LAHORE: The University of Health Sciences (UHS) is to launch two training programmes for general practitioners from this year. The two-year diploma and four-year Doctor of Medicine (MD) programmes in family medicine shall be offered at UHS-affiliated medical colleges.
The programmes were approved in the 63rd meeting of the UHS Advanced Studies and Research Board here on Thursday with Vice Chancellor Prof Malik H Mubashar in the chair. The members of the board were told that there were more than 120,000 registered family physicians in Pakistan who were not formally trained in family medicine.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 9th, 2012.
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