CPSP invites applications from PG trainees and fellows

training in UK

Islamabad

College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan has invited applications from suitable candidates, the fellows of the CPSP, for training opportunities in top medical institutions in the United Kingdom.

The CPSP has successfully managed to get training offers from the top medical universities in UK and the CPSP fellows after their selection would be able to learn and experience new skills in medical field in UK, said the Regional Director of CPSP Islamabad Professor Muhammad Shoaib Shafi while talking to ‘The News’.

He said a high-level CPSP team visited UK recently and after holding talks with the top universities there, the CPSP signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for further training of their trainees.

He said this further training will be of two levels, one is after passing IMM (Intermediate Module) examination in Pakistan and the other is for further advanced training for fellows of the CPSP.

He said the successful candidates would be given an attractive stipend amounting to £3,500 per month during their training that would be for a maximum period of two years. He added the training in UK institutions would be in different specialties including Surgery and allied, Medicine and allied, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Orthopaedic Surgery, Anaesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Radiodiagnostics, Critical Care, Rheumatology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, ENT, Vitreo Retinal and Paediatric Ophthalmology, Urology, Nephrology, Neurosurgery and Vascular Surgery.

Professor Shoaib said that CPSP has invited applications from suitable candidates till September 30, 2016 and notification in this regard is available on the CPSP website. He explained that those post-graduate trainees and CPSP fellows who would be selected for training in the UK institutions will serve Pakistani nation in a better way as they must have to come back after two year training to take their examination here in Pakistan.

To a query, he said it is a great milestone that the CPSP has achieved. The CPSP is trying to strengthen both the knowledge and economy by creating on-job trainings for the PG trainees and fellows.

It is important that as many as 270 post-graduate trainees registered with the CPSP are getting training in seven specialties in Ireland under a Scholarship Exchange Programme between Health Services Executive Ireland and CPSP while well over 1,000 postgraduate trainees of the CPSP along with a number of consultants are working in KSA under various programmes.

Professor Shoaib said the recent scheme for PG trainees and fellows in the UK is being termed as the best model of exchange between a third world country and a developed country among medical professionals and it can be termed as the best example of brain gain instead of brain drain.