Buildings and facilities of Dow Medical College and Civil Hospital Karachi.
For over eight decades, the story of Dow Medical College has lived in our memories, conversations, photographs, magazines, reunion halls, and archives. It has been told through printed pages, in Dowlite International, alumni magazines, and through the ever-growing historical archive of TheDowDays.com. Today, with the power of modern creative tools, we present “The Story ofRead More
The Dow Medical College was central to the country’s healthcare system and played a crucial role in shaping medical education. During its first decade, the college hosted many world-renowned figures across all fields of medicine and surgery, reflecting its prominence on the global stage. Although detailed records of their visits and reports are scarce, theRead More
A Tribute to My Professors at Dow Medical College “I find my youth in my professors.” As I reflect on my journey through life and medicine, I find myself returning, time and again, to the hallowed halls of Dow Medical College. It was within those classrooms and clinics that I first encountered the towering figuresRead More
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
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
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
your_groups
By Dr. Rizwan Karatela. \
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
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
