NEXT exam anxiety?

NEXT exam anxiety?

“To be honest, I’m a little scared,” admitted Murchana Ray, a fourth-year medical student at Assam Medical College in Dibrugarh. The path to medical school was difficult enough, but now I am faced with the prospect of having to take yet another exam to get a degree and graduate. 

 Ray may be one of the first students to write a National Exit Test (NEXT) in Medicine. A centralized, common exam for all graduate medical students determines whether they can declare, practice, or enroll in a graduate program of medicine as a qualified MBBS physician. NEXT will eventually replace the entrance exam for the graduate program. NEXT also provides legislation to replace the Indian Medical Council  (MCI) with the National Medical Commission (NMC). NMC was founded at the end of September and is currently responsible for the regulation of medical education. In addition to students and teachers, the report reports that the first final exam will take place in 2022, with the group added in 2017 appearing first. But there is still no certainty, which scares the students. “When are you ready?” Ray asked. There was also an opinion that the start date of the study should be announced at least a few years in advance.  

NEXT and its design 

 “NEXT 1 will be a computer-based exam that includes MCQ or multiple-choice questions,” said Shubham Anand, a senior MBBS student at GS Medical College and Hospital in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh. Anand was part of a strong student delegation of 30 people who attended a meeting with the former MCI Governor’s Association in February. This conference helped raise student awareness and make decisions about NEXT. “There were so many protests that we were confused, so the meeting was suddenly announced. Mukul Kumar, a senior MBBS student at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi, said: .. According to a plan shared with his students, the final exam will be divided into two parts. Students may appear in NEXT1 within 15 days or 1 month of completing their 4th-year final exam. Successful applicants will have an internship for the next 10 months. In the meantime, the result will be locked. Those who fail will have to repeat next year. After completing the 10-month internship, students will apply for NEXT2. This includes various components. Some are computer-based, and some are practice-oriented and verbal. “NEXT contains questions from both the lower and upper areas of knowledge … this is necessary to distinguish the right student from other students, and there are analytical questions.” Said Sandip Mukherjee, a professor at Burdwan Medical College in West Bengal. 

Students don’t know 

 “If they [NMC]  decided in 2017 that the group had to face the next exam,  ideally they should have been notified a couple of years ago,” Anand said. .. NEXT 1 has the potential to cover  all MBBS syllabuses for 5 years. “We don’t have time to prepare,” said Sripriya Xenian, a third-year MBBS student at the Hanga Roa Medical College and  Institute. The medical student was being bullied and felt Debarnab Dey, a senior at Assam’s Silchar Medical College. “Previously, students had time to prepare for the NEET PG [graduate school entrance exam]. But now, NEXT is for getting an MBBS degree and also for entrance exams for graduate programs, “he said. 

Reasons to continue 

 However, healthcare professionals believe that tests like NEXT are needed to standardize medical education. “If you have similar levels of education in Punjab, West Bengal, and Tamil Nadu, that’s okay, so this helps because education is streamlined in one direction,” says Mukherjee. The NEXT exam also addresses the issue of many students interrupting their internships or not attending practice because they are too busy to attend the NEET PG coaching course. “What usually happened during that one-year internship was that no one took the internship seriously, but because it was their main concern, he joined a coaching agency preparing for NEET PG. “The skills that doctors need to learn during their internship are lacking for today’s doctors,” Anand added. “You will be more confident,” said Rakesh Garg, associate professor of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, explaining how NEXT helps graduates. “They will be able to evaluate themselves before practicing.” Preparations began in 2019 to introduce transparency and equivalence into the curriculum and innovative education. 

New curriculum and next 

 The MBBS syllabus was revised last year by the former Indian Medical Council (MCI). A new curriculum entitled Competency-based UG Curriculum for  Indian Medical Graduates was launched in August 2019. “India has both private and public, with the exception of major medical colleges and many surrounding medical colleges, so some consistency is needed. Students at these peripheral medical schools need quality education. I didn’t get it and I didn’t pay the necessary attention, “Mukherjee added. He believes NEXT will bring standardization. “This was a terrible need, and  it should be praised when it is only introduced years after independence.” Mukherjee designed the current curriculum to teach problem-solving behavior. It is said that it has been done. “The new curriculum addresses the three most important aspects doctors need: first knowledge, second skill, and third psychomotor area,” he explained. Garg emphasized the importance of scrutiny  at both ends of medical education, arguing that “NEXT will raise the bar for education, training, and evaluation.” He added: “Even these standard tests, which were previously widespread, can eliminate prejudice today since conventional teaching is no longer widespread.”

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