ISLAMABAD — LAHORE: The University of Health Sciences (UHS) has launched a province-wide digital platform, PRIME, to bring medical and health professions education, clinical training and competency assessment under an integrated monitoring system. Provincial Minister for Specialized Healthcare and Medical Education Khawaja Salman Rafique inaugurated the platform at a ceremony held at UHS on Friday.
Titled Health Professions Education – Progress, Research, Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation (HPE-PRIME), the initiative aims to improve transparency, accountability and quality assurance through digital monitoring and competency-based assessment. The platform will initially cover postgraduate medical and dental training, with its first phase encompassing approximately 3,300 MS, MD and MDS trainees enrolled in 33 training institutions across Punjab. Around 1,100 supervisors will also be registered on the portal. It will replace conventional paper-based logbooks with electronic records of clinical cases, procedures, attendance, rotations, research activities and workplace-based assessments.
Supervisors will be able to verify trainees’ clinical and academic activities, provide feedback and monitor their progress, while institutional dashboards will enable UHS to oversee training standards and identify deficiencies.