Dow International Medical College

Dow International Medical College

Dow INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL COLLEGE is a government-owned public medical college in Karachi, Pakistan, which is recognised by Pakistan medical and dental council to admit 100 students per year. It is affiliated with DOW UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES, KARACHI. It has its own state of the art teaching hospital named Dow UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL. The HOSPITAL has five hundred beds, with maximum diagnostic and treatment facilities.

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Mission

The Dow University of Health Sciences recognizes the education of students and preventive strategies for community health care as one of its primary missions. The fundamental goal is to equip students with knowledge, clinical skills and the desire to excel in their chosen areas of medicine. In collaboration with appropriate institutions and professional bodies, we endeavor to guide students to choose from various areas of interest, general or clinical specialties, academic practice or basic research to fulfill the needs of society.

The university strives to provide its graduates with the skills and ability to analyze incorporate new knowledge, possess the attitude to be life long learners, and most of all to generate in them, the desire to serve the nation. Separate hostel facility for boys and girls is available.

It was planned to have DIMC at its Ojha campus and got the project approved by Higher Education Commission (HEC).

Meanwhile the college was up and running in an old block after renovation it in accordance with International Standard in all respects. It is fully equipped to impart education to undergraduate students.

In December 2009 DIMC was be shifted into the newly constructed state of the art complex (currently under construction) which covers a total area of 175,000 sq ft (16,300 m2). The department of ANATOMY comprises a Museum having high quality models besides a huge Dissection Hall, with modern cold storage facilities for six dead bodies at a given time.

The PHYSIOLOGY DEPARTMENT has power labs and modern laboratories with latest apparatus for research and training of both undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Dow University has recently admitted many foreign students in an attempt to increase popularity on the international scale.

The DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY also has contemporary equipments for undergraduate and postgraduate training.

This spacious building has six lecture halls each having a capacity of 280 students.

This college has been approved by Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) for admission of 100 students per year for MBBS course.

International recognition

The reputation of DOW Medical College also follows the Dow International Medical College. Already, DIMC has been gaining a lot of popularity and worldwide recognition. With its state-of-the-art facilities, DIMC is predicted[by whom?] to be not only as one of the top medical schools in Pakistan, but as the very top and highly acclaimed medicine institutions in the country.

The Dow International Medical College has been added in International Medical Education Directory (IMED), while Dow Medical College and Sindh Medical College are already included in the directory.

The IMED provides an accurate and up-to-date source of information about international medical schools, recognized by appropriate Government agencies (usually Ministry of Health) of the countries where the medical schools are located. These schools are then also recognized and listed by International Medical Education Directory (IMED).

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