LAHORE, Oct 20: The University of Health Sciences on Monday declared the results of MBBS third professional annual examination for 2003, held in September.

The result notification says 595 candidates from the Quaid-i-Azam Medical College, Bahawalpur, the Rawalpindi Medical College and the Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore, appeared in the examination. Of them, 350 candidates have been declared successful with 59.4 percentage.

RMC’s Saima Arshad (Roll No 499) has notched up the first position in the examination with 441 marks out of 600 marks. The second position went to RMC’s Ammara Masood (Roll No 432) with 433 marks.

QAMC students Afsheen Rafiq (Roll No 290) and Ayesha Javed (Roll No 277) shared the third position by scoring 503 marks, out of 700 marks.

Ammara Masood has also got distinction in community medicine by securing 161 marks out of the 200.

The failed candidates, according to the notification, are required to submit their admission forms within 15 days from the date of declaration of result.

The MBBS third professional second annual examination will begin on Dec 9.

It is pertinent to mention that the UHS had also invited the four top position holders at a press briefing, but theuniversity presented nothing to them.

During the briefing, the position holders expressed resentment by saying why had they been invited from Bahawalpur and Rawalpindi to attend the ceremony when the university had no plan to award them with any thing — even with a university souvenir? “If we have been invited just to hear the results, that could have easily been communicated to us in Bahawalpur and Rawalpindi,” they said.

UHS board of governors chairman Prof Mahmood Ahmad Chaudhry told the position holders that they had been invited to show the university and strengthen their bond with it. The university, he added, would award them gold medals and scholarships in due course of time.

However, after the press briefing and lunch arranged for them, the position holders were left unattended and not shown the university.

Earlier, UHS vice-chancellor Prof Malik Husain Mubashir said the university had already declared the third professional annual examination results conducted for the Nishtar Medical College, Multan.

He said the NMC examination was conducted on a different pattern, which was taken from the Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan. —Reporter