About SMC
Sindh
Medical College, Karachi started functioning 7th April, 1973
after final decision of the committee constituted by the Government of
Sindh and after sanction budget in 1st week f March 1973. First
batch of about 200 Student was admitted to 1st year MBBS class
in the College for the 1972-73 session, with Late Professor Dr. Khawaja
Moin Ahmed as its Project Director and 1st Principal.
In the begning the College, started in the building
of Peadiatrics ward of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre Karachi, which
was actually on army barrack constructed in the year 1865, and was later
on handed over the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre in 1959. In the
begning there were three Departments i.e. Anatomy including Histology,
Physiology and Biochemistry. Later on new academic block was constructed
having Department of Pathology, Pharmacology, Forensic Medicine and
Community Medicine with all the latest Audio Visual Teaching facilities
Laboratories and Museums beside having Administrative Offices also.
A Boys Hostel has been provided near the College and
a building for the Girls Hostel has been purchased in P.E.C.H.S. Society
since the commencement of the College in 1973.
Since its existence in 1973,23 Batches have
graduated from this College till 1998-99.This College does not have
attached Teaching Hospital like the other public Medical College of
Province, the students receive their Clinical Training in three most
prestigious organizations of this country i.e. Jinnah Postgraduate Medical
Centre, National Institute of Child Health and National Institute of
Cardiovascular Diseases, Karachi.
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