KARACHI, March 27 Twenty-two doctors registered with the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) will receive four-year specialised training in different medical fields in Saudi Arabia.

This was stated by CPSP president Zafar Ullah Chaudhry at a reception held here on Thursday night to mark the departure of the first batch of doctors to the King Fahd Medical City (KFMC), Riyadh, for a residency programme.

Prof Chaudhry informed the audience that this was for the first time in the history of the country and the entire Saarc region that Saudi Arabia had accepted to train CPSP trainees at their institution while adhering to the curriculum and residency programmes of the CPSP.

“You will be supervised by specialist doctors from Canada, America and other countries and also from Saudi Arabia, who have already been accredited by the CPSP to administer the residency programmes and curricula of the college,” he told the trainee doctors.

He said that after completing the training, the doctors would be eligible to appear in Fellowship of College of Physicians and Surgeons (FCPS) examinations and would be in a position to receive KFMC certificates in their specialised fields.