INTRODUCTION

Khyber Medical University has launched the MHPE program for the first time in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This program would enable the Health Professions of the country and province in particular to bring necessary changes in training of health educators in accordance with global challenges and local needs.

The MHPE degree is designed to help health educators to develop necessary skills to lead our educational enterprise through a rapidly changing health sciences environment. The program is founded on the premise that a systematic, scholarly approach is the most effective way to address educational challenges.

RATIONALE

The education of health professionals has a direct effect on improving human resources for health in support of national priorities. Worldwide, health professions education has undergone a significant change during the past few decades. The focus has moved from a scientific and technical to include a more practical and applied approach in the context of the social responsibility of medical schools and a commitment to the integration of teaching experiences and teacher development for day to day work.

New advancements in learning methods, assessment of students, curriculum design, faculty development and the evaluation of programs for health professions education have created an imperative for capacity building among the teaching staff in health professions institutions in Pakistan. Among the many possible strategies to meet this need is the development of a high level of practical and applied capacity building among a sufficient number of teachers at regional health professions institutions throughout Pakistan.

This can be achieved through an Master in Health Professions Education (MHPE) that includes advanced study and research dealing with: the development of the ability to read and apply literature from the international and national communities to local and regional situations, promotion of the capacity to develop other professors in contemporary approaches to health professions education, improvement of the conduct and organization of student assessment at all levels, and application of approaches to the rigorous evaluation of curriculum and new programs.

NEED ASSESSMENT

There exists today in Pakistani medical colleges a continuing need for specialized and advanced study in how education is best applied in national institutions. Khyber medical university also needs such dynamic educators who would improve health education perspective in this area. There is a great demand for post-graduate academic programs in this area to develop skills that could bring about this change, and develop our institutions at par with international centers. By using the experience of the professionals who conduct research and work in different institutions devoted to health professions education this program is developed. This program will be run by local faculty under guidance from international faculty and will be up to the highest standards of masters programs internationally.

COMPETENCIES

Through Master of Health Profession Education Program, an educationist should be able to perform the following in a professional way.

• Educational Psychology
• Curriculum Management
• Teaching and Learning
• Assessment
• Educational Leadership and Management
• Educational Research

PROGRAM STRUCTURE 

Program Duration 

The duration of MHPE Program is two years. The program has a total of six contact sessions. Each contact session is comprised of 10 days of face to face interactive teaching and learning. It requires the participants to study for approximately two hours of notional student effort per day. There are three contact session in a year. (Total = 6 contact sessions). After completion of course work a student will complete research work in next semester failing which he/she will give application for extension of duration. The application after recommendation of the supervisor and director will be discussed in internal faculty meeting then will be forwarded to academic council for approval. After approval the student will be bound to submit extra fee as per KMU Policy.

• 25% of current tuition fee who need one semester
• 50 % of the current fee for two semesters
• 75% of the current tuition fee for third semester
• 100 % of the current tuition fee for four or three more semesters

In case if a student has not completed his/her degree in Two (04) years he/she will give another application for extension and after following the same procedure the case will be placed before Syndicate for approval).

Credit Hours 

The program is of 36 credit hours.

Mode of Information Transfer (MIT) 

• Self-directed learning
• Directed self-learning
• Task based learning
• Role play sessions
• Workshops
• Presentations (by participants also)
• Tutorials
• Problem based learning sessions
• Assignments
• Objective Structured Teaching Examination (OSTE)

Assignments 

 There are total 18 assignments (one assignment per course). Assignments will only be given to students who will attend the contact session of the semester. They will be based on application of knowledge at higher order cognitive skills development. After attending the contact sessions, the students will be provided three months’ time for the approval of three assignments in each contact session; failing may lead to repetition of contact session. The assignments of each course will be submitted on MOODLE. It will be assessed and marked on MOODLE.

Assignment submission policy 

1. An assignment should be submitted within due date notified by the institute and will be marked out of 100 marks.
2. A second chance of submission of the assignment will be given to a student, if the assignment already submitted needs further improvement. The deadline of second submission will be notified by institute. The second submission assignment will be marked out of 70 marks.
3. Any assignment submit after due date will not be considered for marking.
4. This institute reserved the rights to change the date of submission at any time in the interest of the program.

Examination and Methods of Assessment

The students will be evaluated during each semester on the basis of:

S#	Semester	Assessment (Weight)
		Internal assessment (%)	Assignments (%)	Semester Exams (%)	Total Marks
1	I	20	50	30	100
2	II	20	50	30	100
3	III	20	50	30	100
7	Thesis				200

Master in Health Professions Education (MHPE)

• The Master in Health Professions Education (MHPE) will be granted to those students who will attend all the contact sessions, completed the assignments and getting an aggregate of 60% marks in the semesters and successfully completing the thesis work.
• Submission of an original article manuscript in HEC and PM&DC indexed journal is mandatory before defence of the MHPE thesis.

DISTRIBUTION OF SEATS: 

The distribution of seats of MHPE program are as under:-

• Open Merit 19
• Baluchistan 01
• Total Seats 20

Note: If the candidates from Baluchistan do not fill their respective reserved seats, these remaining vacant seats will be converted to open merit seats. 

FEE STRUCTURE  

 

S#	Course		Fee
		Tuition Fee	Insitutional Services Fee	Sub-Totals
1	Master in Health Profession Education (MHPE)-1st Year Fee	Rs. 210,000/-	Rs. 30,000/-	Rs. 240,000/-
2	Master in Health Profession Education (MHPE)-2nd Year Fee	Rs. 210,000/-	Rs. 30,000/-	Rs. 240,000/-
3	Thesis evaluation fee (for MHPE)	Rs. 50,000/-
4	Total Program Cost	Rs. 530,000/-

Note:

1. The students will deposit their fee yearly i.e. for three contact sessions collectively.
2. Fee deposition in installments is not allowed as per KMU Policy.
3. The fee can be increased any time as per KMU policy.
4. Other University charges apply as per rules

Fee Refund Policy (for programs based on Contact Sessions) 

• Full (100 %) Fee will be refund up to 03 days of convene of 1^st Contact Session.
• Half (50 %) Fee will be refund from 04 to 07 days of convene 1^st Contact Session.
• No Fee (0 %) will be refund from 8^th Day of 1^st Contact Session.