Dr Tanvira Afroze Sultana, a Senior Scientific Officer of BIRDEM Hospital was the only physician from Bangladesh to serve on the inaugural Inter Academy Medical Panel (IAMP) Young Physician Leaders (YPL) programme held during the third World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany, says a press release.
The purposes of the YPL programme are to develop leadership skills among young physicians who are potential future leaders. Top issues discussed in the YPL workshop were the leadership challenges in the developing and developed world. For the outstanding leadership skill in research, Dr Sultana was chosen in a competitive way by IAMP after it sent out a global call for nominations for physicians aged 40 years or younger.
Dr Sultana expressed that potential young physicians of the country should be supported by the authorities to bring changes in the overall health situation of our country. It is imperative to bring a change in the mind-set of the young physicians so that they learn to think beyond their clinical practice and involve themselves more in research and development.

