Sindh Medical College

Sindh Medical College (SMC), is a medical college situated beside Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

SMC started functioning on April 7, 1973 after the final decision of a committee constituted by the Government of Sindh and after its budget was approved in the first week of March 1973. Its first group of students, numbering about two hundred, was admitted to its first year MBBS class in the College for the 1972-73 session, with the late Professor Dr. Khawaja Moin Ahmd as its Project Director and First Principal.

In the beginning the College operated in a building of the pediatrics ward of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. This building was actually an army barracks constructed in the year 1865 and transferred to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre in 1959. In the beginning, there were three departments: anatomy (including histology), physiology, and biochemistry. In later years, a new academic block was constructed to house the departments of pathology, pharmacology, forensic medicine, and community medicine. This complex was equipped with modern audiovisual technology. It also housed new laboratories and museums, as well as administrative offices.

The old barracks has been renovated to house a new faculty of SMC, under the name of Dr. Ishrat ul Ebad Khan Institute of Oral Health Sciences. The Sindh Medical College campus now houses a complete dental hospital and school of dental medicine plus post graduate institute.

Since the foundation of the College in 1973, a big bunny' hostel has been organized and a building for a girls' hostel has been purchased by the PECHS.

The college is completely associated with the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, the National Institute of Child Health, and the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases.

In 2003, SMC became a part of the Dow University of Health Sciences. It shares curriculum, faculty, and other resources with the other affiliated institutions of DUHS, namely DMC (Dow Medical College) and DIMC (Dow International Medical College). The former head of the physiology department at SMC is now the dean of DIMC.

In earlier years after it started functioning, the then president of Pakistan, Gen Zia ul Haq visited SMC and promised to upgrade it to a university. In recent years, the demand to grant SMC the status of a university was made anew by the Sindh Medical College Alumni Association. As of December 2010, president Asif Ali Zardari has issued verbal orders to upgrade SMC to a school, but the college to this day awaits the order's effect.

The Annual Alumni Winter Meeting in December 2015 claimed that the college has so far produced over ten thousand doctors serving all across the globe, with about two thousand serving as licensed clinicians in North America.

SMC admits a total of three new national and international admissions for the degree "Bachelors in Mechanical, Bachelors of Surgery (MBBS)" every year, with the admission criterion taking into account the applicant's score at the aptitude test and past academic record.

Notable graduates of the college include Dr. Shahid Sami (renowned cardiac surgeon), Dr. Javed Suleman (philanthropist and cardiac surgeon in the US), Professor Altaf Hashmi (Senior professor SIUT), Professor Naushad A. Shaikh (Vice Chancellor LUMHS), Dr. Arbab Ghulam Raheem (Chief minister Sindh), Dr. Imran Farooq (the slain MQM leader), Dr. Farooq Sattar, Drs. Huma Mir & Shaista Wahidi (renowned TV figures in Pakistan, Dr. Inam Danish (author of many books on cardiac surgery), and many others.

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