021	120
4	RBCW- Revised Basic Course Workshop In Medical Education	17-19 March 2021, Conducted under the aegis of RC, AFMC Pune	30
5	Refresher Workshop on Learning Management System	8-9 April 2021	51
6	OSPE, OSCE Designing workshop	26 April 2021	90
7	Digital Medical Illustrations	29 April 2021	130
8	Multiple choice questions, facts and Fantasies	23 June 2021	71
9	Item analysis- Validation and Banking of MCQs	30 June 2021	73
10	Journal club Activity	14 July 2021	15
11	Journal club Activity	18 August 2021	21
12	Journal club Activity	15 September 2021	23
13	RBCW- 2nd Revised Basic Course Workshop In Medical Education	27-29 September 2021, Conducted under the aegis of RC, AFMC Pune	29
14	Journal club Activity	27 October 2021	23
15	PBL on PBL	11th January 2021	59
16	Journal club Activity	16th February 2021	15
17	FDP on Recording of video lectures	5th April 2022	33
18	Journal club Activity	20th April 2022	10
19	Student Enrichment Activity - A medical career in the UK: an outlook, approach & early preparation	14 May 2022	300
20	Hands-on refresher faculty development workshop for LMS	04 May & 18 May 2022	47
21	Hands-on refresher faculty development workshop for LMS	27 Sept & 28 Sept. 2022	25
22	Hands-on refresher faculty development workshop for LMS	12 Jan & 13 Jan 2023	36
23	Session on: CBME	12 May 2023	23
24	Session on: Electives	12 May 2023	23
25	Session on: AITO	14 May 2023	25
26	Journal club Activity	14 July 2023	12
27	Journal club Activity	11 August 2023	11
28	Understanding and Managing CA Breast: A Comprehensive Workshop	4th September 2024	150
29	1st BCME Basic Course in Medical Education	13th to 15th September 2023	30
30	Assess Learn: A Workshop on Integrated Learning & Assessment	28 November 2023	18
31	FDP: Blueprinting in Assessment	12 March 2024	33

Activities conducted

Workshop on Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in 2024 for 1 day.
Workshop on Curriculum Implementation Support Program (CISP) 2024 for 2 days (subject to approval from Nodal Centre and NMC) (30 participants from SMCW).
Workshop on Basic Course in Medical Education (BCME) in 2024 for 3 days (subject to approval from Nodal Centre and NMC) (30 participants from SMCW).
Workshop on Attitude, Ethics, and Communication (AETCOM) in 2024 for 1 day.
Skills training Module for 1 day.