MBBS Coaching for international licensing exams

                              

If the textbooks could teach...

Publishers would be doctors

Text Books are full of information and professors are lecturing to the best of their abilities but; do all students get it? The answer is NO. How about our newly found love, “apps”, flooding our minds with information at our fingertips, turning everyone into a “virtual scholar” (in theory)? What about the mountains of information available on Wikipedia, Google,ask.com, about.com, MSN, Bing, Yahoo, dictionaries, encyclopedias and other web search engines? Then there are White papers, renowned universities’ information pages and blog posts. It’s an ocean deep and sky high treasure of knowledge at our disposal, yet students cannot navigate their way through passing exams and remain somewhat lost.

Well, there is a reason for all this. A simple explanation is embedded in history. We know that mankind has always needed coaching and leadership. For Noah to build an ark, Ram and Buddha to teach love for humanity, Moses to bring back the tablets, Jesus to deliver the Good News and Mohammad to legislate the Law of Moses and Good News of Jesus. They were great coaches of morality. The era of scientific revelation started in the later centuries through people like Avicenna, Algebra, Newton and Einstein whose coaching affects us today and will continue to, tomorrow.

Coaching is an essential ingredient of leadership. Without coaching, teams do not win and students do not succeed. Lead My World (LMW) has a philosophy of developing coaching skills amongst the leadership, thereby coaching students to achieve their academic and career goals. Lead My World targets specific academic concepts, collects data, and after critical analysis, develops coaching strategies. Lead My World meticulously addresses the subject matters and their content in depth to present to students in a manner that they can relate to. LMW presents multi-dimensional renderings of human science concepts with intricate details. Our coaching is nurturing in style and that makes learning easy and very effective.

We learnt that most MBBS graduates from China generally fail the licensing exams in their respective countries. Our critical analysis determined the reasons for failure but we were not interested in stopping there. Our goal was to develop a sustainable strategy that delivers solutions and we did. We developed coaching programs for MBBS students to make them understand the depth, the logic, the rational, and the relation between perception and reality. Our interactive live lecture classes make students participate and own what they learn, which results in better retention and clarity of concepts. Students who have been coached by Lead My World are self-confident and perform at an equal level with M.D.s from the USA, Canada, and other countries.

Lead My World’s coaching program for MBBS has the following features

·         MCI,PMD,BMDC,PLAB, USMLE, MRCP,AMC and HPCSA licensing exam preparations

·         Students prefer to watch Video Lectures so we developed video lectures on international licensing examinations.

·         Lead My World in collaboration with their partners produced a series of state of the art animated coaching videos on human anatomy. We developed high yield content books, MCQs, & case studies of core concepts   

·         Lead My World’s business and academic development wing has created preparatory classes & proven exam strategy seminars and techniques for passing the exams.

·         For those procrastinators and last minute planners, Lead My World even developed a fast track, crash course with live on demand lectures and revision on weak points.

These features have resulted in the following benefits to Lead My World’s students

·         A comprehensive study & revision of MBBS subjects was a refresher for some and surprisingly comprehendible for others studying for examinations for the first time. Step by step study in a non-judgmental and non-performance oriented environment proved to be more palatable and productive for enrolled students.

·         This coaching is done by expert doctors and educators with strategic teaching methodology.

·         The curriculum specifically deals with and emphasizes on passing licensing exams of respective countries while re-enforcing their CK and CS for future applications.

·         This coaching program gives Lead My World’s   students a competitive edge over those who do not take coaching. It is a confidence builder and ultimately gives the graduates great positioning for residencies and job placements.

LMW coaching Strategy 

MBBS 1st Year: - Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry

MBBS 2nd Year: -Pathology, Pharmacology

MBBS 3rd Year: - Microbiology, Ophthalmology, ENT

MBBS 4th Year: - Internal Medicine, Surgery

MBBS 5th Year: - Obstetrics, Gynecology, Pediatrics

MBBS 6th Year: - Orthopedics, Dermatology, Psychiatry,

Radiology, Anesthesia, Forensic medicine

          

·         For information visit www.Leadmyworld.com or send your questions to: Najam@Leadmyworld.com

USMLE and MBBS Degree: Practice as a Medical Doctor in the USA

MBBS & USMLE

Lead My World has now instituted USMLE preparatory classes with a MBBS degree program at the International School of Capital Medical University Beijing, Peoples Republic of China. It is important to talk about what USMLE stands for, not from the standpoint of the abbreviation but the VALUE of it. It basically brings MBBS (A 6 year undergraduate clinical medicine degree, Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery) graduates to work in the United States, shoulder to shoulder with MD degree holding doctors if they pass all three steps of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) with distinction. Here are some informative facts about the USMLE;

United States Medical Licensing Examination is a qualifying test for practicing Medical Doctors in the United States. This examination is endorsed and sponsored by the FSMB - Federation of State Medical Board and the NBME - National Board of Medical Examiners

 USMLE is a platform to evaluate and assess the ability to comprehend the principles and methodologies of diagnoses/treatment concepts. The test is comprised of three major steps   

Step 1

An examination to assess a candidate’s clinical knowledge and understanding of;

• ·         Scientific concepts in basic medicine
• ·         Principles and methodology or mechanisms of body health, disease, and different modes and options of treatment and therapy.
• ·          Fundamental and scientific knowledge of competent practice of medicine
• ·         Comprehensive knowledge of System and Processes

Step 2

·         In this examination, a candidate is tested on his/her application of knowledge and skills as it relates to the clinical science’s understanding and its supervised application for patient care.

• ·         Knowledge and skills of human health protection, health promotion, and disease prevention.
• ·         Basic rules of clinical sciences and basic patient-centered skills and medical practice.

Step 2 CK- Clinical Knowledge

Clinical Knowledge is based on an integrated material outline that organizes clinical science along two dimensions: Medical Doctor’s practice and disease categories.

• ·         This one day exam is also divided into blocks.
• ·         The test format can vary with each block.
• ·         Each block will have a maximum of 45 items which will be displayed in the beginning of the test.
• ·         Total items of the blocks will not exceed 355
• ·         A total of one hour is allotted for each block

Step 2 CS- Clinical Skills

This is one of the most important components of the USMLE. In this segment, examinees are tested on their clinical skills ranging from bedside manners, gathering data from the patients, physical examination, to communication skills of conveying facts to the patients and colleagues alike. The examiners watch each step of the candidate with very critical and minuet observation.

Step 3

In this final step of examination, candidates are assessed on their ability to apply their CK and CS of biomedical and clinical science.

·         Candidates are observed for the unsupervised practice of medicine.

·         The emphasis of this test is on patient management in an ambulatory setting. 

·         Passing of this exam can lead a candidate to acquiring a license to practice medicine without supervision.

·         The test items are case studies and real patient situations designed by Medical Experts, State Board Members, Medical Academic experts, and nonacademic experts.

·         Evaluation of tasks, patient’s issues and the severity of conditions, their solutions.

·         Patient centered case studies of a clinical encounter+assessment and physician’s judgment.

·         Since the applied science and clinical fundamentals have been observed in step 1 and 2, the prognoses justification is assessed in step 3 as it relates to its rational and justification.

Examination format:

·         It is comprised of 8 hour daily testing for 2 days.

·         First day an examine has to answer 336 Multiple Choice Items (MCI)

·         These MCIs are divided into 7 blocks with 48 items  in each block 

·         Abstract or Pharmaceutical associated items may differ in the number of items per block.

·         2^nd day of testing is comprised of 144 MCI divided into 4 Blocks of 36 items. Total time to complete the tasks is 3 hours for these blocks.

·         There are 12 case simulations with a 4 hour completion time.

National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME)

NBME was founded in 1915. NBME is an independent, non-profit organization, serving through its high-quality assessments of healthcare professionals.

USMLE was developed by NBME and is managed by it. The purpose of licensing exams is to test the core competencies of an individual to practice Medicine in the USA. It is important to note that NBME and FSMG co-sponsor the United State Medical Licensing Exams in collaboration with Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG). NBME also sponsor PLAS, Post Licensure Assessment System for evaluation of already licensed Medical Doctors. This extends a new common standard between American and International Graduate Doctors.  

Certification as NBME Diplomat

The requirements for NBME Certification as a Diploma are as follow;

·         Successful completion of USMLE's 3 steps or a combination of parts & steps.

·         MD degree from an accredited medical school of LCME, Liaison Committee on Medical Education.

·         Accreditation Counsel on Graduate Medical Education, ACGME’s accredited Internship in Canada

I will be delighted to answer any further questions about USMLE or the MBBS degree program at CCMU. Please contact me at Najam@Leadmyworld.com

 Najam Hasan