50 Ireland-bound doctors to return and serve nation

Medics have been selected by a committee of CPSP and Royal College Ireland

LAHORE: Trainee doctors of College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan have reached Ireland for a two-year international medical training programme under CPSP-HSE Ireland Scholarship Scheme.

Senior Professor of Royal College of Physicians Ireland Dr Geoff Chadwick welcomed the CPSP trainee doctors’ batch.



A combined selection committee of CPSP and Royal College Ireland selected 50 trainee doctors for international medical training at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland for 2017-19.

The training of these doctors will start at an Irish Hospital from July 10. The postgraduate trainee doctors will get training in eight specialised fields, including general medicine, general surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, emergency medicine, psychiatry, ophthalmology and anesthesia from various medical institutions of Ireland.

As many as 290 postgraduate trainees of CPSP have already completed their training in seven specialised fields and 75 young doctors are on a training course in Ireland. These postgraduate doctors have been registered with the Irish Medical Council and are getting a stipend equivalent to that of local trainees of Ireland at around €3,000.

The CPSP has made it compulsory for its trainees to return to Pakistan after completion of their two years of medical training as this would be help full to control the brain drain of specialist doctors in Pakistan.



The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared CPSP-HSE Ireland scheme as a quality training programme for developing countries. This fifth batch of the trainee doctors will get training under CPSP-HSE Royal College of Ireland Scholarship program in Ireland.

The 2013 batch of specialists of CPSP is already serving patients in Pakistan after completing their training from Ireland.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, July 5^th, 2017.