FMIC

The Postgraduate medical education programme (PGME) at FMIC inducted 14 new residents from 12 different provinces of Afghanistan. These include Badakhshan, Baghlan, Balkh, Farah, Ghanzni, Kandahar, Kunar, Logar, Oruzgan, Paktia, Parwan and Wardak provinces.  The residents have received their medical degrees from universities from Afghanistan Pakistan and Russia.  The new batch will pursue their academic programmes in seven different specialties: paediatric orthopaedics, anaesthesiology, pathology, radiology, paediatric surgery, paediatric medicine and cardiology. 

“FMIC is an exclusive organization and I am happy for being part of it. The FMIC PGME programme is challenging and I want to achieve the most out of this”, states Abdullah, resident of Paediatric Surgery.

In total the PGME programme will have 57 residents studying from year one to year seven. The first batch of six residents of paediatric medicine and paediatric surgery graduated from this programme in March 12, 2016. 

Shabir Ahmad, anaesthesiology resident, expressed his happiness on joining FMIC PGME programme and considers FMIC as the only hospital offering postgraduate education in Anaesthesiology. 

T​he PGME programme is duly recognized by the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), Afghanistan and AKU and the induction of residents as well is based on the receipt of applications along with residency entrance results from the MoPH. Through a transparent process entrance tests were given; after clearance of the test shortlisted candidates were interviewed and 14 residents were selected based on the set criteria. 

The PGME programme is offered on FMIC campus and provides the residents with specialized classrooms with eLearning amenities, skills lab, a well-resourced library and other teaching materials. The clinical training at FMIC is supplemented by workshops in research methods and thesis development by the AKU faculty. Senior residents also spend three months at AKU Pakistan to get additional training in clinical management in their respective fields.

“The four to five years PGME programme aims at training medical specialists and sub-specialists needed to provide high quality maternal and child as well as adult care to serve the needs of healthcare system in Afghanistan and to train future leaders and to provide leadership to other medical teaching institutions in the country”, added Dr Abdullah Fahim, Medical Director, FMIC.