Inam Muhammad Baig.
Perceptions about the standards of medical graduates in Pakistan: a brief literature review..
J Pak Med Assoc Jan ;70(7):1248-50.

Undergraduate medical education in Pakistan appears to be in turmoil due to various problems. One of the main reasons is the rapid growth of private medical colleges in a short period of time to meet the increasing national demands of doctors but without proper measures for standard maintenance and quality assurance. However, original research verification of a gross decline in standards is lacking. Efforts to reform the system cannot find credibility in the absence of evidence. We can begin with simply interviewing senior consultants in tertiary care teaching hospitals in Pakistan to see if they perceive differences in standards of medical graduates from various medical colleges to obtain such evidence. This short communication aims to provide a brief literature review of the perceptions about the standards of medical graduates and undergraduate medical education already published in the last two decades in less validated forms.

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