Prof. Dr. Irshad Hussain Qureshi MBBS, Dipcard, FCPS, MD Professor of Medicine

Brief History & Introduction

North Medical Unit is the latest addition in the medical department of Mayo hospital. It was created in 1970. Prof. Dr. Ahmed Ali was its first unit head. At present this unit is headed by Prof. Dr. Irshad Hussain who joined this ward on 27/12/2008. At present it has 60 beds. 29 postgraduate trainees and 34 house officers are working in this unit. At present there are 5 senior registrars and 1 Assistant professor.

The unit handles medical emergency patients 36 hours a week and offers outpatient services twice a week.

Faculty List

1. Prof. Dr. Irshad Hussain Qureshi, Professor of Medicine MBBS (K.E), FCPS (Pakistan) Dipcard, MD (USA)

2. Dr. Imran Mehfooz FCPS (Med) is Assistant Professor

3. Dr. Naeem Afzal FCPS (Med) is senior registrar

4. Dr. Aneeqa Mansoor MCPS (Med), FCPS (Med) is senior registrar

5. Dr. Asif Mehmood FCPS (Med) is senior registrar

6. Dr. Ch. Adnan FCPS (Med) is senior registrar

7. Dr. Asim Hameed FCPS (Med) is senior registrar

8. Dr. Shafqat Rasool Registrar


List of Postgraduate Programs

1. FCPS (med)

2. MD

3. MRCP

List of Postgraduate Trainees

Dr. M. Zubair

Dr. Sajjad Ahmed

Dr. Atif Majeed Qureshi

Dr. Sohaib

Dr. Waqas Farooq

Dr. Ali Awais

Dr. Fatima Qurat-ul-Ain

Dr. Maroosh Mumtaz

Dr. Atif Maqbool

Dr. Sadia Jabeen

Dr. Asma Malik

Dr. Shafqat Rasool

Dr. Hafiz Salman Ali

Dr. Samara

Dr. Hafiz Sajid Jehangir

Dr. Hina Akhtar

Dr. Salman Kazmi

Dr. Javaid Iqbal

Dr. Majid Bashir

Dr. M. Farooq

Dr. M. Nadeem

Dr. Rutaba Kiran

Dr. Hafsa Ahmed

Dr. M. Aslam

Dr. Talha Munir

Dr. Arshad Sehrai

Dr. Zafar-ullah Khan

Dr. Jamil Ahmed

Dr. M. Shahid

Dr. Ghulam Rehmani

Dr. Beenish Safdar


Undergraduate programmes

1. 3rd years MBBS.

2. 4TH year MBBS.

3. Final year MBBS.

House officers and postgraduate students for FCPS, MRCP and MD are taught at the beside, on rounds and in clinical meeting on a daily basis. An elaborate teaching program has raised the merit of the unit form number 4 to 2 amongst the house officers in the recent selection. A regular postgraduate teaching program is carried out with structured training towards higher examinations. A variety of books and journals are available on line. They are encouraged to use the guidelines for medical management of emergency and admitted cases which has been developed by the unit.

List of Ongoing Research Projects

Following is the list of research projects currently ongoing in the North Medical Ward

• Comparison of complications and short term mortality between occult diabetes and stress glycemia in patients with acute coronary syndrome. (Dr. Naeem SR)

• Frequency of carotid atherosclerosis in patients with electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy. (Dr. Zubair PGR)

• Frequency of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in patients of liver cirrhosis with hypoalbuminemia. (Dr. Sajjad PGR)

• Prevalence of asymptomatic peripheral arterial disease in patients of ischemic CVA. (Dr. Shafqat PGR)

• Sensitivity of pleural biopsy in the diagnosis of tuberculous pleural effusion. (Dr. M. Farooq PGR)


Services

The North Medical Ward regular care of out patients twice a week and. 36 hours emergency on call once a week. There is a 1 in 4 Rota of special Sunday emergency on call.

1. Acute medical and out patients admission are managed.

2. State of the art endoscopic facilities are available.

3. Regular upper and lower GI endoscopies are carried out twice weekly.

4. Procedures like sclerotherapy and band legation are carried out as necessary.

5. The unit not only caters for its admitted and out patients but entertains call for other departments.

6. Regular teaching is carried during these procedures to the attending PG and house officer on duty in the section.

7. Bronchoscopy is carried off in patients on demand basis.

Learning Facilities

The ward is provided with following learning facilities:

• A Computer Lab having 3 PC’s with internet connection provided by KEMCANA.

• One laptop is also available for preparing lectures for PG’s. (Multimedia will also be available soon)

• There is a ward library equipped with all the major medical books and major journals.