Dental Tribune Pakistan Edition No.5, 2016

PUBLISHED IN PAKISTAN www.dental-tribune.com.pk SEPTEMBER, 2016 - Issue No. 05 Vol.3 Career development opportunities... Upper and lower dentures on... Implant dentistry requires... NEWS Page 2 CLINICAL PRACTICE Page 11 NATIONAL NEWS Page 14 Mobile app for Annual World Dental Congress DT International P OZNAN (POLAND) - One month ahead of its Annual World Dental Congress, the FDI World Dental Federation has introduced a mobile app exclusively for the event, which will be held in Poland this year. According to the organisers, it is a useful and convenient tool that will provide participants and exhibition visitors with all of the necessary information about the congress and help them structure their event experience individually. The smartphone app will give attendees access to information about the scientific programme and allow them create their own schedule, add notes on the sessions in advance or in real time, and find their way around the exhibition area. It is available in several languages, including English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. The 2016 Annual World Dental Congress will be held at the Miedzynarodowe Targi Poznanskie, the Poznan International Fair, from September 7 to 10. SYMPOSIA: Dental Tribune Study Club has organized a symposia at the FDI Annual World Dental Congress, Poznan. All lectures to be delivered at the symposia by experts in the field provide an invaluable opportunity to learn from opinion leaders, while earning ADA CERP C.E. Credits. In this regard, a programme has been developed that is both diverse and engaging, with every lecture offering the practical guidance that one seeks to take Continued on page 15 IAMRA urges PMDC to improve quality of education or face the music DT Pakistan Report I SLAMABAD - Thousands of Pakistani doctors face a threat of a comprehensive ban on practice and study in the United States and Europe in the wake of IAMRA's (International Association of Medical Regulatory Authorities) repeated warnings to the PMDC that it should help improve the quality of medical education and close down all illegal medical colleges in the country. According to media reports, the IAMRA had, a few months, back asked the PMDC to improve the quality of medical education and shut all illegal medical colleges. The IAMRA had reportedly warned that in case of non-compliance, it would ask the governments of the United States and all the European countries to impose a ban on the Pakistani doctors' work or study in t h e i r r e s p e c t i v e c o u n t r i e s . Confirming that that the IAMRA had issued the warning, PMDC president Prof Shabbir Lehri said that the Council fought the case before the IAMRA and got one- year relaxation for improving the quality of medical education in the country. Pointing out that the PMDC had sealed illegal or unauthorised medical colleges, he deplored that in the past those medical colleges were allowed to function, which brought international embarrassment to Pakistan. The IAMRA comprises almost all the medical regulatory authorities in the world. Hardly, any country can entertain the doctors from another country without the approval and authorisation of the IAMRA. According to sources, the Pakistani negotiators spoiled the case before the IAMRA, as they concealed the fact that the PMDC was not actually functional since 2012. The PMDC, at that time, was being run by an ad-hoc committee. And, therefore, it did not have the authority to recognise or seal the medical colleges. Moreover, taking an undue advantage of the situation, countries like India got a maximum number of its doctors adjusted in the US and the Europe. The Pakistani doctors had once been very influential and instrumental in IAMRA. Prof Syed Sibitul Hasnain was member of the management committee of the authority. Former PMDC registrar Dr Ahmad Nadeem Akbar was also the member of IAMRA and the World Federation of Medical Education. Sources said problems surfaced Don’t seek admission to unregistered medical & dental colleges: PMDC DT Pakistan Report I SLAMABAD - The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has advised students to get admission in only recognised and registered medical and dental colleges. According to an official of the PMDC, all such students could check the list of registered and authorised medical and dental colleges from the PMDC website. He said that no medical or dental institution was allowed to train students which was not registered with the PMDC. He said that all the institutions which were advertising admissions of medical and dental colleges must follow the seat allocation prescribed by the council in order to avoid any inconvenience in future. He added that passed out medical dental graduates without having students registration with the PMDC would not be registered as medical and dental practitioners. RCPS appoints Prof Ghani as Dental Adviser DT Pakistan Report P ESHAWAR - The Royal College of P h y s i c i a n s & Surgeons, Glasgow (UK) has appointed Prof. Dr. Fazal Ghani as its Dental Adviser from Pakistan for a three-year term in recognition of his services in dental education, dental research and dental health. As such Prof. Ghani has become Dental representative from Pakistan as a member of the International Advisers Network of the prestigious Royal Surgical College in the United Kingdom. A short biography of Prof. Ghani has been posted on the Website of the Royal Surgical College Glasgow. As an international adviser to the Royal College, Prof Ghani will frequently hold online meetings, besides undertaking visits to the Royal Surgical College, Glasgow. Prof Ghani did his BSc and BDS from Peshawar, M. Sc, PhD (from London) and FDS & RCPS (from Glasgow). He is currently working as Professor and Head Continued on page 15

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