A suggested model for internal assessment as per MCI Guidelines on Graduate Medical Education, 1997. Medical Council of India.

The recent guidelines of Medical Council of India (MCI) on Graduate Medical Education(l) have placed a lot of emphasis on internal assessment. In fact, internal assessment has become extremely important in view of the fact that a student who fails to clear internal assessment will be debarred from appearing in the final examinations. It is a bold step, which was long overdue but it has brought tremendous responsibility on the teachers. There is no acceptable model of internal assessment in our country or abroad. Each institution, in fact each department within an institution, is following its own method. Even the MCI has stopped short of providing any operational recommendations on the issue, in effect transferring the onus to the teachers concerned. It is imperative that a uniform and acceptable model of internal assessment is developed. With this back-