The Academic Council of the University of Health Sciences (UHS) during its 10th session on Monday passed a resolution against the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council’s (PMDC) revised criteria for faculty strength, elimination of passing marks for entry tests and the proposal for evening classes at medical colleges.
Most of the medical colleges’ teachers attending the session criticised the PMDC for making decisions that would “affect the quality of medical education.”
“The resolution will be sent to the PMDC and other relevant bodies within a few days,” a public medical college principal who attended the meeting told The Express Tribune.
The participants unanimously condemned the PMDC’s conditions for admissions to medical and dental colleges and refused to accept the revised teacher-student ratio. The participants expressed their concern over the notification. They also apposed the PMDC’s proposal to start evening classes at medical colleges which was sent to the president in April 2011.
The council meeting also said that the new ‘structured house job’, recently introduced by the PMDC, was impractical. According to the new structure, the house job has now been divided into two modules, each of six months.
The maximum age limit for admission in to BSc in Allied Health Sciences was also abolished during the council meeting.
The Allied Health degrees deal with professions including physiotherapy, medical imaging technology, lab technology, speech and language pathology, audiology, optometry, dental hygiene and dental technology.
The council meeting also approved a policy of advertising any cancellation of results. This, a participant of the meeting said, will help curb the fake-degree trade. The council meeting also approved a proposal to allow assistant professors, teaching at medical colleges to supervise PhD thesis.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 7th, 2011.
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