The Research Evaluation Unit of CPSP has announced that publications in seven journals, including Cureus, will no longer be accepted for the research article requirement of FCPS trainees. The notice is effective from 1 October 2026 and is being shown as a pop-up on the CPSP trainee e-Portal.
Six infected wounds in one month at a Jhang hospital could not be traced to any surgeon, procedure or theatre. Indicators 85 and 86 require documented OT environment surveillance and surgical site infection rates analysed by surgeon, procedure and room.
Dr. Hammad Ali brings his first trial synopsis in a plastic sleeve: odd and even dates for allocation, pain scored by himself, difficult patients excluded, and “double blind” because two seemed the standard number. In this post of The Research Clinic, his low- versus standard-pressure pneumoperitoneum trial becomes a lesson in how a randomised controlled trial really works. Learn block randomisation, allocation concealment with sealed envelopes, who can and cannot be blinded, intention-to-treat analysis, equipoise, trial registration before the first patient and the CONSORT 2025 flow diagram.
Indicator 11 of MSDS Standard 4 (RED) requires the doctor and support staff to know how to detect and contain fire and non-fire emergencies. A Sialkot dispenser who would throw water on a smoking electric board shows why the assessor interviews staff, and how one training session and a yearly drill fixed it.
Dr. Junaid Rashid arrives early with a blue-pen timeline he drew himself, and it turns out to be a cohort study. In this post of The Research Clinic, the group learns how a cohort follows an exposed and an unexposed group forward in time, how to calculate incidence and relative risk from a 2×2 table, and what a hazard ratio is. It covers prospective versus retrospective cohorts, the Framingham Heart Study, loss to follow-up, confounding and cost, and why Dr. Bushra Fatima’s short hospital-based cohort is the realistic model for a CPSP trainee.
Dr. Hammad Ali spends forty-seven minutes typing eleven references in three different styles, and his supervisor stops reading at the reference list. In this post of The Research Clinic, the group learns what a reference manager does, how EndNote, Zotero and Mendeley compare, and how to import and clean references from PubMed. It also shows the same paper in Vancouver (CPSP) and Harvard (UHS) style, how to cite while you write in Word, and the reference mistakes reviewers spot in seconds.
Indicator 10 of MSDS Standard 3 (RED) requires adequate arrangements for patient privacy during consultation and examination, including a female attendant when a male practitioner examines a female patient or a minor. A Sahiwal clinic with an open door and an unscreened couch shows how a curtain, a partition and a chaperone fix it.
Dr. Bushra Fatima’s synopsis has one specific objective: “to find the outcomes.” In this post of The Research Clinic, she learns to write a one-sentence general objective, two to five measurable specific objectives, and a non-directional hypothesis only when the study compares groups. It covers the objective formula, how the verb signals your analysis, null and alternative hypotheses, one-tailed versus two-tailed tests, and the five mistakes CPSP reviewers notice first.
Indicator 9 of MSDS Standard 3 (YELLOW) checks seven patient comfort facilities: sitting, emergency lighting, a waste receptacle, ventilation, clean drinking water, toilet access and wire-gauze mosquito proofing. A beautifully furnished Lahore clinic fails on a torch, showing that the first five facilities decide the score.
Indicator 8 of MSDS Standard 3 (YELLOW) requires enough space for consultation, comfortable sitting for three to five waiting patients, and dispensing or dressing where offered. A single-room Gujranwala clinic seeing eighty patients a day shows how wall racks and a simple partition can meet the standard without a second room.
