Earlier Prof. Dr. Mohammad Hafizullah, Vice Chancellor, KMU while delivering the welcome address has said that the current mode of instruction in the medical colleges of the country has been in practice for the past 50 years. It is an annual base system where evaluation of the students is carried out at the end of the year. Because there is no evaluation and assessment before that, students have not much incentives and compulsion to study during the year and they then concentrate on their studies in the last four to six weeks just before the annual examinations.
Prof. Hafizullah said that keeping in view the drawback of annual system in most of the institutions other than medical, the annual system has been replaced by semester system. In the semester system the course is divided into various modules. Both the teachers and students have to work according to a very strict and regular time table both for studies and evaluation.
He said KMU intends to start the semester system in its affiliated medical and dental institutions, taking advantages from the experience of Dow University of Health Sciences which has started the semester system in its constituent medical colleges.
He emphasized the objectives of the symposium and thanked the facilitators from Dow University of Health Sciences and the participants of the symposium. At the end of the symposium the participants agreed to work towards the implementation of the semester system in their colleges.
