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