Don't take our word for it. Verify it yourself.
The National Medical Commission's 2019 Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) curriculum is publicly available for download. Readers are encouraged to examine the curriculum themselves.
Search it for terms such as
Open the files, press Ctrl+F, and look for each one.
- Sexual literacy
- Sexual communication
- Pleasure
- Intimacy
- Relationship skills
- Sexual wellbeing
- Life skills
- Polyvagal Theory
- Nervous-system regulation
The question worth asking
The goal is not to criticise the curriculum, but to ask an important question:
If communication, relationships, identity, intimacy, sexual literacy and nervous-system regulation significantly influence sexual wellbeing, where are these competencies taught, assessed and recognised within formal healthcare education?
Download the official curriculum
Directly from the National Medical Commission: oldnmc.nmc.org.in
- Volume IUG Curriculum Volume I link to be added
- Volume IIUG Curriculum Volume II link to be added
- Volume IIIUG Curriculum Volume III link to be added
- AETCOMAETCOM Module (Attitude, Ethics & Communication) link to be added