Karachi: Vice Chancellor, Dow University of Health Sciences, Professor Masood Hameed Khan, has launched the Pakistan College of General Practitioners (PCGP), which plans to teach and train in areas unique to general practice with national and international perspectives to match the demand and meet international standards with training and assessment.
He was announced this during a press briefing on Saturday (today).
The duration of PCGP program is about two years. It shall also adopt various structured programs for our local needs and have collaborations and accreditations as per requirements. The PCGP shall run its affairs by a faculty, a council and various bodies, committees and will conduct examinations as per standard of medical profession. The PCGP shall offer diploma, membership or fellowship status to successful participants after assessment as per schedule.
He further said that the aim of the program is to prepare GP specialist from the existing medical practitioners for the social and sustainable change in the practice of general medicine uniformly at the national level and also meet the international standards. The program has been planned for the competency of general practitioners for Education leadership, Adult Learning, Instructions, Assessment, Curriculum, Program Evaluation and Education Research.
Dr. Muhammad Yayha from FRACGP said that Trained GPs will be able to meet all the objectives. The main objective of this program is to indentify academic areas of gaps which need further improvement to maintain evidenced-based change for follow up & adoption.
During research on international issues related to GP they can provide evidence-based solutions and suggest implementations. Besides scientific and practical advice to health and educational departments, with constructive feedback to the government, various organization and institutions on the basis of scientific evaluation.
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