Conference programme
Dynamic Landscape of Health Professional Education in Competency Based Education
NCHPE 2025 Pre-Conferecnce Workshops (PCWs)
Program Schedule 6th Nov 2025 (Thursday) Resoruce faculty names on PCW page Venue: Health Science Block CMCL
Morning 9am to 12.45pm | Afternoon 1.30-5pm |
PCW 1: Driving change: leadership strategies for advancing competency-based education in the health professions | PCW 9: Digitally Enabled CBE for undergraduates through Dynamic Industry–Academia Collaboration |
PCW 2: Developing & implementing Entrustable Professional Activities in CBE | PCW 10: Empowering Students: Strategies for Self-Directed Learning in CBE |
PCW 3: Hear, Empathise, Articulate and Lead: A creative communication skills workshop for tomorrow’s caregivers | PCW 11: Developing & implementing mentorship programs in the changing landscape of HPE in CBE |
PCW 4: Strengthening HPE Research for a Dynamic CBE Landscape in India: Competency in Scholarship | PCW 12: Demystifying Scholarship: Simple Ways to Share What You Already Do |
PCW 5: Designing simulated patient programs & using simulation-based strategies in CBE | PCW 13: Empowering HPE with Artificial Intelligence: Assessment and Content Creation |
PCW 6: Creating content/program on LMS (e.g. MOODLE) for teaching, learning and assessment | PCW 14: Beyond Training: Leveraging Translational Simulation to Solve Real-World Healthcare Challenges |
PCW7: Building trust in the Educational Environment | PCW 15: Fostering Critical Reasoning & Thinking Skills in Health Professions Education |
PCW 8: Using Cine-meducation to develop communication and professional competencies among learners | PCW 16: Play to Learn: Driving Competence Through Gamified HPE |
5.00 pm onwards
Poster Presentations (Exam Hall, 4th floor) Reena Jairus CON Ludhiana, Ajay Kumar CMCL; Tapasya Dhar CMCL, Lydia Solomon CMCL, Anmol P Shrestha Nepal; Sonia Singh DMC Ludhiana, Neena Bhatti CMCL
and
AHPE-EC Meeting (Central skill lab, unit 3)


Main Conference Program
Program Schedule Day 1 7th November 2025 (Friday) Program will keep on updating-pls check here for latest version
Time | Topic | chairperson |
8.00-9.00 am Registration | Cafe Corner-Meet the experts 8.00-8.50am (pre-signup after registration)
| Coordinators
Bharti Uppal, MMMCH Solan Aparna Garg, Convener, NC, Jaipur Christina George, CMC Ludhiana
Deepshikha Kamra, CMC Ludhiana |
9.00- 9.30 am | Keynote Address Lyuba Konopasek, Senior VP Intealth, Executive Director, FAIMER | Chairpersons William Bhatti, Director CMCL, Abi M Thomas, CDC Ludhiana |
9.30- 10.00 am | Quality/accreditation in CBE-NMC rep
| Chairpersons Jeyaraj Pandian Principal CMC S Muhammad Salim Khan, JKMC, GMC Srinagar PMC |
10.00-10.30 am | Learners in the Dynamic Landscape of CBE UG/PG Students from HPE/Hackathon winners | Discussion Pilots Purnima Barua, PMC Assam; Richa G Thaman SGRD Amritsar, Ansh Sachdev MBBS std |
10.30 -11.00 am | TEA BREAK | |
11 -11.45 am | Symposium-I Wedding bells-Tying Competency Jyotsna Sriranga, Director & CEO, Urja- CT, Bengaluru, Elsa Devi, Director, MAHE-FIILIPE, Manipal, Payal Bansal, MUHS, Nashik Randa R Mabrouk Program Director FRI ASU Sudha Ramalingam, Co Director, PSG FRI Coimbatore | Navigator Poonam Loomba, UCMS, New Delhi |
11.45 -12.05 pm
12.05-12.15 pm | AHPE Presidents: Transition of leadership-Gratitude & anticipation
5 year vision plan for AHPE | AHPE Coordinator-Anjali Jain, CMCL
AHPE |
12.15 – 1 pm | AHPE Oration Thomas V Chacko | Oration Sanyojaks Payal Bansal, President, AHPE Jyotsna Sriranga, Secretary, AHPE Dinesh Badyal, Organizing Secretary, NCHPE |
LUNCH BREAK (1.00 pm – 1.45 pm) IST (QuizEd Prelim 30 min) Cureus 1-1.15 PM | ||
1.45 -2.30 pm | Impact Summit CBE Horizons: Navigating impact on HPE .Vijendra Chauhan, Director General, Academics, SRHU Dehradun Yagna Shukla, Chairperson NCAHP Neerja Sood, Director-CON, IGNOU | Momentum Maker Monika Sharma, CMC Ludhiana |
2.30-3.10 pm Parallel session 2.35-3.10 pm Parallel session | Penal Discussion-1 National Education Policy & HPE Dr Rajiv Sood, VC, BFUHS, Faridkot; Achal Gulati, VC MGUMST Jaipur; Vivek Saoji VC, BVP-Pune, Dr Jytoi Nath Modi, AIIMS Bhopal Symposium-2 Glocalisation & Capacity Enhancement in CBE Avinash Supe, Mumbai; Vinod Pallath; Ciraj Ali, NUST; Praveen Iyer, GSMC FRI Mumbai; Diptakanti Mukhopadhyay, Kolkata
| Anchor Mala Bhalla, GMC Chandigarh
Anchor Purvi Bhagat BJMC Ahmedabad
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3.10– 3.30 pm | TEA BREAK | |
3.30- 4.30 pm Parallel session
3.30- 4.20 pm Parallel session | Poster Presentation Kailash Charokar Bhopal, Anu Sharma, DMC Ludhiana, Anushi Mahajan CDC Ludhiana, Tanvir Siddhu, AIMSR Bathinda, Rohit Mathews CDC Ludhiana, Preet CDC Ludhiana, Osheen Bhandari COP Ludhiana Symposium-3 CBE in Allied Health Profession Anchor-Gaurang Baxi, MUHS, Nashik Sandeep Singh Principal COP-CMCL; Trivedi, Principal CTU Chandigarh, Harjit CON-CMCL, LPU Jalandhar | |
4.30-5.30 pm | General Body Meeting | |
6-6.45 pm | Inaugural Function | |
7. 00 pm onwards | Cultural Evening and Banquet– All delegates & Faculty In Parallel: Alumni get together -FACE, FRI, ACME, RC/NC |

- Day 2 8th November 2025 (Saturday)
Time |
Topic |
Coordinator |
8.30-9.25 am |
Poster Presentations |
Ritu Jain CDC Ludhiana; Daljit Kaur, AIIMS, Rishikesh; Maria Thomas CMCL; Ajay Kumar CMCL; Deepshikha Kamra CMCL; Parag Chavda, Baroda; Sandeep Kular, AIMSR, Bathinda, Anumeha Bhagat GMC Chandigarh |
Cafe Corner-Meet the experts8.30-9.20am
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Coordinators Monika Sharma CMC Ludhiana
Anjali Jain CMC Ludhiana Ajay Kumar CMC Ludhiana Pamela Jeyeraj CMC Ludhiana |
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9.30-10.15 am |
Panel discussion-2 Recalibrating Curricula: Innovations in CBE Praveen Singh, NMC NC PMC Karamsad, Sita Thakur, Principal IGMC Shimla, Akhilesh Pathak, Dean AIIMS Bathinda; Pramod Goyal Principal, AIMSR, Bathinda; Dr Hem Lata, DMC, Ludhiana |
Navigator Anil Kapoor, PMC, Bhopal |
10.15-11 am |
Sympsoium-3 Industry-academia collaboration Our progress with training, educators play book & GME vision: David Elsevier National FDP centres: Dinesh Badyal Program Director CMCL FAIMER/FRI: Henal Shah, GSMC FRI Mumbai Med College: Sucheta Dandekar Era University Lucknow |
Navigator Anjali Jain, CMC, Ludhiana |
11 -11.30 am |
TEA BREAK |
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11.30-11.55 am |
Keynote address: Dynamic Landscape of HPE In CBE Vedprakash Mishra, Pro-Chancellor & Chief Advisor, DMIHER Wardha, Maharashtra |
Chairperson Daljit Singh, Ludhiana Jugesh Chattwal, Ludhiana Anupama Mahajan, Principal SGRD, Amritsar
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11.55–12.20pm |
Keynote address: Shifting paradigms: CBE in HPE Rashmi Vyas VP Intealth, Senior Director FAIMER
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Chairpersons Bhavneet Bharti, Principal BRAIMS Mohali |
12.20-12.55 pm |
Panel Discussion-3 Challenges & Solutions for CBE: Institute, University and Faculty level Rajeev Sharma COE BFUHS, Faridkot; Margaret SFX, NMC NC CMC Vellore; Santosh Salagre, GSMC FRI Mumbai; Kavitarati Dharwadkar, Convener NMC Biochem gr, SAIMS, Indore,
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Navigator Upreet Dhaliwal, UCMS, New Delhi |
12.55 – 1 pm |
NCHPE 2026 announcement |
Chandrika Rao, Bangaluru |
LUNCH BREAK (1.00 -1.45 pm) IST Laerdal 1.00-1.15 pm | ||
1.45- 2.30 pm |
Sympsoium-4 Competency Curve in PG curriculum: Are We Walking the Talk Sandeep Dogra, GMC, Jammu; Purnima Barua, PMC Assam; Suman Singh NMC NC PMC Karamsad, Rakesh Dixit NMC NC KGMU Lucknow, Anju Gupta PGI Chandigarh, |
Navigator Sanjiv Lewin NC Bengaluru |
2.30 – 3.10 pm |
Experts Speak Immersive Learning in CBE Dhruv Ghosh CMC Ludhiana, Nageshwar Rao, Rajahmundry, Mrunal Ketkar BVMC Pune, Latha R, SRMC, Chennai |
Navigator Shivani Jaswal, GMC Chandigarh |
3.15-4.00pm |
QuizEd Final Quiz team-Chetna, Parag, Ashwin, Lavanya, Girish |
Quiz Master Chetna Desai, BJMC Ahmedabad |
4- 4.30pm |
Valedictory, AHPE Best Published Paper Award, Best Poster awards |
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4.30pm |
HIGH TEA |