Understanding implementation before defining support.
A national academic consultation mapping how communication competency is taught, practised, assessed, supported and tracked across undergraduate medical education. The current consultation has received 152 responses representing 147 unique medical institutions across 31 States and Union Territories.
Why this consultation?
Communication is a core competency in undergraduate medical education, but implementation can differ across colleges in protected teaching time, repeated practice, faculty capacity, assessment methods, feedback, remediation and longitudinal documentation.
The consultation is designed to map these differences, identify institutional, faculty and learner barriers, and understand the support medical colleges consider necessary for more consistent implementation.
Teaching
Where, when and how communication competency is taught.
Practice
Opportunities for repeated, scenario-based and clinically relevant practice.
Assessment & Feedback
How performance is observed, assessed, fed back and remediated.
Faculty & Systems
Faculty readiness, tracking, implementation barriers and support needs.
Listen → synthesize → deliberate → recommend.
Institutional responses
Capture teaching, assessment, faculty readiness, barriers and support needs from medical colleges.
Aggregate synthesis
Identify recurring patterns, variation and priority implementation questions without ranking institutions.
National Advisory Session
Interim findings were discussed with educators, institutional leaders, students and implementation partners in New Delhi on 20 September 2026.
Blueprint & implementation
From Intent to Implementation was released on 20 September 2026, establishing the framework for expert workstreams, institutional pilots and collaborative evaluation.
National Advisory Session & Blueprint release
DoctorsAI Global Summit 2026
The National Advisory Session brought the consultation findings into a multidisciplinary discussion on longitudinal competency development, faculty and MEU support, assessment, multilingual communication, research and the appropriate role of technology.
The session culminated in the release of From Intent to Implementation: A Blueprint for Elevating Clinical Communication Competency in Undergraduate Medical Education in India.
Institutional participation
One coordinated response is invited from each medical college. Appropriate respondents include the Dean or Principal, Medical Education Unit coordinator, faculty responsible for communication training, or a nominated faculty member directly involved in undergraduate medical education.
Submit an institutional response