Department of Medical Education | DME
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