KARACHI: A gold-medal winning doctor in nuclear medicine has taken her medical school to court over a failed exam, which she alleges was deliberately prepared from material not in the syllabus in order to fail her.
Dr Nausheen Fatima filed a petition in the Sindh High Court that was taken up by a division bench headed by Chief Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany. Dr Fatima named the secretary of health and the president of the College of Physicians & Surgeons Pakistan, among others, as respondents.
On Tuesday, the judges asked the College of Physicians & Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) whether it could re-examine Dr Fatima.
Dr Fatima’s lawyer Raana Khan submitted that the petitioner was an MBBS doctor, MS (Nuclear Medicines) and was awarded a gold medal. She has 12 publications to her name in national and international journals. She was awarded a degree by the American Board of Nuclear Cardiology. She started training at the Atomic Energy Medical Centre at JPMC and later joined the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital. This annoyed the JPMC authorities, where she was doing research under the supervision of a senior professor.
She alleged that the CPSP examiners held the examination of the Nuclear Medicines paper II on March 17, 2010 but the paper was deliberately prepared out of line with the course to fail her.
When the results were announced on April 3, 2009 she scored less marks. She asked the court to declare this as illegal.
The SHC asked the CPSP’s lawyer Ismat Mehdi whether the college would be willing to re-examine the petitioner who barely passed with a 5.5. Mehdi said she would ask her client.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 21st, 2010.
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