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  • Principals of Dow Medical College

    Amin H. Karim MD

  • Dow Class of 1960

    Dow Medical College Class of 1960. Photo is courtesy of Dr. M. Basheer Ahmed who practiced Psychiatry in USA and is now retired. The picture is probably the ENT Clinic in Civil Hospital Karachi. It is impressive how seriously the medical students and residents are attentive to the ENT Professor Late Shafiuddin Ahmed Khan. The…

  • DMC Class of 1969

    Here are some photos of the Class forwarded by Dr. Mohammad Shaukat.

  • Dow 1977 Alumni Roster 1997

    By Amin H. Karim MD In the early 1990’s internet was in it’s in infancy. Emails were being sent. Netscape Navigator was introduced connecting the early websites and making them searchable. I had come details of our class fellows from Dow Medical College Class of 1975 that graduated in 1977. I bought a domain name…

  • Early History of Dow: The Real Benefactor

    By Dr. Sohail Ansari 10th December 1945Dow Medical College75 years – Golden JubileeMost will recognise Sir Hugh Dow and relate him as the founder of Dow Medical College. The medical college in Hyderabad was under threat unless it was improved and transferred to Karachi. The man behind the negotiations and actions for this to happen…

  • Prof. Riaz Qureshi 1966

    Rest in Peace Prof. Riaz Qureshi

  • Event in 1979

    An event in 1979: Prof. Camer Vellani migrated back to Pakistan from Ireland. He was Assistant Professor of Medicine under Prof., Najeeb Khan in 1970’s and later left Dow and CHK and became the Dean of Aga Khan University Medical School. Prof. Adeeb Rizvi went on to establish the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation…

  • The Naughty Dowites of 90s.

    LIFE IN DOW MEDICAL COLLEGE, KARACHI 1985: Amin H. Karim MD This was a classic Kodak moment caught by a Dowite showing the mischief of the naughty medical students of the Dow class of 1990 while getting into the DMC bus to take them home. The photo has been posted here before and one of…

  • Dr. Salim Chowdhrey

    June 13 2023 Our member Salim Chowdhrey RIP passed away today On behalf of the ISWMOKB family condolences to all family members and may God give you all the strength to bear this irreplaceable loss Just saw the post below posted by our member Iffat Shah “My good friend and respected senior colleague Dr Salim…

  • Dow Dissection Hall 1980’s

    By Dr. Jamshed Bashir DMC Class of 1986 Starting with an old bland vignette reminiscing dissection of cadavers when we started in Dow Medical College. It is part of a series of essays I wrote about my time in the college. Like all new medical students we were excited to go to the ‘dissection hall’,…

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