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Buildings and facilities of Dow Medical College and Civil Hospital Karachi.

The Final Year Class 1952

From TheDowDays.Com archives, we share a nostalgic group photograph in front of Dow’s main building. Featured here is the Dow Final Profession Class of 1952, including Professor Khawaja Moin, who is identifiable as a final-year student standing (Top Row) fifth from the left. A complete list of everyone in this photograph is provided below. DowRead More

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Rizwan Karatela April 6, 2025April 6, 2025

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’,Read More

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Amin H. Karim MD June 9, 2023June 27, 2023

In Memory of the Yum Yum Tree

THE YUM YUM TREE OF DOW MEDICAL COLLEGE. Yum Yum Tree, also called box fruit tree or heart tree is found mainly in the Southwestern Pacific region. One such tree existed in the campus of Dow Medical College Karachi. It was a beautiful tree, lush green the year round and gave shady to medical studentsRead More

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Amin H. Karim MD July 31, 2022August 1, 2022

Dow Events Photo Gallery No. 1

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Amin H. Karim MD October 5, 2020

From The Eyes of the Yum Yum Tree

By Dr. Rizwan Karatela. \

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Amin H. Karim MD June 9, 2019

The Dow Graduate Association – Foundation Day 1974

DOW GRADUATES AT HERE AND ABROAD It has been said that a tree is judged by the fruit it bears similarly it can be rightly said that an institution is known by the graduates it produces. During the past twenty five years Dow Medical College was born, sustained, nourished and firmly established by a successionRead More

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Rizwan Karatela November 18, 2018

Dow Medical College Main Building.

The famous yum yum tree!  Elsewhere on this site there is a poem by Dr. Syed Khalid Anwer, Class of 1983. Regards Amin H. Karim MD

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Amin H. Karim MD June 16, 2018

Habib Bank Ltd Dow Medical College Branch 1966

A PAGE FROM DOW HISTORY 1966: Talking about Foundation Stones and Dow Medical College, here is the foundation of Habib Bank Limited, Dow Medical College Branch in April 1966. The Principal at that time Prof. Mahmud Ali Shah is looking over. He was the Principal for 14 years till 1969 when Prof. Abdul Waheed tookRead More

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Amin H. Karim MD December 13, 2017

Foundation of Dow Medical College Dec 10 1945

Photos courtesy of Dr. Sohail Ansari

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Amin H. Karim MD December 11, 2017

Inauguration of Dow Medical College Building 1945.

November 1945:  The inauguration of the building of Dow Medical College, Karachi. Minister of Sindh Mr. Pir Ilahi Bux addressing the audience.  Governor of SIndh Mr. Maudi (seated) inaugurated the Building. 45 students were later admitted to the first batch among them one Muslim girl named Ms. Fahmida Shaikh. Dow Medical College (now Dow UniversityRead More

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Amin H. Karim MD December 8, 2017
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