Indian Journal of Forensic and Community Medicine 2021;8(1):58–62 Content available at: https://www.ipinnovative.com/open-access-journals Indian Journal of Forensic and Community Medicine Journal homepage: https://www.ijfcm.org/ Short Communication One minute paper: The reflective way to teach and learn in medical education Bimal Kumar Sahoo 1 , Manish Taywade 1, * 1 Dept. of Community Medicine and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India ARTICLE INFO Article history: Received 17-01-2021 Accepted 25-01-2021 Available online 10-04-2021 Keywords: One minute paper Class room assessment Faculty effectiveness Students learning ABSTRACT One minute Paper is the quick and simple classroom assessment tool. It is benefited to both students and teacher to understand the must know learning points. This tool was applied to the undergraduate students to assess the understanding on the content of lecture as per learning objective, their feedback and perception on one minute paper. At the end of the session, one minute given to answer -What are the most important things you learned today from lecture? What question (s) do you still have in your mind? and Is there anything you did not understand? More than 90 percent were responded for one minute paper. Sixty eight percent of the students appreciated that it was done nicely and fairly done. Thirty two of the students perceived the technique of one minute paper utilization as learner centred and 11.6% as thinking centred. Few apparent responses that were obtained were the liberty to ask questions (15.9%), better understanding of the topic (26.1%) and mutually beneficial (15.9%). One minute paper is an inexpensive, instant, insightful and informative classroom assessment tool. Involvement of students in the teaching learning process with active participation were the learning outcome. The writing activity in the form of one minute paper focused the students to give their thoughts, perspective and pinpoint their questions before leaving the class. © This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. 1. Introduction Medical Education has been reformed in the form of Competency Based Medical Education (CBME). The whole concern revolves around the student centric learning approach. 1 CBME is based on the domain including medical knowledge, clinical skills enhancement and attitude development among the medical graduates. Competency- based medical education (CBME) framework focuses on desired performance characteristic in health care professionals. 2,3 Competency of students are evolved over a period of time and it is outcome based. 4 The assessments are in the alignment of the outcome. Assessment is remain the most vital in the learning. 5 The conventional assessment methods fail to assess the higher skills. Major characteristics * Corresponding author. E-mail address: cmfm_manish@aiimsbhubaneswar.edu.in (M. Taywade). of CBME is student centric and learning the various domain cognitive, psychomotor and affective domain with their alignment to assessments. Formative classroom assessment is the backbone of any medical curriculum and need of the hour. The aim of all medical educators to improve the understanding of the topic taken during classroom lectures. To understand and have enough insight of this assessment tools and techniques required which gives information on the learning of medical students. Additionally to generate an opportunity for students to ask, discuss and resolve their queries on the topic which taught. During Covid 19 pandemic situation, on virtual/online mode of teaching is preferable to avoid the unnecessary exposure. Classroom assessment techniques can help the faculty to close the communicating gap due to online teaching learning. Faculty used class assessment technique in one of the virtual theory lecture class during COVID pandemic 19. The one-minute paper is a vital and important tool to engage students and simple to collect written feedback https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijfcm.2021.012 2394-6768/© 2021 Innovative Publication, All rights reserved. 58