CPSP fellows, postgraduate trainees interviewed for service in United Kingdom

HONOUR for CPSP

Islamabad

A team of doctors from University of Birmingham, UK is on a visit to Pakistan on invitation of College of Physician and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) for interviewing CPSP fellows and postgraduate trainees for two-year on-job training in UK.

The team comprising Mike Hallissey, Dr Phil Bright and Dr Javid A Kayani is interviewing fellows of CPSP for further training in Birmingham University Hospital for a period of two years in different specialties while postgraduate trainees who have cleared Intermediate Module exam are also being interviewed and the successful candidates would be sent to UK for further training of two years in various subjects.

The team is interviewing candidates including CPSP fellows and PG trainees at the Islamabad Regional Centre of the CPSP from Monday to Wednesday, said Regional Director and Councillor of CPSP Islamabad Professor Dr. Mohammad Shoaib Shafi while talking to ‘The News’ on Monday.

He added the CPSP has already signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Birmingham UK on the subject of on-job training of its fellows and PG trainees for two years in UK.

He said it is an honour for the CPSP that its fellows and PG trainees who would be selected for on job training in UK would be able to serve there without taking PLAB test, a test that is necessary for practicing medicine in UK. The successful candidates would be exempted from PLAB test, he said.

He added the doctors going to serve in UK through the MoU signed by CPSP would be paid salary equal to that of the native practitioners of UK.

The programme is not a brain drain instead it is brain gain as the doctors going to UK after interviews must have to come back to Pakistan after two years to receive certificates from the CPSP, explained Dr. Shafi.

He added that according to the MoU between CPSP and University of Birmingham, a total of 100 CPSP fellows and PG trainees would be sent for on-job training in UK after every six months.

Professor Shoaib Shafi hosted a dinner for the team of doctors from UK that was attended by the CPSP President Professor Zafar Ullah Chaudhry along with distinguished guests from medical profession.

The Dinner was attended by Zulfiqar Haider Gardezi, Maj. Gen Saleem Ahmad, Professor Dr. Mohammad Iqbal Khan, Professor Akhter Waheed, Lt Gen Asif Mumtaz Sukhera, Lt Gen Syed Muhammad Imran Majeed, Maj Gen Tariq Hussain, Maj Gen Khawar Rehman, Maj Gen Salman Ali, Maj Gen Sohail Hafeez, Professor Rizwana Chaudhary, Professor Mutti Ullah Mutti, Maj Gen Aslam Khan, Dr Khawaja Junaid Mustafa, Maj Gen Mazhar Ishaq, Maj Gen (r) Azhar Mehmood Kiyani, Professor Khalid Masood Gondal and Professor Naqibullah Achakzai.