The Academic Programmes

PhD Nuclear Medicine
The Department of Medical Sciences of PIEAS also offers PhD based on the research work in application of radiation in medicine. The programme is targeted toward medical graduates who have completed MSc in the related fields or alternatively enroll into MSc leading to PhD in the department. PhD thesis requires an international review and minimum 3 publications in reputed journals.

MS Nuclear Medicine
The MS Nuclear Medicine is oldest programme of the department initiated in 1988. Nuclear medicine is the use of unsealed sources of radioactive material primarily as a diagnostic procedure. The radioactivity is administered into the patient usually intravenously. Other routes like oral ingestion or; subcutaneous, intradermal, intrathecal or arterial injections are also used. The patients are then imaged under gamma camera which is the diagnostic tool of nuclear physicians. The techniques of nuclear medicine have improved tremendously over the past two decades. The fusion technology of PET-CT and SPECT-CT is also introduced in Pakistan. Nuclear medicine has also a small but significant role in therapy. The doctors trained in this department are given basic knowledge and hand-on training in all these techniques.

Course Contents (Nuclear Medicine)

MS Radiation & Medical Oncology
The MS Radiation and Medical Oncology commenced in 2008 to overcome the dearth of oncologists in PAEC cancer hospitals and rest of Pakistan in general. The physicians completing this programme qualify in basics and clinical aspects of oncology to diagnosis as well as are made able to use radiation sources for teletherapy like cobalt-60 machine and linear accelerators. They are also trained well to use chemotherapeutic agents to treat cancers.

Course Contents (MS Radiation & Medical Oncology)

Recognitions
The MSc programmes at DMS have been recognized by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) as a post-graduate qualification equivalent to an ‘Intermediate Degree’. Examples of other qualifications recognized by PMDC at this level are: DMRT and MCPS (Radiotherapy).

MSc NM and MSc RMO are recognized as being equivalent to MPhil degree for the purpose of registration in the subsequent PhD programmes inland and abroad.

Because of the very close association of several of the leading international experts in the field with the design and implementation of the MSc programmes, it has had a high degree of visibility and acceptance in the international academic domain. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recognizing the high academic standards of this programme has sponsored fellows from Yemen, Myanmar and Sudan.

Last Updated: 26 April 2014