The adult literacy rate is of 60.7%, ranks 181
st out of 189 countries, according to the UN Human Development Index. About 66% of the population lives in rural areas and rely on subsistence farming under rain-fed conditions which are severely affected by the cyclical occurrence of droughts and floods, causing unbalanced food and nutritional income. A large part of the population, (62.9%) lives below income poverty line.
Further, the country has one of the lowest worldwide densities of health workers (0.4 physicians, 4.12 nurses and midwives per 10,000 people).
10,11 The distribution of health professionals across the country is not uniform, with more deficits in the north and central provinces, such as Nampula, Niassa, Cabo Delgado, and Zambeze.
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LCMD organises workshop on ‘Formatting BCQs’
Karachi: The Department of Health Professional Education (DHPE), Liaquat College of Medicine and Dentistry (LCMD) recently organised a series of workshops entitled ‘Formatting Best Choice Questions (BCQs) for faculty members of Medicine and Dentistry.
The objectives of the workshops were to introduce the faculty to the newly developed Q-Bank software and to standardize the format of BCQs that are submitted to the Q-Bank.
The workshops were conducted by Prof. Dr Irfan Ashraf, the Director of Professional Development Center (PDC), LCMD. He also emphasised that the purpose of a BCQ is to check the knowledge of students and not to confuse them into making mistakes.