CPSP to give postgraduate fellowship to docs in UK

G-B CM urges doctors to retain their character of being messiah for the ailing

ISLAMABAD: The College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) will take examination from aspiring postgraduate doctors in the UK for the first time in 2018.

In this regard, an agreement has been signed with the respective bodies and it’s a great achievement for CPSP, said the president of the college Zafar Ullah Chaudhry.

He was speaking at a 51st convocation of CPSP where about 531 doctors were awarded degrees of specialisation in various fields.

Among the specialists, 431 were awarded FCPS fellowship, 97 MCPS membership and three health professional of education degrees. With this the number of FCPS fellows has risen to 26,000 in Pakistan. Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Hafeezur Rehman was invited to award the degrees to the successful doctors.

“Doctors are like messiah for the ailing poor and to treat them should be their motto of life,” the CM said.

He said it’s great to know that the degrees of CPSP were recognised world over and especially in Ireland and Europe, where a great number of CPSP fellows have been performing their duties.

He wished and requested the college administration to open their regional branch in Gilgit-Baltistan too.

Prof Chaudhry briefing about the college said the examination body was awarding degrees 73 fellowship and 22 membership programs in various disciplines. The CPSP with these achievements today assumes a distinguished and a prestigious position among the institutions of postgraduate medical education in the world.

He said from 2018 onwards the college, for the first time, will take exams from aspiring postgraduates in the UK. In this regard MoU has been signed with the respective bodies and it’s a great achievement for the body, he added.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 24^th, 2017.