Under MSDS Indicator 4 (YELLOW), the door plate must clearly display the doctor’s name and PM&DC-registered qualifications, within 4 by 10 inches and no more than three lines. Past or present appointments, memberships and unregistered qualifications are not permitted. A check against the current PM&DC certificate prevents avoidable non-conformities.
Indicator 5 of MSDS Standard 1 (RED) requires the doctor’s consultation hours to be displayed outside and inside the clinic, and actually followed. A Gujranwala clinic running without its doctor shows why the PHC treats displayed hours as a safeguard against quackery, and how one evening’s work fixed it.
Official Policy Document (announced on 21st August 2026). CIP Calculator Merit Criteria Seat Distribution & Documents Required
The University of Health Sciences (UHS), Lahore, has issued Notification No. UHS/VC-73-2026, dated 24 July 2026, laying out the schedule
The Government of Punjab has announced that from January 2027 onwards, passing the Post Graduate Entrance Test (PGET) will be
Every FCPS trainee must publish a research paper before their final exam, but with three separate approvals CPSP, the hospital IRB, and the journal each with different demands, the process becomes a silent burden. The requirement was meant to build physician-researchers. Instead, it’s producing doctors who finish a paper just to tick a box and never want to publish again. The problem isn’t the science it’s the system.
Your qualifications got you through medical school; don’t let a sloppy application undo all that hard work. We’ve compiled a checklist of essential fixes for Pakistani doctors from explaining employment gaps to formatting your CV to help you secure your next SMO or MO role with confidence.
Learn how to design a case-control study, the “detective” approach in Epidemiology, to uncover risk factors behind disease. This guide explains case-control designs, how to calculate the Odds Ratio (OR), and when to use this design for rare diseases or limited resources. Ideal for Pakistani clinicians starting in research, this post breaks down concepts such as recall bias, control selection, and why case-control studies are essential for identifying factors associated with an outcome when time and cost are constraints.
PGMI Peshawar – 2nd Fellowship Induction Criteria (July 2026 Onwards) PGMI Peshawar has officially notified the merit criteria for induction
PM&DC extends faculty promotion amnesty to address the shortage of PhD-qualified medical educators in Pakistan, allowing Level II-b faculty to advance to Professor without a PhD. The temporary regulatory relief aims to ensure continuity in medical education while aligning institutional needs with national standards. However, the move highlights ongoing concerns about weak doctoral training pipelines and the risk of normalising qualification gaps in the long term.
