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Call to improve SMC students' academic facilities
KARACHI, Dec 25, 2007: The Karachi chapter of the Pakistan Medical Association
has stressed the need for improving the academic facilities being provided to
the students of the Sindh Medical College, which is a constituent part of the
Dow University of Health Sciences.
According to PMA secretary-general Dr
Qaiser Sajjad, the university has been failing to attend to the needs of the
college students for some time.
He said that the quality of teaching and
training of MBBS students of the SMC had deteriorated, particularly during the
last some years, and deserved the immediate attention of the Pakistan Medical
and Dental Council.
"Appointment and re-location of the faculty in basic
medical sciences should be done according to rules and regulations of the PMDC,"
said Dr Sajjad, adding that the SMC should not be deprived of competent
faculty.
Furthermore, the association noted that third year, fourth year
and final year students of the SMC were now being required to visit the Dow
Medical College and the Civil Hospital Karachi for their clinical
studies.
The PMA has been of the view that the SMC could overcome
problems related to the clinical side if the Sindh government granted four
public sector hospitals located in New Karachi, Liaquatabad, Korangi and
Saudabad the status of teaching hospitals.
The hospitals should be
affiliated with the SMC and faculty positions should be awarded to all those
postgraduate doctors working in the hospitals, a PMA statement said, hoping that
a proactive role played by high-ups in the government in the matter would not
only help ease the suffering of medical students seeking clinical training but
would also place the hospitals in a position to provide emergency care to the
neighbourhood people.
Commenting on the PMA statement, the executive
director of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Dr Prof Rashid Jooma, said on Monday that his institution was facilitating SMC students as far as
clinical training was concerned and the JPMC's disassociation with the medical
college, established by the Sindh government in 1972, was not on the
cards.
Answering another question, he said he did not know why the Dow
University had called SMC students to the DMC for clinical studies. "The DUHS
vice-chancellor who met me today did not speak about alternative training
arrangements for SMC students, though he shared with me his vision about steps
aimed at improving the SMC's clinical teaching affairs right from the third
year. I hope that JPMC-SMC relations would be strengthened further in the
future," he said.
A spokesperson for DUHS said that the system of
clinical training and classes of SMC students at the JPMC were going on as usual
and misgivings about the halt to the long existing teaching and training
practices for SMC students were unfounded.
Perhaps some quarters got
confused about a plan of the university to have an integrated system of teaching
for undergraduate medical students, the spokesperson said, adding that symposia
would be held every week or every fortnight either at the DMC or at the SMC and
students would have to visit each other's campuses on a regular basis. Dawn
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| Education News | | Updated: 23 May, 2012 |
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