Title

Early clinical exposure for MBBS students: Perception and educational impact in a CBME setting

Authors

Anupinder Thind¹, Sachpreet Singh², Navita Aggarwal³, Sonia Kochhar¹ & Pravin Pisudde^4,*

Affiliation

¹Department of Physiology, AIIMS, Bathinda, Punjab, India; ²Department of Physiology, Government Medical College and Rajindra Hospital, Patiala, Punjab, India; ³Department of Anatomy, AIIMS, Bathinda, Punjab, India; ⁴Department of Community and Family Medicine, AIIMS, Bathinda, Punjab, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Anupinder Thind - E-mail: anuthind01@gmail.com

Sachpreet Singh - E-mail: sachpreetsingh07860@gmail.com

Navita Aggarwal - E-mail: navita22a@gmail.com

Sonia Kochhar - E-mail: kochhar.sonia.dr@gmail.com

Pravin Pisudde - E-mail: drpravinpisudde@gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received July 1, 2026; Revised July 31, 2026; Accepted July 31, 2026, Published July 31, 2026
 

Abstract

Knowledge gain and clinical correlation after routine didactic teaching in first year MBBS often remains limited, so early clinical exposure is used as a CBME strategy to bridge the gap. Early Clinical Exposure is a key part of Competency-Based Medical Education in first year MBBS teaching. Hence, we assessed the perception, utility and educational impact of Early Clinical Exposure in 102 first year medical students. Post-test scores improved significantly after sessions on myocardial infarction and electrocardiogram (p=0.001). Thus, data shows the most students reported better understanding, retention, motivation and clinical correlation after the sessions.

Keywords

Clinical clerkship; education, medical, undergraduate; curriculum; electrocardiography; myocardial infarction

Citation

Thind et al. Bioinformation 22(7): 3872-3876 (2026)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.