The council says all doctors are required to display their PMDC registration certificate prominently at the place of practice.
The registered medical or dental practitioners having only basic medical or dental qualification are not authorised to carry out specialised procedures.
According to PMDC officials, only doctors with additional medical or dental postgraduate qualifications will be authorised to practice as specialists in their respective fields.
They said PMDC will conduct surprise inspections to check implementation of its orders, adding that these measures have been taken in order to check quackery.
They said in future all doctors with postgraduate degrees will have to mention so in their PMDC registration certificates along with their degree awarding and training institutes.
Officials said all postgraduate students will have to provide a transcript of their training in order to ensure they have professional knowledge of the specialty and requisite skills to carry out procedures.
The council will also issue a licence for practicing medicine for which all doctors will have to avail mandatory credit hours of Continuous Medical Education (CME) to stay updated with the new medical technologies and innovations.
Doctors using unregistered degrees or additional qualification of any specialty with their names which are not registered with PMDC will be dealt with strict disciplinary action.
PMDC officials said all registered medical and dental practitioners have been advised to adhere to the regulations.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 13th, 2014.
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