Understanding implementation before defining support.
A national academic consultation on how communication competency is taught, practiced, assessed, supported and tracked across undergraduate medical education.
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 consultation
Discuss interim findings with educators and institutions on September 20, 2026.
Recommendations & next steps
Translate institutional experience and evidence into practical academic recommendations and future priorities.
National consultation
New Delhi + online participation
Interim findings from institutional responses will be presented for structured discussion with participating institutions and medical education stakeholders. The September consultation is a milestone in an ongoing process, not the final national analysis.
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