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H.E. Babar Amin and Mr. Philip Pigou
High Commissioner Babar Amin meets CEO Australian Medical Council Philip Pigou for establishment of Examination Centres in Pakistan
The Australian Medical Council (AMC) is an independent national standards and assessment body for medical education and training. It was established in 1985. Mr Philip Pigou joined the AMC in January 2018 from his role as CEO of the Medical Council of New Zealand, succeeding Mr Ian Frank AM who was end his three-decade term of the AMC at the end of 2017.
On Thursday, 13th December 2018 the High
Commissioner for Pakistan H.E. Mr. Babar Amin met Mr. Philip Pigou, Chief
Executive Officer of Australian Medical Council (AMC) in Canberra to discuss
establishing its examination centres in Pakistan.
The High Commissioner
Babar Amin informed Mr. Philip Pigou the CEO AMC, about Pakistan’s medical
education system that has produced medical professionals of international
standards, who were serving with great dedication and distinction all over the
world including USA, UK, Canada and Australia. He highlighted that the
unavailability of AMC’s Examination Centres for foreign medical graduates, in
Pakistan, however, deprived most of Pakistani doctors the opportunity to appear
for the Australian Exam.
The
High Commissioner Mr. Babar Amin proposed to the AMC to establish its
examination centres in Pakistan taking into consideration Pakistan’s population
of 207 million and its large pool of qualified and able doctors. He assured the
CEO that the High Commission would facilitate AMC in this
endeavour.
Mr.
Philip Pigou, CEO, AMC stated that his office would certainly explore the
possibility of conducting MCQS (Part-I) of AMC Exam, in Pakistan, through its
partner agency. He agreed to discuss the matter further after doing some more
background work by the AMC.
