The University of Health Sciences (UHS) has reviewed curricula for Level-IV MD and MS programs. It decided that facility council will begin monthly seminars from next month in 76 specialties.
The UHS hosted the joint meeting of the Medical Specialty Advisory Committees for Level-IV MD and MS programmes. UHS Vice Chancellor Prof Ahsan Waheed Rathore chaired the meeting.
A statement issued by the UHS stated that the specialists in endocrinology, electrophysiology, gastroenterology, paediatric dermatology attended the meeting. Specialists in paediatric infectious diseases, cardiac thoracic anaesthesia, paediatric critical care medicine, paediatric cardiology were also parts of the meeting. The UHS said the professionals in fields of paediatric endocrinology and diabetes, paediatric neurology, radiotherapy, paediatric urology, vitreoretinal ophthalmology, neonatology and neuro-spine surgery, among other disciplines also attended.
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Speaking on the occasion, Prof Rathore said the university had launched discipline-specific faculty councils. The councils, he said, were already working in the basic medical sciences. Starting October, Prof Rathore said, similar councils would begin monthly seminars in the clinical sciences as well.
The vice chancellor said the UHS will set up councils in 76 specialties. The councils will include faculty from the level of assistant professor to professor. “This initiative will not only contribute to capacity building of faculty but also directly benefit students,” he noted.
Prof Rathore stressed that the UHS had redesigned all programmes on an outcome-based model. “Research holds fundamental value and key importance along with writing research papers.” And because of this, a thesis must remain compulsory in Level-IV programmes, he added. Doctors, he said, pursuing super-specialties must demonstrate competence in research along with clinical expertise to set them apart.
The VC said more than 2,000 research projects had been completed under MD and MS programmes over the past three years. Some curricula for Level-IV programmes had already been finalised, he informed, while the remaining committees would submit theirs by October, after which induction into these programmes would begin.
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