PMDC has issued public notices in newspapers warning parents and students against seeking admission in QAU’s MPhil programmes in biochemistry, molecular biology, productive physiology and microbiology, along with the MD programme in general medicine. All these programmes, the notice said, have not been recognised by the regulatory body.
PMDC Registrar Dr Raja Amjad Mehmood told The Express Tribune that QAU never invited PMDC to inspect the post graduate programmes and facilities, which is a requirement under Section 16 of the PMDC Ordinance and subsequent amendments in 2012.
“QAU is not a medical university, therefore it should invite PMDC to inspect these post graduate programmes so that they are officially notified by the federal government,” he said.
He said the council only recognises post graduate programmes that are being offered by or in affiliation with Al-Shifa Eye Trust and Health Services Academy (HSA).
He asked the parents and the students to only apply for programmes that are recognised by the medical regulator.
QAU Vice-Chancellor Dr Eatzaz Ahmad, however, said these were research programmes and the PMDC had nothing to do with them. “QAU is not awarding any medical degrees to students enrolled in these programmes. These are research programmes and do not require recognition from the PMDC”, he said.
Ahmad said that the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences was affiliated with QAU until the teaching hospital was granted medical university status in its own right.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 11th, 2014.
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