CUCMS departs from the traditional training of both doctors and pharmacists in few ways.

Firstly, we believe seriously in producing practitioners who are life long learners. Towards this goal, the curriculum is very much student centered with minimum didactic teaching being done. Not only is the widely accepted problem based approach (PBL) being utilized, innovations like student-centered teambased-learning (SCTL), Affective Domain training and assessment, structured peer group discussion and presentation, self and peer assessment, and on line learning are introduced right from the first year of study.

Secondly, we are very focused on the end product. By producing health professional with passion to care, students are also exposed very early on to the real world practice which they are to encounter upon completing their training through the innovative Clinical and Health Exposure and Training (CHET) module from the first semester of the course itself. We believe strongly in training practitioners who will work efficiently as a members of a health care teams. Most of the academic activities are centred around student group dynamics with a tutor closely monitoring their progress. This will inculcate team work and team spirit, respect for peers and superiors, humility, criticality and innovativeness among these students-qualities essential for practitioners of the future.

Thirdly, there are aspects of the core curriculum which are ‘the first'. This includes the teaching of social medicine, disaster and relief medicine and aspects of military medicine incorporating both aviation and marine medicine. Such instruction at the undergraduate level should create a group of practitioners who are not only competent with their core business of caring for the infirm, but also compassionate, empathetic and are agents of change in the society contributing towards social enlightenment. All in all, the curriculum is designed to train practitioners of the future, ready to use the latest technology, at the same time maintaining human aspect of medicine in line with our motto “Nurturing the Passion to Care”.