Jinnah Medical and Dental College
# Jinnah Medical and Dental College

Jinnah Medical and Dental College (Sindhi: جناح ميڊيڪل ۽ ڊينٽل ڪالج or JMDC) was established in 1998 in Karachi, Sindh Pakistan.

It is located in the heart of Karachi on Shaheed-e-Millat Road. The first batch of doctors and dentists graduated from JMDC in 2003 and 2004 whereas first batch of pharmacy graduated in 2009. The college is affiliated with the Jinnah Sindh Medical University (JSMU), which awards MBBS, Bachelor of Dental Surgery and Bachelor of Pharmacy degrees to its graduates. Graduates from JMDC are eligible to sit for foreign qualifying examinations such as USMLE, (ECFMG) and PLAB.

## Recognized college

This college is affiliated with Jinnah Sindh Medical University and is also recognized by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council.

## History

* 1974 Medicare Hospital
* 1997 Medicare School of Nursing
* 1998 College of Medicine
* 1999 College of Dentistry
* 2000 Medicare Dental Hospital
* 2002 Jinnah Medical College Hospital
* 2009 Jinnah College of Nursing
* 2015 Medicare Cardiac & General Hospital
* 2018 Sohail University

## S. M. Sohail Trust

S.M. Sohail Trust is named after a legal luminary of Karachi, who was an active participant in the freedom movement as President of Provincial Muslim League and also President of Bihar Relief Fund. After 1947, he became Secretary of the Pakistan Bar Council, founding Managing Director of Karachi Co-operative Housing Union and Chairman Public Accounts Committee of West Pakistan Assembly. He was an ardent advocate of education and founded Sharfabad English School. His son, Professor Dr. Syed Tariq Sohail, an eminent Psychiatrist, Educationist and Civil Society Activist, inherited Mr. S. M. Sohail’s passion for education. He established the S.M. Sohail Trust in 1996, which owns Jinnah Medical and Dental College and the attached teaching Hospitals: Jinnah Medical College Hospital, Medicare Dental Hospital and Medicare Heart and General.

Dr. Syed Tariq Sohail, MBBS, DPM, MRC Psych is a psychiatrist. He graduated from Dow Medical College (1965). He proceeded to the UK and worked in several outstanding Psychiatric Institutions. Obtained Diploma in Psychological Medicine from University of London in 1969 and M.R.C. Psych from Royal College Psychiatrists of England in 1972. He returned to Pakistan to serve despite handsome job offers in London and New York. He was appointed to the faculty of Dow Medical College in 1972. In 1975 to found the Medicare Hospital one of the first Private Hospitals in Pakistan.

His social concerns made him take an interest in politics as they related to medical care. As advisor to the Ministry of Health in 1988-1991 he chaired the drafting committee of the National Health Policy and initiated many reforms and represented the Government of Pakistan in negotiations with the World Bank, making a successful case for the support in the social sector at the Pakistan Consortium meeting at Paris in May 1989 & 1990, also led the Pakistan delegation to the World Health Assembly in 1989 & 90 and at the UNICEF Board Meeting in 1990.

He founded Jinnah Medical & Dental College in 1998 and Sohail University in 2018.

## Attached hospitals

* Jinnah Medical College Hospital
* Medicare Dental Hospital
* Medicare Heart & General
* LRBT Eye Hospital
