Editorials, addresses, and arguments.

2023

Medical Education

1 September 2023 · 8 min read

Annals of King Edward Medical University / FJMU Editorial

The Utility of Big Data in Medical Education

An editorial on what large administrative datasets can — and cannot — tell us about how we train Pakistani doctors.

We have, at last, the data. Examination outcomes, attendance logs, supervisor ratings, departmental throughput — every modern training programme generates a small ocean of administrative residue. The question is no longer whether we can collect it, but whether we have the institutional courage to act on what it tells us.

2023

Women in Medicine

14 August 2023 · 12 min read

Convocation, Fatima Jinnah Medical University

Convocation Address — FJMU, 2023

On a century of training Pakistan's women physicians, and the unfinished work ahead.

When this institution opened its doors in 1948, it did so with a particular kind of ambition: that the new republic's daughters would become its physicians, in a quantity and at a quality the subcontinent had not yet seen. We have made good on that ambition. The work is not yet done.

2022

Postgraduate Reform

15 November 2022 · 10 min read

JCPSP Editorial

From Time to Competence: Reforming Surgical Training in Pakistan

Why the next generation of FCPS surgeons will not be measured by years served.

For four decades the structure of CPSP surgical training has been governed by time. Seven years of supervised practice, two examinations, a fellowship. The shape of that training has not been seriously revisited since. The question this editorial poses is whether time, alone, has ever been a fair proxy for competence.