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Shifa Colleges convocation
Islamabad, Dec 28, 2007: Graduating doctors and nurses of Shifa College of Medicine and
Shifa College of Nursing Thursday took oath of serving the humanity with love
and care without consideration of religion, caste, creed, colour, gender and
social standing.
At the fifth convocation of medical college and the
first of nursing college under the faculty of Bahria University Health Sciences,
the graduates promised to show utmost respect to human life and practice their
profession with consciousness and dignity.
Professor Dr. Qasim Mehdi,
director general of Dr. A Q Khan Institute of Biomedical and Genetic
Engineering, Karachi University, was the chief guest on the occasion.
Out of a total 42 graduates, all top three positions and majority of
scholarships and distinctions in different medicine faculties went to girls.
Anza Saleem claimed the top position with Naeema Liaquat second and Faiza Azhar
Baig getting third position.
In nursing, altogether 18 students
graduated, among them 13 were male and five female. Those who received
excellence awards included Muhammad Ishtiaq for securing first position in
Professional Examination Part I and II and the leadership award whereas merit
awards were presented to Ayaz Khan, Faisal Aziz, Hidayatullah, Huma Rubab,
Shumail Sikander and Shumaila Jamil.
Following the distribution of
degrees and awards, newly graduated Dr. Anza Saleem and Faisal Aziz shared their
experiences with the audience.
Addressing the gathering of excited
students and parents, Dr. Qasim Mehdi said that Pakistan lacked role models in
the field of science. He encouraged students to keep discovering the hidden
secrets of nature. "Ultimate aim of a good doctor should always be to provide
relief to human suffering," he pointed out.
Bahria University Rector Vice
Admiral (r) Farooq Rashid advised students to look for vast opportunities and
challenges in the field of medicine. He said that Pakistan was ranked low in the
fields of health and education and the study of medicine was a combination of
both. "Serious contributions from the private sector are the only way to develop
in these fields," he said.
Highlighting the message of Allama Iqbal to
youth, Dr. Aziz Ali Najam, vice chancellor of the Karakorum Unversity, Skardu,
said that to strive high in their respective fields, the head, which represents
material world and the heart, which represents the spiritual world, needed to go
hand in hand.
He said that the youth of today quotes Shakespeare more
often than Iqbal who portrayed the right path for all generations through his
poetry. "When you stop thinking (tafakur) it causes death of your mind and when
you stop remembrance (zikr) it leads to spiritual death," he added.
Bahria University Dean Dr. Muhammad Amin said that Shifa Colleges were
investing a good chunk of their limited resources to create capacity and fund
research but regretted that being a private institution it was barred from
getting the fair share of publicly funded grant.
He said that colleges
were producing ethically committed, humane cadre of professionals and medical
practitioners. "In the new modular approach, ethics and psycho-social aspects
are integrated in each of the 46 modules." The News
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