Framework to Incorporate Leadership Training in Competency-Based Undergraduate Curriculum for the Indian Medical Graduate

The new competency-based curriculum recognized the importance of leadership skills in physicians and has outlined competencies that would lead to attaining this goal. To prepare the Indian medical graduates as effective healthcare leader, there is no universal approach; it is desirable that the institutes organize the leadership competencies into an institutional framework and integrate these vertically and horizontally in their curriculum in a longitudinal manner. We describe the rationale for incorporating formal leadership training in the new competency-based undergraduate curriculum and propose a longitudinal curricular template utilizing a mixed/multi-modality approach to teach and apply leadership competencies.