Medical universities agree on single curriculum for postgraduate training
Islamabad
February 9, 2021
Rawalpindi:National medical universities of federal capital, Punjab, Sindh, and Baluchistan have agreed on one uniform standard curriculum for post-graduate training in the country that would be based on ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) model of USA and university residency program.
Vice Chancellor at Rawalpindi Medical University Professor Muhammad Umar informed ‘The News’ that this most modern curriculum is based on six competencies which include Patient care, Medical knowledge, Professionalism, Communication & Interpersonal skills, Practice based learning and System based practices.
The weightage of patient care, medical knowledge will be 40%, professionalism will be 30% and other two 20% are added combined with 7th competency which is Research; it will be given 10% weightage. The curriculum will shift the paradigm of post graduate medical edu
As a current student of Professor Umar A. Pate at the Department of Mass Communication, Bayero University, Kano, I must confess that his appointment is well deserved and could not have come at a better time. Professor Pate is not just a lecturer but a distinguished personality who is excellent in manners and mannerisms, human relations, conflict resolutions and social development. This is why Professor Ralph A. Akinfeleye always describes him as the loss of University of Maiduguri and the gain of Bayero University, Kano.
I must make it categorically clear that we at Bayero University are very happy that our own is about to join Federal University of Kashere as the third Vice-Chancellor. We are sure that he will make us proud by moving the baby university to greater heights. We are, however, jealous that we are going to miss a moving encyclopedia and a man of respect whose contributions towards BUK can never be measured.