Lahore, Pakistan Medical Association has held Pakistan Medical and Dental Council responsible for the deteriorating standard of medical education in the country. Pakistan Medical and Dental Council have recently decreased the ratio of teaching staff for students in medical colleges and lowered it considerably to a level which would badly affect the standard and quality of medical education at the 108 public and private sector medical colleges of the country, office-bearers of Pakistan Medical Association alleged.
“If the decision is not taken back then in the years to come our medical colleges would be producing quacks instead of quality doctors” they added. According to the rules and regulations laid down by PMDC, the minimum standards of the students and teachers ratio had mentioned that there should be 1 professor, 2 associate professors, 3 assistant professors and 10 demonstrators for teaching 100 students for each subject. And for a total class of 300 students there should be 3 professors, 6 associate professors, 9 assistant professors and 30 demonstrators to teach one subject like anatomy and as many are required for other subjects like physiology, biochemistry and so on.
That’s why Pakistan was producing world class doctors and today the top physicians and surgeons across the world belonged to Pakistan, said office-bearers of Pakistan Medical Association. They further maintained that the PMDC had decreased the criterion for the minimum requirement of teachers and students ratio in medical colleges and now for 300 students in a class the college administration just requires 1 professor, 2 associate professors, 3 assistant professors and 16 demonstrators.