Three Days Undergraduate Medical Curriculum workshop concludes

Dated:01-02-2010

Vice Chancellor (VC) Khyber Medical University (KMU), Peshawar Prof. Dr. Mohammad Hafizullah said that the current undergraduate medical curriculum is decades old. This is a system base curriculum where all subjects are taught in isolation with no coordination. In almost all the medical schools in the developed countries the curriculum has been changed positively. Even in our own country some of the medical colleges have introduced changes either totally or partially, he was addressing as chief guest to the concluding session of three days Undergraduate Medical Curriculum workshop held here at IPM&R HMC, Peshawar.

He said that curriculum development is a dynamic process. It cannot remain stagnant. It has to be changed to the requirements of modern age and local needs. New methods of learning and assessment are the need of the hours. The students in our institutions should not lag behind. They must have access to modern and more appropriate system of learning.

He said that KMU has already conducted a number of workshops both for the faculty of public and private sector medical colleges, engaging resource persons from Agha Khan, Shifa International and from Rawalpindi Medical College.

VC KMU hoped that all the participants have learned a lot from this activity and young medical students as well the patients of the province will be also able to reap the benefit of new and updated techniques in medical education. He appreciated the hard work of Prof. Dr. Shad Mohammad Director Academics KMU for organizing such a successful workshop and specially his efforts for introducing a PBL oriented curriculum at Undergraduate level in NWFP. Later on VC KMU awarded certificates to the participants of the workshop.