ABOUT eDOCTOR

About eDoctor

eDoctor is the most innovative tele health education and training project in Pakistan launched as a joint venture by a global educational technology platform M/S Educast, which is a leading Virtual Training and TeleHealth platform with Dow University of Health Sciences.

An Education Technology based program for the empowerment of all such lady doctors who could not continue with their medical profession due to domestic or societal circumstances.
The project is headed by Prof Dr, Jehan Ara Hassan Pro Vice Chancellor DUHS and Ms Seher Abdullah, director human resource and coordination, Educast.

The synopsis of the project is as under

  1. Govt of Pakistan spends substantial amount on getting a single Doctor graduate.( Rs 10 million per doctor for 5 year education and house job) ( $ 36,000)
  2. Since years the intake of Public and Private Medical Institutions in Pakistan has been more than 70% as Female Students
  3. After passing out 80% of these female doctors leave medical profession due to their domestic issues and family priorities
  4. Causing huge gap in demand of female medical officer in country and also a great loss in form of the cost born to get them educated.
  5. A rough study by independent surveyors indicated in 1989 quota was abolished for Male: female admission in medical institutions, about 30,000 plus graduate female doctors opted not to join health profession.
  6. Irony is that if these out of practice licensed female graduate doctors want to resume in health services, they are not allowed, due to regulatory rules, at times they are asked to go back to take fresh admission.
  7. So there was no way to get these people back in medical profession

But with

  • Advent of social media and its usage,
  • Lowering the cost of high speed broadband,
  • Access to smart phones and possibility of global affordable connectivity

It is now possible to get these Out of practice female doctors get reintegrated through updating them with latest knowledge of health care in their field of interest,

Also train them with latest ICT tools like Telemedicine and Mobile Health to enable them to provide basic healthcare advisory even from their home.

Jointly the project was launched in 2016 with following objectives

1. To seek attention from all such out of work female doctors who are willing to take a Virtual /Online Certification program of 6 months enabling them to get updated knowledge in various fields under certification with 30 CME contact hours as “Family Medicine Certificate”:
2. To deliver lectures leading faculty was assigned by DUHS academic team.

Educast invested substantially in establishing virtual teaching platform, call center and data center, through academic support a multimedia video recording and editing lab was established where to treat the recorded content before airing them.

Launched it, resulting a huge response, enabling the sponsors to start the project with zeal.

During the first few batches, it was revealed that out of these 30,000….. The launch of consecutive batches attracted many home based Pakistani Doctors from Middle East, North America. UK, Australia, Germany, Malaysia, Singapore, India and Greece etc.