KARACHI, Oct 30: The annual graduation ceremony of fellows, residents and interns of the Aga Khan University’s department of postgraduate medical education was held on Wednesday.

Mr M Hayat Zafar, Professor Emeritus, president of Pakistan Medical Dental Council, was the chief guest on the occasion.

To date, the AKU has awarded certificates to 1,167 persons of its internship, residency and fellowship programmes in over 30 different medical specialities.

This year, 45 people were awarded certificates for completing their internship programme. In addition, 38 residents and seven fellows received certificates for completion of special training in several clinical disciplines.

The disciplines include anaesthesia, community medicine, diagnostic radiology, family medicine, general surgery, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics and gynaecology, orthopaedic surgery, otolaryngology/ head and neck surgery, paediatrics and pathology.

In 2003, residency training programmes in orthodontics and plastic surgery and fellowship programmes in medical oncology, cardio-thoracic anaesthesiology, intensive-care medicine and urology were also introduced by the centre.

On the occasion, AKU President Shamsh Kassim-Lakha, highlighted the new initiatives taken by the varsity, specially the establishment of the AKU Examination Board, besides the ongoing programmes such as faculty of arts and sciences and the Institute for Human Development.—APP