Dow Institute of Health Professional Education

Dow Institute of Health Professionals Education (DIHPE)

About DIHPE

Dow Institute of Health Professionals Education (DIHPE) is an entity of DUHS that facilitates teaching, scholarship, development, and evaluation of educational programs through service provision, research, and innovation. The scope of its activities includes undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, continuing professional development, allied and lifelong learning.

History

In Pakistan, Dow Institute of Health Professionals Education (DIHPE) has the privileged to be the first program dedicated to Health Professional Education (HPE). An idea was developed, and the institute was eventually established for the purpose of reorganizing, enhancing, and optimizing the existing activities for health professional education in the region.

DIHPE focuses on four pillars of medical education: teaching and learning, principles of assessment, curriculum development and innovation, and research in HPE. Furthermore, we supervise the delivery of a variety of Faculty Development and Professional skills courses ranging from one-day to five-day, as well as up to three-month exploratory courses, which are required of all MPhil and PhD trainees at Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS).

Message by Director

Welcome to the Institute of Health Professionals Education at Dow University of Health Sciences, Pakistan. Our institute offers exceptional faculty development programs to educate our academic staff on evidence-based teaching practices. By incorporating these practices, we strive to enhance the delivery of healthcare services and improve patient outcomes.

Professor Dr. Farhan Saeed Vakani,
Ph.D., Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow., MCPS-HPE., MSc., BDS
Director, Dow Institute of Health Professionals Education |
Program Director Ph.D. Medical Education & General Education,
Dow University of Health Sciences

Statement of Purpose

Our vision is to create a center of excellence for knowledge, learning, and teaching that benefits academic faculty across the region and the nation through enhanced collaboration and networking with other academic and research organizations.

Our mission is to support health professionals by enhancing their teaching practices through innovative educational formats. We offer faculty development activities and continuing professional development to update their knowledge, skills, and aptitude. As part of our mission, our institute offers Certificate courses, postgraduate programs in Medical Education, and Faculty Development activities such as workshops, conferences, webinars, journal clubs, and large group lectures.

To create a center of excellence for knowledge, learning, and teaching that benefits academic faculty across the region and the nation

To empower academic faculty through innovative teaching and learning methodologies so they are able to improve the academic standards of any health professions institution they choose to work at, locally or abroad.