KHYBER MEDICAL COLLEGE, PESHAWAR

Khyber Medical College, which is
situated at the doorstep of historical
Khyber Pass, was established in 1954.
The College started functioning in 1955
with enrolment of fifty students with mea-ger facilities.
Ever since the college has undergone
tremendous development and has be-come an excellent seat of learning and
motivation, recognized all over the world.
Khyber Medical College is a pioneer
institution in NWFP in medical education
and has been rightly called the mother
Institution of all the Medical/ Dental In-stitutions established in NWFP. It has
created name for itself at national and
international level by dedicated work of
its staff and students.
The graduates of Khyber Medical
College, numbering over 9000, are
providing health care, not only in NWFP
and FATA, but also in rest of the coun-try. In addition, our graduates are hold-ing key positions both at home and
abroad.
Beside undergraduate medical
education, the college offers teaching
and research facilities to the post-graduate students, i.e., M. Phil, in all
basic Medical Sciences, FCPS in Clini-cal as well as basic medical sciences,
and minor diplomas in many special-ties.
The college is affiliated with Khyber
Medical University and is recognized
by PMDC, General Medical Council of
UK, Ireland and licensing authority of
USA.
Khyber Teaching Hospital, estab-lished in 1976, is attached to the college
for teaching/ training purposes. It is a
1200-bedded hospital, which maintains
high standards with highly qualified
medical staff and sophisticated equip-ments.
Adjacent to the college are Khyber
College of Dentistry and Institute  of
Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine
(IRNUM), providing training facilities to
the students of Khyber Medical College
in these disciplines.
The Pakistan Medical Research
Council (PMRC) has established a re-search center within the college pre-mises. It is a well-equipped center where
research facilities are provided in all dis-ciplines of medical sciences.
The college has a well-established
Medical Education Deptt: where
courses on various subjects are orga-nized periodically. In addition, work-shops, symposia and seminars are
organized by the department for the
faculty members and students. An I.T
based ‘Self Learning Resource Center’
has been set up within the college
which is equipped with latest comput-ers that provide internet facility to the
staff and students thus facilitating self
study and research. A wireless network
system has been  established in the
college and wireless bridging between
the college, hospital and student hos-tels has been completed. The network
system is connected to the digital li-brary of Higher Education Commis-sion.
A scientific journal is a symbol of rec-ognition of academic activities and re-search conducted in an institution. KMC
has been regularly publishing its own
scientific journal known as “Journal of
Medical Sciences” (JMS).  The research
articles are mostly contributed by the
faculty of KMC.
KHYBER MEDICAL COLLEGE, PESHAWAR
INTRODUCTION OF THE MEDICAL/DENTAL COLLEGES
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The college has well-established
library consisting of three portions, i.e.,
a lending part for students, a reference
part for teachers and a part containing
periodicals. The library is well furnished,
air-conditioned and offers large collec-tions of books and periodicals to meet
the teachers and students requirements.
Separate hostels for boys and girls
are situated within the premises of
Peshawar University.
The students of KMC over the years
distinguished their Alma Mater not only
by extending selfless services to ail-ing humanity with devotion and dedi-cation, acquiring higher and special-ized    knowledge in various disciplines
of medicine, but also by actively
participating in co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. The Social Welfare
Society is the youth wing of Pakistan
Red Crescent Society NWFP branch.
Based on its outstanding performance
and  impressive activities in the service
to the ailing humanity, the society has
been  receiving champion’s trophy and
has been rated as the best youth wing
of Pakistan Red Crescent Society
NWFP for the last 22 years in a row.
The literary society of the college is
indeed playing a vital role in project-ing the real talents of the Khyberians.
Our college magazine ‘CENNA’ is con-sidered an epitome of excellence in the
literary circles of the country.
In addition, the college has a sports
society, a debating club, a hiking club
etc.
The present Principal of the College/
Chairman Joint Admission Committee is
Professor Dr . Fazal Ahmad,  M.B;B.S,
M.Phil, F.C.P.S
The contact details are:
PABX: (+92-91) 9216206-10
Principal: (+92-91) 9216212
Fax: (+92-91) 9216213
Email:-  principal@kmc.edu.pk
Website: http://www.kmc.edu.pk