OBSERVERSHIP PROFORMA

Instructions to the participants of the Advance course of Medical Council of India

One of the assignments for completing the advance course is to observe a Basic Medical Education
workshop and provide your critical inputs to improve the quality of that workshop. This observation is
different from the task which is done by the designated MCI Observer and is primarily aimed at
improving your training and facilitation skills. The purpose of this report is to improve your training and
facilitation skills rather than on the administrative aspects of workshop organization.

You need to observe the basic workshop on any one of the 3 days at one of the following places:

1. Your own institution if any MCI approved workshop is being conducted during next 6 months or
after the 2nd contact session but before one year of the enrollment in advance course.

2. A nearby MCI Regional Center (RC). Please contact the convener of the RC as soon as possible to
find out about the possible dates. The conveners have already been informed about this activity.

3. A nearby MCI Nodal Center (NC) as per details given at point 2.

You will need to submit a signed and stamped certificate in the given format as a token of you having
observed the said workshop from the MCI observer if you use option 1 and the respective convener if
you use options 2 or 3. The report and the certificate have to be submitted to the Convener of the NC
where you are enrolled for the advance course. Please do not disseminate the report or discuss it with
the local organizers/RC/NC. In case more than one teacher from your college is enrolled for the advance
course, observing the same workshop is allowed but each participant should write a separate report.
Similar reports are likely to be rejected at the sole discretion of the convener of the NC.

You will need to make your own arrangements for travel and stay. You may approach your parent
college for assistance.

Please note that you are not required to take any sessions.

Avoid commenting on sessions which you have conducted if you are already a faculty for the
said workshop, e.g. in your own college or RC.

If you have been sent as an observer by the MCI for a basic course workshop by virtue of your
being a faculty as a RC/NC, then you cannot use that workshop for completing this assignment.

Please do not discuss or share the report with local faculty, coordinator or Dean of the college
where the workshop has been observed.

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 Medical Council of India
Report on a Basic Course Workshop as part of training in Advance Course in Medical Education

Name of the participant: ……………………………………………………….

Address ……………………………………………………………………………….

Department ………………………………………. College ……………………………………………..

Mobile No: -------------------------------------------- E-mail ID --------------------------------------

Batch of advance course for which enrolled ……………………………………………………………………

Name of the Nodal Center where enrolled ………………………………………………………………………..

Place (name of college & address) where the Basic Course Workshop(BCW)was observed
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Dates: From ……………………. To ………………………..

Name of MEU coordinator of college where BCW was conducted ---------------------------------------------

Name of the MCI Observer/ Convener …………………………………………………………………………..

OR

Name of the RC/NC and its convener ……………………………………………………………………………

(Attach the Certificate from the College where the BCW was conducted in the following format. It should
be on the letterhead of the concerned college/RC/NC)

Certificate

This is to certify that Dr. …………………………………………………………………………….

Observed the Basic Course Workshop on……………………. conducted from …………… to ………………….

At the Medical College………………………………………………………………./ RC …………………………………………/

NC ………………………………………… on a full-time basis. Dr. -------------------------- attended all the sessions on

…………....

Signatures…………………………………………….

Designation: MCI Observer/ RC Convener/NC Convener

Stamp

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 Report
(NB: The purpose of this report is to improve your training and facilitation skills rather than on the
administrative aspects of workshop organization. Please therefore focus on how training could be
improved. Please use narratives, rather than simple yes/no, as far as possible.

Please do not discuss your report with local faculty.)

Activity 1: Please list all the sessions in serial order and provide your inputs as asked.

S. Date Name of the session What was What could If you were to take this
No. done well* have been session, what additional input
better** will you require? *** How
would you develop these?

 *Please provide a description of why you consider an activity done well. Use as much space as required
in an additional sheet
 **Please be specific in listing what needs improvement. For example, simply saying ‘slides should be
better’ does not help the speaker as much as saying ‘the text on the slides needs to be reduced and
made larger’.
 ***Some examples: more theoretical knowledge, better facilitation skills, skills to improve interaction
with audience, skills of questioning or something similar.

Activity 2:

Please write a descriptive paragraph of not less than 250 words about a session, which you think was
conducted extremely well. Please provide inputs on why you consider this session as the best.

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Activity 3

Please write a descriptive paragraph of not less than 250 words about a session that needs
improvement. Please provide inputs on what was not well, how it interferes with participants’ learning
and how it can be rectified.

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Activity 4

If you were to organize this workshop, what things will you do differently and why? Please focus on your
learning issues and NOT on administrative issues (some examples: would use method A in place of
method B for this reason; will use a PowerPoint in the sessions to test understanding; will ask them to
write response to the following questions and so on). Identify at least 5 things.

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S. No. Things I would do differently and how will I do Reasons for doing it differently
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Signature………………………………….

Date……………………………………………