The Nationwide Medical Fee has reintroduced ‘sodomy and lesbianism’ as unnatural sexual offences within the forensic drugs and toxicology curriculum for undergraduate medical college students.
It has additionally introduced again matters such because the hymen and its sort, and its medico-legal significance moreover defining virginity and defloration, legitimacy and its medico-legal significance.
These topics have been executed away with in 2022 in accordance with a Madras Excessive Court docket directive.
The revised curriculum beneath forensic drugs and toxicology additionally contains “Describe authorized competencies together with Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS), Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA)” moreover “Safety of Youngsters from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO), Civil and Prison Instances, Inquest (Police Inquest and Justice of the Peace’s Inquest), cognisable and Non-cognisable offences”.
It talks about discussing sexual perversions, fetishism, transvestism, voyeurism, sadism, necrophagia, masochism, exhibitionism, frotteurism, and necrophilia. Nonetheless, distinctions between consensual intercourse between queer people have been eliminated, a supply stated.
The amended curriculum has executed away with the seven-hour coaching on incapacity. On the finish of teaching-learning in forensic drugs and toxicology, the scholar ought to have the ability to perceive the medico-legal framework of medical apply, codes of conduct, medical ethics, skilled misconduct and medical negligence, conducting medico-legal examination and documentation of varied medico-legal circumstances and perceive newest Acts and legal guidelines associated to medical skilled together with associated court docket judgements, the NMC stated in its doc.
“It was time to have a relook in any respect features of the assorted elements within the present rules and tips, and adapt them to the altering demography, socio-economic context, perceptions, values, developments in medical training and expectations of stakeholders,” the NMC stated in its Competency-Based mostly Medical Training Curriculum (CBME) Pointers, 2024.
The result’s an outcome-driven curriculum which conforms to international developments. Emphasis is laid on alignment and integration of topics each horizontally and vertically whereas respecting the strengths and necessity of subject-based instruction and evaluation, it stated.
The undergraduate medical training programme is designed with the objective of making an ‘Indian Medical Graduate’ (IMG) possessing requisite data, abilities, attitudes, values and responsiveness, in order that he or she could operate appropriately and successfully as a doctor of first contact of the neighborhood whereas being globally related.
“To realize this, the next nationwide and institutional targets for the learner of the Indian Medical Graduate coaching program are hereby prescribed. “The primary contact doctor must be skilful to carry out duties of main care doctor and have requisite abilities for promotive, preventative, rehabilitative, palliative care and referral providers,” the doc stated.
