AFTER PASSING FINAL YEAR (M.B.;B.S.)
& The House Job

AFTER PASSING FINAL YEAR (M.B.;B.S.)

After graduating from a recognized Pakistani medical college or university, a doctor is given provisional registration by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, or PMDC as a new doctor.

THE HOUSE JOB

The “house job” follows soon after the final year result and lasts for one year. It actually consists of two separate house jobs that last 6 months each. The house jobs are offered in all the major specialties, for example Medicine, Surgery, ENT etc… as well as the subspecialties like Cardiology, Dermatology, etc… Of all the specialties on offer, the Medicine and Surgery ones are the most competitive and allow only the best of each graduating class.

Getting into a house job in the hospital(s) associated with your medical college depends on the marks you’ve obtained in your final year. For example, currently in Khyber Teaching Hospital, there are 40 medicine and surgery rotations offered first to the top 40 students of the graduating class. If some of those top 40 decline a medicine and surgery rotation (6 months in medicine and 6 months in surgery), then the students below them in the merit list are accommodated in their place.

There are also positions in medicine and surgery in the other teaching hospitals in Peshawar, namely Lady Reading Hospital and Hayatabad Medical Complex. You are also eligible to apply for positions in other hospitals in Pakistan, but it must be kept in mind that hospitals affiliated with medical colleges/universities will give their own graduates priority and give outsiders a place only when the house job positions are not filled by their own graduates.

For those hospitals not affiliated with a medical college/university, the general criterion for formulating a merit list is often an entry test.

When the house job is completed, the provisional  registration becomes permanent and the doctor is recognized by the PMDC as a Registered Medical Practitioner (RMP).