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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).
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