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2(cid:9) DENTAL TRIBUNE(cid:9) Pakistan Edition(cid:9)March 2017 Training for medical teachers should be mandatory to ensure high quality medical Education: CM Sindh K ARACHI - The Chief Minister of Sindh, Syed Murad Ali Shah while addressing the gala dinner of the recently concluded Association for Excellence in Medical Education Conference 2017 held in Karachi stressed the need for mandatory training for teachers to ensure quality medical education. The conference was held in collaboration with Aga Khan University and Jinnah Sindh Medical University Karachi Pakistan.(cid:9) At the gala dinner Chief Minister of Sindh, Syed Murad Ali Shah was the chief guest. He termed the health profession as a noble profession and said that the importance of doctors is most felt when one falls sick or our near or dear ones are in the need of healthcare. He stressed the need for trained teachers and said that the teachers in the medical colleges should be highly educated to ensure that the medical students get best training. (cid:9) Pakistan doctors are regarded very highly throughout the world and one reason is that they are not afraid to take chances when it comes to saving lives and disregard the fear of legal suits. This gives them edge over everybody else when it comes to treating a patient. (cid:9) The teachers should be fully trained in the medical education and training for teachers should be made mandatory. Referring to jobs advertised the CM said that I asked the health department to develop a test rather than any other evaluation as after 5 years of undergraduate and 1 NEWS Publisher/CEO Syed Hashim A. 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International Imprint Group Editor(cid:9) (cid:9) Daniel Zimmermann(cid:9) newsroom@dental-tribune.com (cid:9)(cid:9) Tel.:+44 161 112 1830 Clinical Editors(cid:9) Magda Wojtkiewicz(cid:9)(cid:9) Nathalie Schüller Online Editor/Social Media Manager Claudia Duschek Editors(cid:9) Kristin Hübner Yvonne Bachmann Managing Editor & Head of(cid:9) Marc Chalupsky DTI Communication Services Junior PR Editor (cid:9) Brendan Day to 2 years of training a doctor he should be considered as highly trained and a bureaucrat should not be the one assessing him or her. More than 8000 doctors passed the exam and I asked concerned department to hire them all as we have a shortfall of more than 7600 doctors in Sindh, he added. Continued on page 15 Copy Editors(cid:9)(cid:9) Hans Motschmann Sabrina Raaff Publisher/President/CEO(cid:9) Torsten R. Oemus Chief Financial Officer(cid:9) Dan Wunderlich Chief Technology Officer(cid:9) Serban Veres Business Development Manager Claudia Salwiczek-Majonek (cid:9) Project Manager Online(cid:9) Tom Carvalho AEME Conference 2017 Panelists Recommend guidelines for Dental curriculum up-gradation K upgrading the curriculum. The panelists included Prof Feroz, Principal, (Liquat University of Medical Sciences), Prof Tasleem Hosein, Principal (Fatima Jinnah Dental College) , Prof. Mehmood Haider, vice Principal, (Karachi Lahore), Dr. Ahsan Sethi (Lahore Medical & Dental College, Prof. Hasnain Sakrani (Altamash Institute of Dental Medicine), Prof. Yawar Abdi (SIOHS, JSMU),Hashim Hasan (Dental Tribune) and the host Prof. Kefi Iqbal (Dean, Faculty of Dentistry, ARACHI - On the sidelines of the recently concluded Association for Excellence in Medical Education Conference 2017 held in in collaboration with Aga Khan University and Jinnah Sindh Medical University Karachi, a dental seminar was held aimed at upgrading the BDS curriculum. (cid:9) The seminar invited panelists from various universities and colleges to converge together on a single platform and compile recommendations for Medical And Dental College), Prof. Mervyn Hosein, Dean, (Ziauddin Medical University) , Prof. Saqib Rashid, President Pakistan Dental Association (CC), Prof. Ayyaz Ali Khan (Sheikh Zayed Hospital SIOHS, JSMU)(cid:9) The panelists agreed on the following recommendations for the Higher education of Commission and Pakistan Medical & Dental Council. 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