curriculum of CMFM in India for undergraduates. In this road to developing the subject and reaching consensus on the competencies and clinical skills required by undergraduate students in the discipline of CMFM, this research project was undertaken.

In the past, Delphi technique has been used in various disciplines for obtaining consensus in the development of competencies, skills, and portfolio. Considering the limitations of resources, this method is a boon for a researcher of medical education to develop or refine the competencies and skills required in a discipline according to the changing needs of the time. In this study, the Delphi technique was adopted to develop a consensus list with inputs from experts of different specialities. This is an initiation of agreement over the competencies, but it needs further refinementJuly 2013 to June 2014 and has undergone various phases. In the first phase, preliminary list of competencies and skills was prepared through literature review\[[@ref7][@ref8][@ref9]\] and views from experts of community medicine from all six new AIIMS at a meeting on curriculum development of CMFM at AIIMS, Bhubaneswar. In the second phase, the questionnaire was pilot tested among volunteers whose wisdom in subject is unquestionable. The third phase was the heart of the study comprising two Delphi rounds and was decided well in advance to limit the Delphi rounds in this investigation to avoid the dropouts that could be well expected if more rounds were conducted which marks the real sense of consensus. The participants were contacted through e-mail and their informed consent was taken. The participants were