In a bid to provide students with a patient-centred and disease-focused medical education, and as a crucial step towards the introduction of semester or modular system in medical colleges, the University of Health Sciences (UHS) has finalised a new integrated curriculum for MBBS programme which will be presented in upcoming International Conference on Medical Education to be organized by the varsity by the end of this month.
To review the existing curriculum of medical colleges in Punjab and to develop this integrated curriculum under which the formal "class room" knowledge will be integrated with clinical experience, UHS had constituted a committee of subject specialists, headed by Pro-Vice Chancellor, Professor Dr Junaid Sarfraz Khan, early this year. The committee held several meetings during last few months and also reviewed rules and regulations of examinations of UHS.
UHS pro-vice chancellor Dr Junaid said that development of this integrated curriculum is only the first step towards meeting the World Federation for Medical Education standards for accreditation of the MBBS programme. "The implementation of an integrated contextually relevant curriculum that puts emphasis on the development of self-directed life-long adult learning traits and focuses on experiential learning of skills, attitudes and concepts will require considerable logistics and human resources challenges to be met by all stakeholders," he added.
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