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Achievements / Activities
The Department of Medical Education takes great pride in having established itself as a credible educational resource and trend-setter for medical education in the country. The summary of achievements made and types of activities undertaken since its inception are:
- Attained the status of National Teachers training Centre (NTTC) in 1979
- Designated as the WHO Collaborating Centre for Training in Research and Educational Development of Health Personnel in 1996 and is maintaining this prestigious position since then
- Contribution towards CPSP postgraduate programs:
- Developing curricula for Fellowship and Membership programs in new disciplines
- Review and updating curricula of existing programs, making them Competency-based
- Designing a system of monitoring for ensuring quality of the training programs
- Developing standards and processes for accrediting training institutions
- Instituting quality assurance procedures in the postgraduate examinations
- Replacement of Long Essays with Short Essay Questions and True/False MCQs with negative marking to Single-best MCQs and Extended Matching Questions (EMQs)
- Improving clinical examinations by first introduction of OSCE and then developing a more interactive modified version as Task Oriented Assessment of Clinical Skills (TOACS)
- Developing MCQ Bank
- Instituting post examination item analysis procedures
- Organizing and conducting workshops throughout the country for both trainees and supervisors of CPSP programs. The workshops for the trainees are:
- Computer and Internet
- Communication skills
- Research Methodology, Biostatistics and Dissertation Writing
- Primary Surgical Skills (for trainees in Surgery and Allied Disciplines)
- The workshops for the supervisors are:
- Educational Planning and Evaluation
- Assessment of Competence
- Supervisory skills
- Research Methodology, Biostatistics and Medical Writing
- Organized workshops for the examiners with foreign experts as facilitators to train them in new assessment methodologies and trends.
- Organized and Educational Workshops conducted outside Pakistan in following countries :
- Saudi Arabia
- Sudan
- Bahrain
- Nepal
- Bangladesh
- Sri Lanka
- Organized workshops for the Health Managers of the country in collaboration with MOH and WHO
- Contributed in the development of Human resource for Health (HRH) through capacity building workshops for nurses and medical librarians.
- Created awareness and sensitization among the faculties of the medical institutions of the country for the emerging trends in medical education through workshops, seminars and conferences
- Introduced Postgraduate Diploma in Health Professions Education (DCPS-HPE) in 2004. Four batches have passed out since then, and 5th is underway. 49 medical educationists produced are today manning Departs of Medical Education in various medical institutions of the country
- Collaborative projects
- Reproductive Health Project with World Bank
- CME Project with Ministry of Health and WHO (in the final phase of implementation)
- Monitoring of Postgraduate Training Project with Ministry of Health and WHO
- Contributed actively in organizing national and international educational conferences, seminars and moots at CPSP
- Participated actively in National and International Conferences within the country and abroad
- Networking with national and international organizations such as WHO and WHO Collaborating Centres in Eastern Mediterranean Region, Network: TUFH, etc.
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