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LIAQUAT UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL & HEALTH
SCIENCES JAMSHORO (LUMHS).
Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences, the first public sector Medical
University, has a long history of Imparting Medical Education in the region. Its
started as Medical School in the present Civil Hospital, Hyderabad in 1881, the
first seat of Medical learning in the province of Sindh. Upon separation of
Sindh from the Bombay Presidency, this school was upgraded to the status of
Medical College, the Sindh Medical College, which was formally inaugurated by
the then Governor of Sindh in 1945. The College was shifted to Karachi at the
end of same year and was renamed as Dow Medical College. The Sindh Government
subsequently started another College in the premises of same Civil Hospital and
Hyderabad in 1951, which acquired its name, Liaquat Medical College after the
assassination of the first Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan
The college during its journey for more than 50 years has made tremendous
contribution in both medical education and health care in the province and the
country. The premises of Civil Hospital Hyderabad soon after its inception
became inadequate for the rapidly expanding Departments of the college,
therefore a site for its future campus was selected at Jamshoro and a beautiful
and spacious campus spreading over 570 acres along with a teaching hospital was
erected within few years at Jamshoro. The shifting of majority of departments to
the new campus was completed in 1963. The college continued its march towards
achieving excellence in various disciplines with greater speed and vigour at its
new campus. Initially, it conducted MBBS courses only. The Dental Section for
imparting education and training for the degree of Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS)
was added in 1963. In the same year the college also started Postgraduate
courses. The number of Postgraduate courses expanded gradually and the college
acquired the status of a Postgraduate Medical Institute in 1989. Besides, it
became a recognized institution for the training for FCPS & MCPS in almost all
disciplines of Medicine, Surgery, Dentistry and Allied Sciences. It also
received recognition from accreditation bodies of foreign countries such as
British General Medical Council of UK, ECFMG of USA and similar bodies of
several other countries.
With the up-gradation to Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences, the
Institution has augmented its efforts to streamline both undergraduate and
postgraduate medical education, and to strengthen its basic and clinical science
departments. Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences has the privilege
that Chandks Medical College, Larkana, Peoples Medical College for Girls
Nawabshah and Jamshoro college of Nursing are affiliated with it from the very
outset.
Although it is a long way to go, however, Liaquat University of Medical & Health
Sciences, under its founding Vice Chancellor, Prof. Jan Mohammad Memon, is now
in the full business of academics and conduct of examinations of all
undergraduate and postgraduate courses. It is also making concerted efforts to
develop linkages with national and international institutions for the promotion
of research, curriculum development and for raising quality of health care and
diagnostic facilities at its attached hospital. In this regard, the University
has constituted five faculties namely, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences,
Faculty of Community & Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medical & Allied
Sciences, Faculty of Surgery & Allied Sciences and Faculty of Dentistry. It may
be worth mentioning that the University is also taking keen interest in nursing
graduate education and is conducting B.Sc. Nursing courses and examination. This
year the University has almost doubled its Postgraduate degree and diploma
courses covering new specialties and is expected to offer more Postgraduate
courses in near future.
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