Khyber Medical College (Urdu: خیبر میڈیکل کالج, abbreviated as KMC) is a public sector medical college located in Peshawar. Khyber Medical College is the oldest medical college of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and was established in 1954. It is considered as a mother medical institution.[2]
Khyber Medical College is situated inside the University of Peshawar and occupies the site of ancient Buddhist academy.
The college offers both undergraduate medical education and teaching and research facilities to postgraduate students (e.g., M. Phil, in basic Medical Sciences, FCPS in Clinical and basic medical sciences, and minor diplomas in many specialties). It is one of several medical schools affiliated with Khyber Medical University and is recognized by PMDC.
Khyber Medical College on a rainy day
History
After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, a need was felt for the establishment of a medical school in the North-West Frontier Province. The person who acted upon this need was Monowar Khan Afridi, who collaborated with the Chief Minister of the province, Sardar Abdul Rashid. Both of them decided upon the name "Khyber Medical College" for the proposed medical school. Finally, the foundation stone of the college was laid by the Governor General Malik Ghulam Muhammad on 2 May 1954 with the college beginning to function in 1955 with an enrollment of fifty students and meager facilities.[3]
After establishment, the college was affiliated and run by University of Peshawar, with Monowar Khan Afridi as the Vice-Chancellor. It remained under the administrative control of the health department after parting ways from University of Peshawar in 1975. Presently, the college and hospital have been given administrative and financial autonomy by the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and are working under the institutional management committee, headed by a Chief Executive.[4]
