Presently about 200 selected Professors and subject specialists from affiliated Medical Colleges are being trained in the modern evaluation and assessment system through a series of workshops in each discipline at undergraduate level. The details of workshop on OSPE, OSCE and TOACS are as follows;

These objectives of the DME have been successfully accomplished and have rendered a significant development in quality assurance in medical education throughout the province. The Master Trainers and the trained faculty were entrusted the job of training the faculty in their parent institutes which they are doing successfully and as a result a marked improvement in the academic as well as the research activity of the affiliated Medical/Dental Institutes is expected. UHS has also facilitated establishment of "Departments of Medical Education" in affiliated Medical/Dental institutes, with the help of Master Trainers for the capacity building of their own faculty. These newly established departments are very vibrant at the following institutions namely Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore, Nishtar Medical College, Multan , Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad , Quaid-e-Azam Medical College, Bahawalpur , Rawalpindi Medical College, Rawalpindi , Services Institute of Medical Sciences, Lahore , Lahore Medical & Dental College, Lahore , FMH College of Medicine & Dentistry, Lahore , de' Montmorency College of Dentistry, Lahore and Sheikh Zayed medical College, Rahim Yar Khan, activities of Medical Education have been started.

During the year 2007, with the help of experts, several new courses were launched including the undergraduate Allied Health Sciences courses and postgraduate diplomas syllabi. The office of Medical Education fostered the development of these programmes by providing an administrative home and technical as well as scholastic support. All these courses were significantly revamped with updating and modification of their duration, course contents, research component and examination pattern and focused primarily on acquisition and demonstration of clinical skills and clinical reasoning ability. The department very successfully accomplished this huge task in a short span of time and now has effectively implemented the courses in M.Phil Programme in Basic Medical Sciences (10 Disciplines), 2 Years Postgraduate Medical Diploma Programmes (12 Disciplines), 4 Years Degree Programmes (BSc. Hons.) in 14 disciplines of Allied Health Sciences in the accredited medical and dental institutes. Recently a new subject of Behavioural Sciences has been introduced into the curriculum of all Medical, Dental and Allied Health Sciences programmes at both undergraduate and post graduate level. Also, Department of Medical Education, with the cooperation of relevant subject specialists from affiliated medical institutes and HEC Foreign Faculty, is currently working on the development of curricula for postgraduate clinical sciences in different Master of Surgery (MS) and Doctor of Medicine (MD) programmes.

Department of Medical Education is also in deep liaison with other Universities Departments of Medical Education at National and International levels.

Department of Medical Education is taking candid interest in the quality assurance in Medical Education. For this, last workshop had been designed with the title of; "Quality Assurance in Medical Education"

The Cell of Continuous Professional Development and Audit (CPDA) has a close IT link with multiple resource centers for facilitations of research activities, project proposal writing, and investigation work. Example is establishment of Research Resource Center for Undergraduates at PMC, Faisalabad, under guidance of Department of Medical Education, UHS, Lahore.

Department of Medical Education has also designed and implemented Continuing Medical Education Programme through Continuous Professional Development Cell. This Cell is introducing the concept of CME/CPD in Pakistan and establishes a highly flexible, friendly, and facilitatory system of CME/CPD for teachers and trainers.

Future Plans

• More workshops are being planned for training examiners in the new evaluation and assessment system
• Currently the department is actively engaged in developing curricula in 13 Disciplines of MD Programmes and 13 Disciplines of MS Programmes in Clinical Sciences
• Medical Education Departments are being facilitated at newly affiliated institutions and colleges of UHS.
• M.Phil and Masters Programmes in Medical Education have been approved.

Facilities
One room has been designated for the office of Director Medical Education. One main hall with partition into seven cabins has been specified for Departmental Staff. One workshop room is also specified to Department with all facilities to conduct workshops/meetings.
Department of Medical Education at UHS has a complete separate book section in Main UHS Library which has books on medical education. A requisition of about 200 books for the department has also been approved and under process of purchase.

Staff

• Professor I. A. Naveed. Head, Department of Medical Education
• Mr. Saqib Qamar. Audio Visual Operator