IGNOU MMEL 302 Practical for PGDMCH: Reproductive Health Log Book, Marks and Exam

IGNOU MMEL 302 Practical in PGDMCH: the obstetrics and gynaecology skill course

IGNOU MMEL 302 Practical is the Reproductive Health Practical of the PGDMCH programme, a 6-credit course that turns the MME-302 theory of obstetrics and gynaecology into skills you practise on real patients at three levels of posting.

The prospectus lists MMEL-302 as Course 5 of six in PGDMCH, the practical partner of MME-302 Reproductive Health, which stands for the Obstetrics and Gynaecology discipline. The programme admits MBBS doctors, runs in English, and the Medical Council of India treats it as a Continuing Medical Education programme. Three printed blocks support the course: a Practical Manual, a Check List Manual and a Log-Book.

Across practical courses, the practical side worries learners more than the theory papers, and people who clear their term-end theory without trouble can still get stuck here. MMEL-302 is a course of its own in PGDMCH, with 6 credits and its own internal and term-end marks.

Many learners realise late in the session that their programme has a practical component. In PGDMCH the prospectus table prints MMEL-301, MMEL-302 and MMEL-303 directly under the three theory courses, each worth 6 credits.

How the 70-mark IGNOU MMEL 302 Practical exam is built

The term-end part of IGNOU MMEL 302 Practical has four components, set out in Appendix VI of the 2024 PGDMCH Programme Guide. The guide says the practical term-end examination is usually held once a year, in December and January, and that you usually sit it at your programme study centre. The pass mark is 35 of 70.

Four parts of the 70-mark term-end practical

Unit 10 of Block 1, on commonly used instruments, ends by saying it will also help you in your practical examination, and instruments sit in the viva list above.

Many learners are unsure whether a viva applies to their course. For MMEL-302 the guide settles it: a 10-minute viva for each candidate, worth 15 of the 70 term-end marks, centred on normal delivery, family planning counselling and procedures, instruments, the dummy doll and the fetal skull.

A viva often gets treated as a formality, though it usually carries real weight, and a tidy record helps little when the candidate cannot explain the aim, method or findings of the cases behind it; learners who did the work themselves tend to speak with the most confidence. In MMEL-302 the term-end practical has a one-hour maternity long case that ends in discussion, and a separate 10-minute viva.

180 hours in three places, and the minimum patients for each skill

Appendix II of the 2024 guide splits the 180 hours of IGNOU MMEL 302 Practical into 60 at the Programme Study Centre (PSC), 90 at the Skill Development Centre (SDC) and 30 at your work place (WP). At the PSC, MMEL-302 gets two days in each of the two spells, four days in all. Section 3 of the log book then sets a floor for each skill at each place.

Practical days run on fixed dates, often as full days and sometimes far from home, and a learner who misses the schedule can end up waiting for the next cycle. For MMEL-302 the obstetrics posting at the PSC is two days in each spell, and the prospectus says the Learner Support Centres provide the schedule for practical sessions.

Learners often copy the routine of a friend at another centre and then find their own centre works differently. MMEL-302 prints its own counts in the log book, so the numbers in the table above are the ones to track.

Learners in jobs often ask whether work at their own workplace counts. The MMEL-302 log book does have a work place column with its own minimums, but it also says there is no provision for filling the case record proforma at the work place; those patients go in as one-line log entries.

Practical status, result and three other MMEL-302 questions

What the three MMEL 302 Reproductive Health Practical blocks contain

Block 1 of IGNOU MMEL 302 Practical, the Practical Manual (March 2019), has ten units: communication with the woman and history taking; examination of the woman; infection prevention; normal labour; common procedures during labour; abnormal delivery; management of shock in obstetrics; minor procedures; method specific counselling for contraception; and commonly used instruments. Unit 6 calls outlet forceps and vacuum delivery optional for you, with confidence-building exposure if you already have EmOC or BeMOC training.

Block 2, the Check List Manual (April 2019), regroups the same skills under ten heads, from skills of communication to insertion of Cu-T. Each head gives the information or steps, then a check list for self-evaluation with four blank case columns: you follow the steps in order and tick each square as you go. Block 3 is the Log-Book (September 2019), covered in the next section.

A common muddle: the manual shows one format, a counsellor suggests another, an older student’s copy shows a third, and the learner cannot tell which one counts. For MMEL-302 the answer is printed: the case record proformas inside Block 3 are the format, and its instructions say which are filled at the PSC and which at the SDC.

Practical reports usually follow a fixed sequence, and a missing section costs marks. The MMEL-302 antenatal case record has its own printed order, from complaints and the history of the present pregnancy through general, systemic and obstetric examination to the plan, investigations and contraception counselling.

Where a practical rests on charts or tests, we often see wrong scoring and conclusions that the readings do not support. Unit 4 of the MMEL-302 Practical Manual answers this for the partograph: compare each completed form with the answer key and, after any mistake, repeat on a new blank form until you plot it correctly without the key.

Writing the MMEL 302 log book: full records against one-line entries

The log book calls itself a compulsory component of IGNOU MMEL 302 Practical. It holds nine varieties of activity; for some you write a full case record proforma, and for the rest of your patients you write a single line on the log page with date, hospital number, age, diagnosis, place and two signatures. Each case, demonstration or seminar at the PSC or SDC is countersigned by the counsellor who supervised it.

Case records the log book asks you to write in full

• Antenatal: one at the PSC and one at the SDC, plus one marked for internal evaluation at the SDC.
• Labour: one at the PSC and two at the SDC, plus one for internal evaluation at the SDC; other labour cases get a log line and one of the five blank partograms.
• Obstetrical operation: one record for episiotomy and perineal tear and one for outlet forceps or vacuum, at the PSC or SDC depending on what you actually perform.
• Family planning counselling: one record each for condom, oral contraceptives, IUCD and permanent method, as patients are available.
• IUCD insertion: one at the PSC and one at the SDC; a tubectomy or vasectomy you witness goes on the log pages.
• Obstetrical emergency: one record for case management and one for emergency procedures for PPH; you also see at least three or four of the nine listed conditions, from PIH and eclampsia to puerperal sepsis, and log each as a one-line entry.
• Laboratory procedures, case discussions and seminars: log entries, with the case you present at the PSC seminar written up.

Section 2 of the log book is a posting table, with dates and counsellor names for each PSC spell and each SDC visit. It exists so that a completion certificate can be signed at the end of your postings, which you need to appear in the term-end practical.

Learners often write the same descriptive line day after day, when the evaluator looks for a link between what was done and a concept from the course. The MMEL-302 log book models that link in its tips for case discussion, which take PIH through risk factors, signs of severity and the prevention of eclampsia.

A log filled in during a single late sitting gives itself away through repeated wording, entries dated on holidays and no visible progress across the pages. Each line of the MMEL-302 log pages asks for a date and a place (PSC, SDC or WP) beside the student’s and the counsellor’s signatures.

An unsigned counsellor certificate is a gap we see in practical records. MMEL-302 needs a countersignature for each supervised activity at the PSC or SDC, and a completion certificate signed when the postings end.

Thirty internal marks, two counsellors, one pass line

The guide gives IGNOU MMEL 302 Practical an internal weightage of 15 percent at the LSC and 15 percent at the SDC, each awarded by the counsellors there. Its PSC monitoring proforma groups the skills into antenatal care, intranatal and postnatal care, obstetrical operations, emergency case management, case presentation, family planning counselling and procedures, early pregnancy evacuation and lab procedures; the SDC proforma lists labour and insertion of Copper-T in place of intranatal and postnatal care and case presentation.

Passing the internal assessment is a prerequisite for the term-end practical, and the guide needs at least 15 marks for that pass. For the diploma it asks for a minimum score of 50 percent in both components of each course; its sentence says five courses, although PGDMCH has six.

Most learners are working, and while theory counselling is usually optional, practical sessions generally are not; missing them can bar the practical exam and cost a full session. For MMEL-302 the first requisite in the guide is attending both practical spells at the LSC and completing the related activities at the SDC.

Writing the record is where marks slip most, and it is also the part easiest to fix. For MMEL-302 the SDC counsellors check log books as part of skill development, and half of the internal marks are theirs to give.

Reading for the theory paper that pairs with MMEL-302

MMEL-302 itself has no product: it is done on patients and recorded in your own log book under your counsellors. What the shelf holds for this pair is reference reading for MME-302, the Reproductive Health theory paper.

Your own patients, your own entries

The Course Introduction calls the log book the record that documents your learning process, and the case records are filled at the PSC and SDC under the counsellors who saw the patients with you. We do not sell, prepare or fill MMEL-302 log books, case records or partograms, and no ready-made record exists that could stand in for yours.

Ready-made practical files are passed around online, and some learners submit one after swapping in their own name and enrolment number; matching records from a single centre stand out, and the candidate is exposed at the viva. Each MMEL-302 record carries a hospital number and the signature of a counsellor at the PSC or SDC where the patient was seen.

Some learners build an analysis on assumed data in place of data they gathered. The MMEL-302 version of that is a partogram or case record made from imagined readings, while the log book asks for the hospital number, the place and the counsellor’s countersignature.

Some learners submit AI-written work as it is, which is one more reason the same wording keeps turning up. Each MMEL-302 case record asks for the patient’s hospital number and is filled at the PSC or SDC under the counsellor who saw the case.

Packing for the MMEL-302 exam day at your LSC

Night-before checklist for the LSC

• The log book itself: the guide asks you to carry it to the term-end practical, and it comes back to you afterwards.
• Countersignatures on each PSC and SDC entry, and the posting table filled with dates and counsellor names.
• The SDC completion certificate (Appendix V of the guide), signed by the SDC counsellor for the LSC Coordinator.
• Your IGNOU student ID card, which the prospectus requires at the examination centre.
• A last pass through Block 2 for normal delivery and Cu-T insertion, Unit 10 of Block 1 for instruments, and one partograph plotted without the key.

Attendance proof that is missing or not countersigned is a gap we see in practical records. Section 2 of the MMEL-302 log book is a posting table for each PSC spell and each SDC visit, with dates and the counsellor’s name, kept so a completion certificate can be signed at the end.

Wrong enrolment or centre details on a front page cause avoidable trouble. The MMEL-302 log book cover asks for three things: your name, enrolment number and address.

Learners who finish well tend to begin in good time, check the rules at their own centre, date each entry, get signatures as each activity ends and know each record well enough to talk through it. In MMEL-302 that last habit is tested in the long case discussion and the viva.

Three requisites before the IGNOU MMEL 302 Practical exam, and the fee slab

The guide lists three requisites for the IGNOU MMEL 302 Practical term-end examination: attend both practical spells at the LSC and complete the related SDC activities; fill the online practical term-end form in time; and pass the internal assessment.

On the fee, the July 2026 prospectus puts practical examinations above 4 credits at Rs 500, paid with the term-end examination form and not refundable. MMEL-302 has 6 credits. The guide still prints an older theory figure of Rs 250 per paper, where the prospectus now prints Rs 200 per theory course. SED’s notice for the December 2026 TEE, listed on IGNOU’s announcements page on 18 September 2026, set 30 November 2026 as the last date for project, internship and practical course fees for the December 2026 term-end examination, paid only through the Samarth portal. For programme questions the prospectus names Dr. Biplab Jamatia as Programme Coordinator, 011-29572851.

Many learners confuse the Rs 300 and Rs 500 practical amounts. MMEL-302 carries 6 credits, so the prospectus places it in the above-4-credit slab of Rs 500.

Our records put it at 70 to 80 percent: that share of learners becomes active only in the final month before a date falls due. For a PGDMCH doctor in the December 2026 cycle, the date SED set for practical course fees is 30 November 2026.

Many learners hold back in the belief that a last date will be pushed to a second, later one. For the MMEL-302 practical course fee, SED’s notice listed in September 2026 says no fee will be accepted after its deadline, and this page makes no prediction about any extension.

Most of the IGNOU MMEL 302 Practical is settled in the log book and at the SDC well before the exam day; the long case, short case, spots and viva then test what those pages record.

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