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Meeting Mr. Khan

Written By Student Focus on Monday | 07:04

Q1.    How are you?

Ans. I am fine Alhamdulillah.

Q2.    When did you start practicing?Ans. In 2003 started as voluntary physiotherapist at DHQ Sargodha and very small private practice in my home town ,Sargodha  but I moved to UK in the same year.

Q3.    Where did you graduated from/mother institution?
Ans. School of physiotherapy Mayo Hospital Lahore.

Q4.    Do you think it is important for a physio to be specialized?Ans. Off course , it is  a mark of maturity, recognizes clinician among the other  health care professionals. Specialized knowledge and intensive academic /clinical training are hallmark for any profession and It also helps managing patients well when they fall beyond the general practice.

Q5.    Which specialty you recommend and why?Ans. In my personal opinion , any specialty is worth having it but  I am more inclined towards Musculoskeletal medicine due to the fact there is more autonomy , critical thinking and opportunity to develop clinically.

Q6.    Have you conducted any training course so far? And what’s your interest?Ans. I have not conducted any course yet in Pakistan but I am designated clinical mentor /preceptor  for junior physiotherapist from my trust in physiotherapy . As I, practicing in Musculoskeletal physiotherapy , so I would be interested in conducting  courses in related specialty. I usually emphasize on assessments/physical examination  as that is the key to successfully managing the patient.

Q7.    What will you recommend to the students who aim to follow their career in Sports Medicine?Ans. It is very competitive specialty and highly paid, if students are planning to practice in Pakistan , they need to be aware of the opportunities  available locally .

Q8.    What is more important for a physiotherapist to have knowledge or skill?Ans. Both of these are interlinked , one cannot have skills if they do not have knowledge and vise versa. Skills are practicable application of your knowledge therefore to be a good clinician both are equally important.

Q9.    Who do you idealize in your field?Ans. Whenever I go to any new course , I start idealizing the lecturer .I do not believe idealizing a single personality and stuck on it , running water remains clean and fresh and anything which is stagnant smells the most.

Q10.    What is the best thing about physiotherapy?Ans. Enabling people to have maximum benefit out of their  lives.

Q11.    Private practice or Government house ship what is better?Ans. Gov sector has more financial stability from the day first and private practice is a struggle but there is always light at the end of tunnel.

Q12.    Do you teach? Where, if yes? If not why?Ans. I am clinical educator for undergrad  and Pre-registration MSc  physiotherapy students of  “University of Birmingham” and “Coventry University” in Musculoskeletal physiotherapy.

Q13.    What is Physiotherapy scope abroad?Ans. It really depends where are you planning to go, it varies from country to country but  overall its good.

Q14.    Any teacher you liked the most? Of which Subject?
Ans. I liked one of my Master’s teacher , Delva R Shamley, she has an amazing knowledge and teaching skills. She has taught us anatomical and physiological basis of musculoskeletal rehabilitation.

Q15.    Your favorite subject?Ans. Physiological  and mechanical basis of physiotherapy/musculoskeletal  treatment and assessment ,  it enables clinician to reason out the basis of their assessment and selection of the treatment and how can they alter the patho-machanics and physiological process to manage patient effectively.

Q16.    Did you aim for being a physiotherapist or was it by chance?Ans. I want to be honest , It  is very obvious , its purely by chance

Q17.    What personalities you are inspired from?Ans. There are many personalities who  have abilities to inspire one,  I can not single out as no one is a complete package anyway.

Q18.    Any quote you like the most and remember?
Ans.I remember some lines from a movie  , those are not less than a quote and I really believe in this “You got a dream, You got to protect it. People can't do something' themselves, they want to tell ,you  can't do it. If you want something', go get it”

Q19.     Anybody in your  family have  Physiotherapy as a profession?Ans. No

Q20.    Do you agree that Profession becomes passion or Passion becomes profession?Ans. No, I believe that  passion is something  one does for himself  and should not get paid for that. It is something which one does for the satisfaction of the soul.

Q21.    If you were not a physiotherapist what might have you been either?Ans. May be a lawyer

Q22.    What do you think where Pakistan stands in physical therapy as an essential part of health care system?Ans. I feel we are still far behind the world , we cannot be an integral part of system unless physios  will be giving opportunity in development of healthcare policy at national or provincial level though some independent hospitals are recognizing physiotherapy role as essential part of the patient management.

Q23.    Any literary tastes?      yes I live reading books and especially urdu literature.

Q24.    Which writers or poets you read the most?
Ans.    I like ashfaq ahmad , bano qudsia and recently I had find Baba yahya an interesting personality and his books has something which mesmerize  the reader.

Q25.    Tell us about your achievements?
Ans. Apart from the post graduation , I have worked in Charring cross , St Mary’s and St Chalres hospitals having at least around 200 years of history. I feel really proud that I have worked there though it was short term contracts of 6 and 9 months .

Q26.     What kind of patients/disease do you encounter frequently in your practice?Ans. Lower back pain is a big chunk of my daily  patient’s list.

Q27.    Where have you served apart from your present job place? Which you liked the most?Ans. I liked the St Mary’s and St Charles hospital very much , the building  still give u feeling of Victorian  age.

Q28.    Pakistani people are more oriented towards MBBS and BDS but less towards Physiotherapy and the allied sciences. What do you think how this trend can be changed?
Ans. As Far as I am concerned , I have strong objection to include physiotherapy in current age in allied health sciences , completing a 5 year course and bracketing physios in allied health is little unfair through out the world and isolating physiotherapy from  AHP could be one thing and .  Secondly recognition of the profession among the healthcare and general community is the major  obstacle  therefore physios should participate in medical community’s  conferences and deliver their perspective on certain condition may earn them recognition.

Q29.    Share your opinion about current standards of education set forth for future doctors/PTs? Are the satisfactory? How can they be improved?Ans. Current curriculum is a lot better than our times  and is improving  gradually , but in my personal communication with students I find that students have been taught more of medical side and less of physiotherapy side there are less practical  labs therefore this is the area where lot of work can be done.

Q30.    What do you foresee about the future physiotherapists/students?To me at present I am slightly worried about the future when I see the mushrooming of institutes without any regulatory body and too much invited interference of HEC.

Q31.    What is the basic need of physiotherapy profession in Pakistan?More Focus on provision of education  at undergrad level with optimal supervision in real time clinical placements.

Q32.    Whose support you think backed you the most in your career Mother or Father? Ans. Both of them , but Its worth mentioning my sister and  I would like to take this opportunity to thank  her  who supported me a lot .

Q33.    What is your opinion about PPTA and its role in promotion of PT in Pakistan?Ans. Initially it was a great step to pull everyone together and bring every on  one platform but I do not know what happened after ward as their progress is slow apparently . PPTA has great opportunity and could have done better than this but at the same time I would give them a benefit of doubt as well keeping  the situation of our health system and situation in Pakistan its very difficult to penetrate and get your voice heard  effectively.

Q34.    How did you hear about student focus?Ans. Social networking – Facebook.

Q35.    Have you read our last seven editions online?
Ans.   Yes

Q36.    What is your opinion about Student Focus?
Ans. Student focus is a great idea and students who are running it deserve appreciation and recognition and has shown the community their creativity and passion.

Q37.    Any suggestion you want to give for the betterment of Student focus?
Ans. Keep it up, you will face ups and downs , people will  come and go,  but the ideas remains there , I would like to advise that empower the juniors and gradually enable them so when you guys leave there are some to replace you.

Q38.    Any Message you want to give to Physiotherapist/Doctors and for Pakistan?
Ans. You all belongs to healthcare  profession and life has given you incredible and amazing  opportunity to learn about human body and help  people to minimize their sufferings and misery  therefore do justice with the profession , yourself and people whether you like or not to be in the profession.

Thank You so much for your courteous time. It was a pleasure and honor to meet you! Thanks!

By Marriam Naeem and Muhammad Sheraz
Published in 8th Edition Meterolite | Student Focus


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