Improving Medical Education

We all feel that undergraduate and postgraduate medical education is not as good as it should be. Most of us end up saying this is so, and leave it at that. Perhaps it cannot be helped. Perhaps we need to improve the curriculum. But perhaps it may be enough to implement the existing curriculum, with a few modifications. We could take it more seriously, and see that each one of us covers the syllabus on a predefined schedule, rather than leaving practical training to cases and operations as they come to the clinic and OT respectively. The student can be made to learn by starting weekly assessment and giving them credit points and a CGPA at the end of the semester like they do in IIT and similar institutes. It is probably not going to work because it means so much more effort for both the teachers and students, and it is very difficult to break old habits, especially if they are synonymous with comfort.