Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad

Abbottabad, the capital city of Hazara division, is not only famous for its scenic beauty but also for some excellent professional and educational institutions like the Pakistan Military Academy, Army Burn Hall School and College, Abbottabad Public School and College, Pakistan International Public School and College, the Iqra Academy, etc. Establishment of Ayub Medical College in August 1978 added another feather in its cap.

The historical opening of the first academic year was held on May 15, 1979 with the enrolment of 100 students. It was first established in a building provisionally acquired from the education department, and then moved to its present new site located on Karakorum Highway (Mansehra Road) on December 30, 1990. From 1979 to date the College has undergone tremendous development. The College has spacious lecture halls with sophisticated audiovisual teaching aids, well-equipped laboratories, museums and a centrally air-conditioned library having textbooks, journals, Medline CD-ROM, and an audiovisual section. Plans to computerize the college and hospital are in the offing, so as to be able to modernize not only record keeping and patient data access, but also to enable computer-based medical education using Internet and offline facilities. A computer network library with 20 workstations for students and staff has already started functioning as the first phase of the AMC network.

The DHQ (District Head Quarters) Hospital Abbottabad remained affiliated to Ayub Medical College for teaching for a period of 18 years. Now all the clinical departments have shifted to the newly constructed buildings of Ayub Teaching Hospital, which has all the general clinical disciplines like Medicine, Surgery and allied subspecialties, Gynaecology & Obstetrics, Ophthalmology, ENT, Radiology, Oncology and Critical Care Units, Pathology Laboratories, etc.

The basic and clinical disciplines maintain a high standard of education with modern equipment and highly competent teaching staff assuring superior training and patient care.

In order to provide dental education and better dental health facilities to the people of this region, the Department of Dentistry at Ayub Medical College has been upgraded to the College of Dentistry for BDS classes. A class of 24 students was admitted in 1999. The college will provide improved facilities of dental & facio-maxillary surgery besides training and teaching of students for degree of Bachelor of Dental Surgery from the University of Peshawar.