KARACHI – The 48th Annual Symposium of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) with the theme ‘Health Profession and Community Understandings and Misunderstandings’ will begin on Monday.
Federal Health Secretary Nargis Sethi will open the three-day event. Its inaugural ceremony will be followed by a scientific exhibition and plenary session. The plenary session would include guest lectures – ‘Myths and Facts of Medical Profession’ by Pakistan Medical Association President Dr Idris Adhi and ‘Society Decline and Frustration – Expectations’ by senior journalist Ghazi Salahuddin.
A dialogue – ‘Face to Face’- focussing on ‘Health Profession and Community Understanding and Misunderstanding’ will follow the lectures. Justice (retd) Ghous Mohammad will be the adjudicator and Dr Seemin Jamali the moderator at the session ‘Face to Face’ with Prof Liaquat Ali, Dr Misbah ul Aziz, Prof Shershah Syed and Dr Qaiser Sajjad as panellists representing the medical community.
Mazhar Abbas, Fasal Qureishi and Huma Bukari would represent the media. The plenary session would be chaired by Prof Mussarat Hussain and Prof Asadullah Khan and Dr Abid Mahmood will be its co-chairman and secretary, respectively. The second day of the event will include different sessions on medicine and allied subjects as gastroenterology, dermatology, hematology and rheumatology, nephrology, pulmonology, and cardiology.
There will be invited talks by Prof Nasim Salahuddin (Rational use of antibiotic in medical practice) and Prof Kamran Hameed (An update on rheumatology) in each of these sessions followed by scientific papers sessions and poster presentations.
Sessions on Radiology/Radiotherapy/Oncology; Anaesthesia: Pain Management/Critical Care; ENT/EYE/Fascioplastic; Neuroscience: Neurosurgery/ Neuromedicine/ Psychiatry; BMSI: Physiology /Biochemistry / Pharmacology; BMSI: Pathology/ Microbiology/Clinical Pathology/ Microbiology/ Clinical Pathology are also scheduled for Tuesday.
Each of these sessions will comprise invited talks by seasoned medical experts. Scientific paper presentations and poster presentations on issues related to each of the mentioned subjects will also be integral of these sessions.
The programme for the second day will also include a session on nursing and paramedics. It will be chaired by Dr Pamela Marshal of the Nursing College of the Dow University of Health Sciences.
Scientific papers to be presented by nurses and paramedics will include Community Participation in Solid Waste Disposal; Health Literacy; Knowledge, Experience and Attitude of Teachers and Staff of Child Care Centre towards Child Growth and Development; Prevalence of Physical Violence Against Nurses at Emergency Units in Tertiary Care Hospitals; The History of Male Nursing; Understanding Health in
Cultural Communities and Proportion of Nosocomial Infections Among the
Patients Admitted to the Neurosurgery Department, JPMC. The third day of the programme would include two sessions on surgery and allied subjects as colorectal/ gastroenterology/laparoscopy and urology/orthopaedic/plastic/trauma.
There will also be two separate sessions on gynaecology and obstetrics with invited talks on Challenges for Postgraduate Education in gynaecology and obstetrics by Prof Rahat Qureishi; Prevention of Gynaecological Cancer by Prof Saadia Aziz and CIN -Calposcopic Guided Treatment by Prof Sadia Ahsan Pal.
The third session of medicine and allied of the event is also scheduled to be held on Wednesday with the focus on endocrinology. It will be chaired by Prof Naeemul Haq. Prof Tasnim Ahsan and Prof Abdul Jabbar will deliver the invited talks on Approach to Gynaecomastia and Subclinical Thyroid Dysfunction.
JPMC’s 48th Annual Symposium kicks off today
