Foreign medical graduates seek registration

A Reporter Published January 21, 2015

ISLAMABAD: A representative of foreign medical graduates here on Tuesday called upon the government to resolve their registration issue.

Speaking at a press conference at the National Press Club, Dr Salman Rana, the president of the Foreign Graduate Association Pakistan (FGAP), said the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) was not ready to register them as medical practitioners until they passed the National Examination Board (NEB) test. He said they did graduation from different universities of China which were already registered with the PMDC.

“As the universities are registered with the PMDC, we should be registered as medical practitioners without participating in the NEB test. But the PMDC has refused to register us until we pass the exam,” he said

NEB has been made mandatory for doctors who get education in countries where the medium of education is not English to take the test.

Dr Tahir Naveed, the general secretary FGAP, said the parliament had passed a bill in 2012 under which foreign graduates had to pass the NEB test.

But it should not be applied to students who got admission to foreign universities before 2012, he added.

Published in Dawn January 21st , 2015

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Saqib

Jan 21, 2015 11:00am

This means they will fail the test. Why this aversion to taking exams?

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vikas

Jan 21, 2015 04:34pm

same test is present in india since long.. needed as the doctors from ukraine and china are mostly those students who cant secure seat in country on merit basis.. i've found many such doctors lacking in knowledge of even basics of medical sciences..

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farrukh

Jan 21, 2015 04:53pm

They must take a test as same is required in all western countries if you have graduated from abroad.the government must not make any exception.

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Ganga Din

Jan 21, 2015 05:43pm

They graduated from Chinese Universities? That is all the more reason that they should not only pass the exam. but spend at least 2 years under supervision at a Pakistani Medical College

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Ahmed

Jan 21, 2015 07:35pm

For all thise how don,t know about our case please read about it before commenting here pmdc sent us in these seven universities after assuring us that we will get rmp after graduating from these universities now they are denying to give us our right i.e rmp but we will fight for our right...

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kurram

Jan 22, 2015 02:07am

these same graduates would have no qualms about sitting for very tough exams like USMLE Step 1,2,3 if they were sitting in US.

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701932608 2 to 3 different bodies should conduct exams for fmg and passing any one of them should allow them to pactice this will stop monopoly

Jan 22, 2015 03:07am

@Ahmed 2 to 3 different bodies should conduct exams for fmg and passing any one of them should allow them to pactice this will stop monopoly

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701932608 2 to 3 different bodies should conduct exams for fmg and passing any one of them should allow them to pactice this will stop monopoly

Jan 22, 2015 03:09am

2 to 3 different bodies should conduct exams for fmg and passing any one of them should allow them to pactice this will stop monopoly

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ghost

Jan 22, 2015 04:58am

In india and all those countries everybody has to appear in liscence exam. the problem i guess is not that much with exam but the real thing is the problems it create's for us by spending atleast good fourteen months If it is adjusted i think a solution can be approched And if pmdc wants to have a just rule then hold a liscence exam for every graduate it has. by this i guess no one will be able to object anybody of how much a doctor he is..

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Jason

Jan 22, 2015 02:21pm

we are graduated from China medical university recognized by pmdc since 1995 ........our senoir get registration with out exam since 1995 then why we not ....???...we have proof of registration latters sent by pmdc to our university why they sent this latter ????why they had mentioned the recognized university name on the pmdc site ????what about 60 lack we spent bcoz of pmdc registration?????and when after graduation when we back why pmdc issued recipt for registration not exam ????when we move to court here is the another story corruption started ????in short I m really dispointed from this country especially Muslim league n bcoz they support these corrupted people

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Ahmed

Jan 22, 2015 10:00pm

For all those bashing us for nothing, let me tell you this, our university was recognized by PMDC and we were given NOC where it was clearly mentioned that we are exempted from NEB test. We spend more than 50 lakhs and when returned, PMDC was not ready to accept this. We even obtained a letter clearly stated 7 PMDC recognized universities and unfortunately today PMDC has backed off. And again those sitting in their homes and criticizing our right to get the rmp without giving NEB, they should just think what would they do if they were in our place? We Spent more than 50 lakhs for nothing? If we knew that we cannot get the rmp without giving test we would have opted for a Chinese university offering MBBS in 1 lakh per year.

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dr humayun

Jan 25, 2015 07:27am

This is great example of mismanagenent by the elected govt...this is probably due to heavy bribery by the private med colleges...i think the supreme court should take notice to unveil the prevailng corruption in PMDC

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