ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has decided to suspend the registration of faculty members who have been teaching in unrecognized medical colleges or which are recommended for closure.

Moreover, faculty members who have been teaching in unrecognised colleges will not get experience certificates for the period of teaching there.

An official of the PMDC requesting not to be identified said the council has been trying to close unrecognised medical colleges for last over one decade but failed because managements of the colleges used students as a shield.

“Whenever PMDC decides to close the unrecognised colleges their managements moved courts and got stay in their favour,” he said.

“Because of the recent decision teachers will start avoiding unrecognised colleges because they know that their experience will not be counted by the PMDC,” he said.

“Although there should be around 55 facility members in each college as 13 subjects are taught in each college but unrecognised colleges have on the average 25 faculty members. Because of the decision a number of faculty members will leave rendering the unrecognized colleges will dysfunctional,” he said.

“This decision is taken because ministry despite clear recommendation is not denotifying these colleges. Those colleges include Alrazi Medical College, Peshawar, Hashmat Medical College, Gujrat, D.G. Khan Medical College, Pak Red Cresent Medical College, Lahore and Sahiwal Medical College,” he said.

Published in Dawn, June 22nd, 2015

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