With a view to promoting revision and innovation in medical education in Punjab, the University of Health Sciences (UHS) is organising a three-day International symposium on medical education from March 29, for faculty and students of the affiliated medical colleges.
The symposium is being organised in collaboration with Liverpool, Warwick, Durham and Nottingham universities of the United Kingdom. Medical educationists from USA, India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan will also present their papers in the symposium. In this context, a video link was established on Wednesday between UHS and Liverpool University. The two institutions agreed to start dual award postgraduate certificate, diploma and master's degree programmes at UHS.
Liverpool University's consultant medical educationist, Hazel Howden Leach emphasised the need for establishing a culture for high quality learning and teaching and promoting harmonisation by standardising medical education in affiliated medical colleges. UHS Vice Chancellor Professor M H Mubbashar, Board of Governors' members Professor Zafar Iqbal Qureshi and former Justice Amir Raza Khan, focal person from Liverpool University Dr Atif Rehman, Dr Arif Rashid Khawaja and senior faculty members were also present on the occasion.
Professor M H Mubbashar said that the symposium would provide an opportunity to discuss the issues and current trends in medical education and the challenges and opportunities posed to medical teachers in their quest to provide quality medical education to today's medical students.
He further said the symposium would also provide an opportunity to have some insights into the strengths and pitfalls of traditional medical education, which would enhance understanding of the need for change and the global ongoing curriculum reforms in medical education.
He said that an open-house debate among medical students would also be arranged on March 31, with some invited students from UK, who were taught through Problem-based Learning System, so that the students could decide for themselves, as stakeholders, about their future mode of teaching and learning.
Hazel Howden Leach assured full support of Liverpool University in establishing a Centre for Innovation in Medical Education (CIME) at UHS. She also proposed the establishment of Medical Education Enhancement Fund (MEEF) to reward teachers for innovation in medical education in Punjab.
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