The management committee of PMDC has taken this decision in a meeting held here on Tuesday and also considered the pending issue of full registration of over 900 Cuban Medical graduates regarding exemption of house job in Pakistan.
The issue was discussed in details wherein Chairman and Executive Director of Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) also pleaded for full registration.
The committee after looking into complete record of the case, personally hearing the Cuban graduates and reviewing the regulatory implications, decided for conditional registration.
According to which these graduates will have to submit an affidavit. The Cuban graduates will have to accept one year registration with PM&DC.
Renewal of its registration will be subjected to the condition that he will not do independent private practice during this one year and that he will submit a certificate of competence by a specialist doctor registered with PM&DC underwhom he has worked during this one year.
The meeting decided that after receipt of competence report of one year by applicants/specialists as per affidavit, the PM&DC will issue full registration to Cuban graduates for five years.
The Cuban graduates welcomed this decision which was also supported by the HEC.