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Re: med school in Pak

@TheRealDeal

Most of the doctors produced by Pak med schools are 2nd rate, mostly because of the huge amount of cheating that goes on, thus most don’t pass PLAB, USMLE.

Interesting article about med schools in Pakistan,by one of Pakistans leading journalists, in Dawn:

http://www.dawn.com/weekly/cowas/cowas.htm

The serious issues raised was the steep increase in fraudulent measures adopted by junior doctors trained in Pakistan in order to gain employment in the UK, including concocted CVs, false titles and tenures of jobs, fabricated testimonials, publications and presentations and other numerous acts involving plagiarism — all encouraged by certain senior doctors of Pakistan.

The letter gave details of how Pakistan’s medical colleges and teaching hospitals function (or rather malfunction), and how doctors obtain house jobs certificates without spending a single day in their wards. It described Karachi’s Civil Hospital as a “complete shambles” and “a den of corruption,” it blamed the PMDC, “a puppet of the federal ministry”, for letting medical education fall to the despicable standards it has reached today, it accused the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan (CPSP) of being out of control of the PMDC as the president of this institution runs it “on a commercial basis collecting exorbitant fees and has been in the chair for more than 20 years.”

Giving credit where credit is due, the writer did say that “there are still a few institutions such as the Aga Khan University, SUIT, etc, that have managed to maintain their professional standards.”

If you look closely,you’ll find that all these institutes are in Sindh. Not a word about Punjab. Agha Khan is a very good institute but SUIT ? Its a post graduate training institute not for undergraduate students. As far as Sindh medical colleges are concerned, other than AKU, there is not other institute worth mentioning. DOW is ok but other than that …NONe..
Recognised medical colleges in Punjab include: Allama Iqbal Medical College Lahore, Army Medical College Rawalpindi, Fatima Jinnah Medical College Lahore, King Edward Medical College Lahore, Nishtar Medical College Multan, Punjab Medical College Faisalabad, Quaid-e-Azam Medical College Bahawalpur, Rawalpindi Medical College and De Montmorency College of Dentistry Lahore.
KEMC, AIMC,FJMC, QMC, RMC n De Mont are very good institutes. And these are not in minority!
As far as Ayub Medical ,Khyber and Bolan medical college in Balochistan, they are thought to be sub-standard institutes in the medical community.