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NUMS Postgraduate Certificate in Palliative Care Program (PGCPC)
Academic Calendar – Session 2022/23
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January 2023 |
Feburary 2023 |
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Introduction /LMS training |
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Dec 9 Fri |
Course 1 Week 1 |
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Dec 10 Sat |
Jan 11 Wed |
Feb 11 Sat |
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Internal Assessment course 1 and 2 |
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Jan 12 Thu |
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Week 10 |
March 12sun |
Week 14 |
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Dec 12 Mon |
Jan 13 Fri |
Course 2
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Jan 18 Wed |
Feb 18 Sat |
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Dec 17 Sat |
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Week 15
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Dec 18 Sun |
Week 2 |
Jan 19 Thu |
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Dec 20 Tue |
Jan 21 Sat |
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Dec 21 Wed |
Jan 22 Sun |
Week 7 |
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Jan 24 Tue |
Feb 24 Fri |
Course 3
Week 12 |
March 24 Fri |
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Dec 24 Sat |
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Jan 25 Wed |
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Dec 25 Sun |
Week 3 |
Jan 26 Thu |
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March 26 Sun |
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Jan 27 Fri |
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Week 8 |
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Dec 31 Sat |
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April 2023 |
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June 2023 |
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April 1 Sat |
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May 1 Mon |
Week 19 |
June 1 Thu |
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April 2 Sun |
Week 17 |
May 2 Tue |
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April 3 Mon |
May 3 Wed |
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June 4 Sun |
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April 5 Wed |
May 5 Fri |
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Week 20
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April 7 Fri |
Course 4
Week 18
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June 10 Sat |
2nd Internal assessment (Course 3 and 4) |
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April 8 Sat |
May 8 Mon |
Final Assessment Course 1-4
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April 13 Thu |
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April 14 Fri |
EIDULFITR BREAK |
May 14 Sun |
Week 21
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April 20 Thu |
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April 21 Fri |
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April 27 Thu |
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April 28 Fri |
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May 28 Sun |
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April 29 Sat |
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April 30 Sun |
Week 19 |
May 30 Tue |
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May 3 Wed |
Name pf applicants:
- Muhammad Sohaib Nadim
- MUHAMMAD NOMAN
- NAJMA PERVEEN
- Hamna Wajid
- Aamira ali
- Abdur Rehman
- Ali Shakeel
- amna khan
- Dr. Neelofur Malik
- Farhan zeb
- Farrukh Zulfiqar
- Fatima Ajmal
- Hasan Mukhtar
- Muhammad Arslan Naseer
- Muhammad Asad Ullah Awan
- Shafqat ali
- sidra khan
- talha Mazhar
- Mewhish kanwal
- Dr Shazia
- Rizwana Naz
- tayyab Ijaz
Name pf applicants:
- Ali Nadeem
- ujala ali
- Bushra Iftikhar
- Daman-e-Zehra
- Dr Muhammad Siddique
- Dr sana jamil
- Dr Zeeshan Rasool
- Dr. Hira Shafqat
- Dr. Syed Naeemullah
- Dr.Bharat Kumar
- Humza
- Ibrar khan
- Muhammad Shahzeb
- Nasser Ali Malik
- Noorulain Ali
- Rana Muhammad Shoaib
- Salman Yaqoob
- Sania Naz
- talha bin fazal
- ZOHAIB MASOOD
- Hajra.siddiqua
- Khalid Nafees
- Madiha.Mustafa
Faculty |
Designation |
Qualification |
Dr Muhammad A Butt |
Consultant Oncologist UK |
MBBS, MRCP, FRCP |
Dr Muhammad Saeed |
Consultant Palliative Care KSA |
MD, FACP, CMD |
Dr Humaira Jamal |
Consultant Palliative Care |
MBBS, PhD, FRCP |
Dr Qamar Abas |
Medical Director, St Clare’s Hospice, UK |
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Dr Fawad Ahmed |
Consultant Palliative Care KSA |
MBBS, FRCP |
Dr Tayyaba Irshad |
Consultant Palliative Care USA |
MBBS, MRCGP |
Dr Farhan Zahid Khawaja |
Consultant oncologist UK |
MBBS, FCPS,MRCPI |
Dr Maimoona |
Senior Registrar Palliative Care UK |
MRCP |
Dr Sadaf Mudassir |
Founder- SPPP, GP-UK |
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CORE Faculty /Tutors of NUMS PGCPC NATIONAL
Faculty |
Designation |
Qualification |
Dr Nafisa Tahir |
Professor of Medicine NUMS |
MBBS FCPS |
Dr Rimsha Azhar |
Assisrtant Professor of Medicine NUMS |
MBBS FCPS |
Dr Bilal Malik
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Consultant Dermatologist UK
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MBBS,Certified palliative care physician |
Tutors/Faculty of Live Lectures PGCPC -2022
Core Team Tutors mentioned above plus following faculty
Faculty |
Designation |
Dr Haroon Hafeez |
Consultant Oncologist SKH Lahore |
Dr James Grose |
Onsultant palliative care, UK |
Dr Nicky Bailhache |
MBChB, MRCGP, |
Dr Zafar Javed |
Consultant Palliative Care UAE |
NUMS Post-Graduate Certificate in Palliative Care (PG-CPC) - Course Timeline
Pc 301
Session 2022-23, 2nd Batch
8th dec 2022 |
Introductory Session with students Tutorial on Moodle |
Dr. Nafisa Tahir Dr Rimsha Azhar Aqsa ARSHAD |
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Introduction to the certificate/curriculum/assessment methods |
Dr. Nafisa Tahir Dr ayaz butt Dr sadaf |
Course 1: Introduction to Palliative Care
Learning Objectives: At the end of this module, the participants will be able to:
- Identify the concept of palliative care and its role in management of illness
- Apply the principles of palliative care to manage pain by pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches
- Understand the challenges of breaking bad news
- Recognize factors contributing to the prognosis of various life limiting illnesses, recognize EOL and trajectory events referred to as actively dying or imminent death
- Define code status and understand principles of DNA CPR
- Making the decisions about commencing an end of life care plan.
Course 1 |
Course breakdown |
Dates |
Weeks |
Topics |
Facilitators |
PC-301
Introduction to Palliative Care |
Palliative Care
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9TH DEC-15 DEC |
Week 1 |
Introduction to Palliative Care, Palliative History and Examination |
Humaira Jamal |
16TH DEC-22 DEC |
Week 2 |
Communication skills, Breaking Bad news (Part 1 and Part 2) |
Shagufta Mirza Khalique Rehman |
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23 DEC-29TH DEC |
Week 3 |
Cancer Pain Management |
Adnan Kabir |
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Advanced Pain Management |
Mohammad Butt |
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Palliative Oncology |
Mohammad Butt |
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Experience of the end of life
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30th dec-5th jan 2023 |
Week 4 |
Care of the dying |
Adnan Kabir Elisabeth Bjorndal |
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6th jan-12th jan |
Week 5 |
End of Life Care |
Mohammad Butt |
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How Long I have got Doc? |
Humaira Jamal |
1. Description of Course & Scheme of Study
This will be a 26-week certificate program.
- 24-week self-study model with synchronous online sessions : This program comprises of prerecorded video lectures by palliative care /oncology experts and interactive online teaching sessions.
- Online learning of 24 weeks is conducted via NUMS digital e-learning portal, accessible to faculty and participants through their personal accounts.
- A hybrid workshop on communication skill is conducted at NUMS campus. In this workshop participants from Rawalpindi and Islamabad participate physically whereas rest of the participant participate through zoom link.
2. Curriculum Outline:
The basics and advance management of palliative care will be divided into 4 modules.
- Introduction to Palliative Care
- Ethical issues at the end of life
- Public health and palliative care
- Symptom management
This certificate program is of 12 credit hours; details are given in the table below.
Course Code |
Course (Each course of 6 weeks) |
Credit Hours |
PC – 301 |
Introduction to Palliative Care |
3 |
PC – 302 |
Ethical issues at the end of life |
3 |
PC – 303 |
Public Health and Palliative Care |
3 |
PC – 304 |
Symptom Management |
3 |
Total Credit Hours |
12 |
Online Contact Session Once in a week
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Self-study Pre-recorded lectures, case studies, forum discussion, reading material and assignments |
Online Contact Session Once in a week
(Lecture or chat box)
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Online Contact Session Once in a week
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Course 1 |
Course 2 |
Course 3 |
Course 4 |
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Weeks |
5 weeks (3 credit hrs)
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6 weeks (3 credit hrs) |
Weeks |
6 weeks (3 credit hrs) |
7 weeks (3 credit hrs) |
Duration |
9th Dec 2022-12th Jan 2023 |
13th Jan 2023-23rd feb 2023 |
Duration |
24th feb 2023-6th april 2023 |
7thapril 2023-8th jun 2023 |
NUMS Post-Graduate Certificate in Palliative Care (PG-CPC)
Learning Objectives & Program Outline
Module 1: Introduction to Palliative Care
Learning Objectives: At the end of this module, the participants will be able to:
- Identify the concept of palliative care and its role in management of illness
- Apply the principles of palliative care to manage pain by pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches
- Understand the challenges of breaking bad news
- Recognize factors contributing to the prognosis of various life limiting illnesses, recognize EOL and trajectory events referred to as actively dying or imminent death
- Define code status and understand principles of DNA CPR
- Making the decisions about commencing an end of life care plan.
Course 1 |
Course breakdown |
Dates |
Weeks |
Topics |
Facilitators |
PC-301
Introduction to Palliative Care |
Palliative Care
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9TH DEC-15 DEC |
Week 1 |
Introduction to Palliative Care, Palliative History and Examination |
Humaira Jamal |
16TH DEC-22 DEC |
Week 2 |
Communication skills, Breaking Bad news (Part 1 and Part 2) |
Shagufta Mirza Khalique Rehman |
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23 DEC-29TH DEC |
Week 3 |
Cancer Pain Management |
Adnan Kabir |
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Advanced Pain Management |
Mohammad Butt |
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Palliative Oncology |
Mohammad Butt |
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Experience of the end of life
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30th dec-5th jan 2023 |
Week 4 |
Care of the dying |
Adnan Kabir Elisabeth Bjorndal |
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6th jan-12th jan |
Week 5 |
End of Life Care |
Mohammad Butt |
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How Long I have got Doc? |
Humaira Jamal |
Module 2: Ethical issues at the end of life
Learning Objectives: At the end of this module, the participants will be able to:
- Understand the ethical issues towards the end of life and relevant choice of treatments
- Understand the Golden standard framework and its relevance to local practices, principles of peri-death care with cultural sensitivities
- Provide and verify a death certificate
- Inform relatives with empathy, referral to coroner/funeral services according to local rules
- Recognize stages of grief and depression
- Look after oneself, practice resilience and guide carers
- Navigate through the difficult journey
Course Code / Course Title |
Course breakdown |
Dates |
Weeks |
Topics |
Facilitators |
PC-302
Ethical issues at the end of life |
Ethics in palliative care
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13th January-19 january |
Week 6 |
Ethical Issues |
Iqtedar Muazzam |
Gold standard Framework |
Liz Dorey |
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20th January-26th january |
Week 7 |
Advanced Care Planning |
Mohammad Butt |
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Nutrition and hydration at EOL |
Maimona Ali |
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Bereavement Symposium
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27th January-2 February |
Week 8 |
Bereavement and Grief |
Mohammad Saeed |
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Care of the carers |
Abid Raza |
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3rd Feb-9th feb |
Week 9 |
Self-Care |
Mohammad Butt |
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Well-being and Resilience |
Farhan Zahid Khawaja |
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Care after Death
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10th-16th feb |
Week 10 |
Death verification, death certification and cremation certificates |
Fawad Ahmad |
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Post Death Conversation |
Sadaf Muddassar |
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17th feb-23rd feb |
Week 11 |
Religious and Cultural issues |
Mohammad Butt |
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MCQ Assessment |
Module 3: Public Health Aspects
Learning Objectives: At the end of this module, the participants will be able to:
- Understand the relevance of health inequalities and its impact on provision of healthcare.
- Integrate palliative care in cancer and other major long-term illness and how to integrate palliative care in those areas.
- Understand issues related to pediatric long term illnesses.
Course Code / Course Title |
Course breakdown |
Dates |
Weeks |
Topics |
Facilitators |
PC-303
Public Health Aspects in |
Public health and palliative care
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24 feb - 2nd march |
Week 12 |
Public Health and Palliative care |
Mohammad Butt |
POD |
Mohammad Butt |
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3rd march-9th march |
Week 13 |
Public Health inequalities |
Mohammad Butt |
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Living with uncertainty in non-cancer long-term illness |
10th march-16th march |
Week 14 |
Prognostication |
Tayyaba Irshad |
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17th march-23rd march |
Week 15 |
Prognostication |
Dr. Waqas Ali |
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24th march-30th march |
Week 16 |
Heart Failure |
Mohammad Butt |
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Dyspnoea/ Breathlessness |
Noori Rafique |
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Pediatric & Adolescent Palliative Care |
31st march-6th april |
Week 17 |
Palliative care for The Adolescent and Young |
Farhan Zahid Khawaja |
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Paediatric PC |
Sobia Bilal |
Module 4: Symptom Management
Learning Objectives: At the end of this module, the participants will be able to:
- Recognize and manage emergencies in palliative care, including Major hemorrhage, Hypercalcemia, Superior vena cava obstruction, Spinal cord compression, Bone fractures Anxiety/panic, and Seizures
- Develop an understanding of the principles of symptom assessment by history taking and identifying different types of symptoms taking into account the perspectives of individual patients
Course Code / Course Title |
Course breakdown |
Dates |
Weeks |
Topics |
Facilitators |
PC-304
Symptom Management In palliative care |
Management
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7th april-13th april |
Week 18 |
Palliative Care in ER |
Palwasha Khan |
Nausea and Vomiting |
Naheed Khan Lodhi |
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Constipation and Palliative care |
Naheed Khan Lodhi |
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Ramadan /eid ul fitr break 14th april-27th april |
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28th april-4th may |
Week 19 |
Management of seizure |
Waqas Ilyas |
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Hypercalcaemia |
M. Muneeb Khan |
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5th may- 11th may |
Week 20 |
Gastrointestinal Symptoms in PC |
Mateen Akhtar |
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SVCO |
Ilyas Mansoori |
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12th may-18th may |
Week 21 |
Palliative Radiotherapy-mSCC, Brain and Bone Metastasis |
Tanzeel Khalid Janjua |
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Drug Conversions |
Mamoona Ali |
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19th may -25th may |
Week 22 |
Principles of Chemotherapy and Toxicity management |
Sohail Amin |
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Extravasation management |
Waqas Ilyas |
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26th may -1stjun |
Week 23 |
Orphan symptoms |
Maimoona Ali |
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Complimentary Therapies |
Farhan Zahid Khawaja |
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Confusion and Affective States in Palliative Care
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2nd june -8th jun |
Week 24 |
Mental Health |
Amer Mukhtar |
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Confusion and restlessness |
Mohammad Butt |
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Final Assessment including all 4 courses |
Tutor:
Dr. Attia Sheikh
Participant:
- ABDUL SALAM MALIK
- ATTIYA LATIF
- FAHAD ABID
- FAYYAZ HASSAN
- HAIDER ALI
- JAVARIA MUMTAZ ALVI
- MAEIRAH SHAFIQUE
- MUHAMMAD ASIM
- NAHEED AKHTAR
- NUZHAT FIRDOUS
- RABIA KHAN
- ROMANA NOREEN
- SADAF SHAFIQUE
- SHABANA ASIF
- AMEER YASSER ZAIDI
- Islam Bano
Tutor:
Dr. Sumaira Iqbal
Participant:
- ASIM IQBAL
- GHANA SHAHID
- HASSAN MAJID BHATTI
- MIAN ROHAIL HAYAT
- MUHAMMAD ARSALAN
- MUHAMMAD TARIQ
- PROFESSOR DR. MUHAMMAD JAMIL
- RABAIL AKBAR QAZI
- TARIQ MASOOD MALIK
- YASMEEN
- ZHAUPHEEN PALWASHA
- ZILL E HUMA TARIQ
- ZUHA RIAZ
- RUBAB ZULFIQAR
- Usman Anwar
- Tahir Riaz
Tutor:
Dr. Uzma Urooj
Participant:
- AMARA NAZIR
- MADIHA IQBAL
- MUHAMMAD IQBAL
- MUHAMMAD USMAN
- NOMANA MAHMOOD SYED
- PAKIZA FATIMA
- SADAF QADEER
- SAJID SHAMIM
- SAMAN MEHMOOD
- SAMARAH NAEEM
- SARAH SHEIKH
- ZAINEB ABBAS
- Dr Noreen Adil