A collaborative effort to promote Medical Journalism in Pakistan

摘要

It was no less than a miracle that the initiative taken by Pakistan Medical Journalists Association and Army Medical College to organize first ever National Conference on Medical Editing at Rawalpindi proved a great success. It had the blessings and support of National University of Science and Technology and the Higher Education Commission. The conference attracted over one hundred twenty participants who benefited from the knowledge and experience of local faculty consisting of many distinguished medical editors as well as invited guest faculty from WHO EMRO, Islamic Republic of Iran, UAE and Saudi Arabia. Thus it gave a practical shape to regional co-operation to promote the cause of medical journalism as envisaged by the Eastern Mediterranean Association of Medical Editors (EMAME) which was formed at Cairo meeting in 2004.1