title: Planning an objective and need based curriculum: the logistics with reference to the undergraduate medical education in biochemistry.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The medical education is recently being transformed into several domains in order to adapt to the need and the value based academics which is required for the quality doctors who serve the community. Presently, the biochemistry curricula for the graduate students of medicine have been questioned by as many experts, because of their multiple lacunae. In this review, we would like to highlight the scenario which is related to the existing biochemistry curricula for graduate medical students, which have been followed in several medical schools and universities and we also hope to share our ideas for implementing objective and pragmatic curricula. Evidence based research, wherein the articles which are related to innovative teaching-learning tools are collected and the pros and cons which are related to the different methods analyzed in biochemistry point of view.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Rapid changes in the content of the curriculum may not be required, but a gradual introduction of the novel approach and the methods of teaching biochemistry can be adopted into the curriculum.
authors: Professor & Head, Department of Biochemistry.
authors: Ramesh
authors: R
authors: Ramasamy
authors: Niranjan
authors: N
authors: Gopal
authors: A R
authors: AR
authors: Srinivasan
authors: Sathish Babu
authors: SB
authors: Murugaiyan
keywords: Biochemistry; Curriculum; Medical education
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