Student led activity is an advanced form of Medical Education. Opportunities to enhance such activities are scarce in Pakistan. This devoids intelligent and able students of chance to grow and show their talents.
Muhammad Medical College is acutely aware of this problem. This is why it places due importance to initial and advanced medical education. Once the students are advanced enough, it allows them to take part in educational activities as teachers and researchers for their training.
As part of promoting students to grow into future doctors and medical educationists, MMC organizes several formal and informal activities every year. This year also, MMC organized a 2 day long Mini Symposium and Seminar in Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
On Wednesday the 3rd of July, the Annual Mini Symposium was held for the 7th Year in succession. The theme of these symposia has been “students –as-teachers”. Students were divided into groups of 4 students each, and were given tasks to educate fellow students and others, including their own teachers. Topics included a variety of important medical and surgical problems. Students were invited to talk about their topics to the audience, which included fellow senior medical students junior doctors and senior clinicians. With the help of multimedia presentations, one student of every group talked about the topics. This was followed by questions and answers and lively discussion among the presenters and participants. Students also presented their topics in the form of scientific posters and presented their topics to the other students and to a group of independent judges, comprising senior clinicians.
The next day, the 4th of July, Mirpurkhas Seminar in Gastroenterology and Hepatology was held. This is the 12th consecutive year that Muhammad Medical College & Hospital has been holding this seminar. Senior clinicians presented high quality updates on important topics of medicine, surgery, gynae and paeds which were related to Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Programme started with recitation from the Holy Quran by Vice Principal of the college Professor Dr. Shamsul Arfeen Khan. Professor Dr. Syed Zafar Abbas a gave an introduction of the programme to the audience. A large number of senior medical students, junior doctors, senior clinicians and teachers attended the seminar
Late on various senior Professors distributed prizes to students and all the speakers were presented with shields and certificates.
