Rules & Regulations for MD/MS Program

a) These regulations may be called the PUMHS Post graduate level-III & IV Degree Courses MS/MD amended Regulations 2023.
b) They shall come into force at once and shall apply to all students/candidates who intend to do Post graduate Degree courses like, MD/MS from PUMHSW Shaheed Benazir Abad.
c) By development and adhering to these rules and regulations, the medical University PUMHSW will ensure that the admission process for the Postgraduate clinical degrees remains transparent, fair and effective, and that students are provided with a conductive environment for learning and growth.

DEFINATION: In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expression shall have the meaning hereby respectively assigned to them that is to say:

a) AS& RB: means Advance Studies & Research Board.
b) Candidates Training Portfolio means a professional development portfolio to track progress in the training program. It shall consist of a record of acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes.
c) Continuous Internal Assessments(CIS) means workplace based assessments, candidate’s training portfolio assessment and supervisor’s annual review report on these assessments.
d) Core Curriculum means Course of study which is deemed central and usually made mandatory for all students of MD or MS Degree Programs in various disciplines.
e) Curriculum means the set of course and its content.
f) Deans Committee will consist of all the deans and the quorum will be one third.
g) Director PGMC means Director Post graduate medical courses.
h) Error Investigation means medical error investigation which involves defining the problem; identifying the cause (analysis) and selecting the best solution (reduce the risk).
i) Examiner means Examiner of Theory and Practical/oral examinations of MD/MS programs.
j) External Examiner means the examiner who is not teaching (or has not taught during the academic year) candidates of MD/MS programs in this university.
k) Generic Competencies means the qualities or state of being functionality adequate or having sufficient knowledge, judgement, skills or strengths which are applicable to a whole class or group.
l) Government means Government of Sindh.
m) Hippocratic Oath means an Oath historically taken by Physicians and other healthcare professionals swearing to practice medicine honestly.
n) MTAE means mid term Assessment Examination to be held after 2 years of enrollment in PG course.
o) MD means Doctor of Medicine
p) MS means Master of Surgery
q) Paper setter means paper setter for written papers of MD/MS examinations.
r) Practice Based Learning (PBL) means the process of learning to use scientific evidence related to patient’s health problems and the ability to interpret medical literature.
s) Program means each and every component of training for PUMHSW degrees of MD/MS.
t) Program Format means the whole plan of training and assessment for MD/MS Degrees and this shall be rejected to as program format.
u) Root cause analysis(RCA) means a method of problem solving that tries to identify the root cause of faults or problems that cause operating events.
v) Specially specific competency means the qualities or states of being functionality adequate or having sufficient knowledge, judgment, skills or strengths which are applicable to the relevant specially of training.
w) Supervisor means supervisor for overall conduct of his own specialty in MD/MS Degree programs.
x) Supervisor’s Evaluation Proforma means supervisor’s Evaluation Proforma for Continuous Internal Assessments.
y) System Based Practice means competency of a resident to understand how patient care relates to the health care system as a whole and how to use the system to improve the quality and safety of patient care.
z) System Thinking means an approach to problem solving, by reviewing “problems” as parts of an overall system, rather than reacting to specific part, outcomes or events in isolation and potentially contributing to further development of unintended consequences, System thinking focus on cyclical rather than linear and effect.
aa) Thesis means MD/MS thesis written as long essay or dissertation based on university approved research project.
ab) Training Program means training of medical in achieving generic and specially specic competencies for their chosen discipline, leading to Postgraduates degree of MD/MS Program. ac) University means PUMHSW University.
ad) Workplace Based Assessments means assessment of generic and specialty of candidates training portfolio.
ae) Board Of Studies(BOS) means Board of Studies as per charter of PUMHSW University. af) Advanced Studies and Research Board(AS&RB) means Advanced Studies and Research Board as per charter of PUMHSW University.