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Diploma in Psychological Medicine (DPM) at Postgraduate Medical Institute, Lahore

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ijaz Haider
Ijaz Haider*
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Postgraduate Medical Institute, 6 Birdwood Road, Lahore-3, Pakistan
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There are only 130 psychiatrists in Pakistan for a population of 95 million and they are stationed at major cities where only 15% of the population of the country resides. The foreign trained psychiatrists, mostly in the UK, are attached to the departments of psychiatry of medical schools in major cities and are not willing to go to rural areas where 85% of the population lives. Thus there is an acute shortage of psychiatrists at district headquarter hospitals (DHQ) in rural areas.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 19 , Issue 7 , July 1995 , pp. 446 - 447
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