Sindh Medical College, Karachi started functioning 7th April, 1973 after final decision of the committee constituted by the Government of Sindh and after sanction budget in 1st week f March 1973. First batch of about 200 Student was admitted to 1st year MBBS class in the College for the 1972-73 session, with Late Professor Dr. Khawaja Moin Ahmed as its Project Director and 1st Principal.

In the beginning the College, started in the building of Peadiatrics ward of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre Karachi, which was actually on army barrack constructed in the year 1865, and was later on handed over the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre in 1959. In the begning there were three Departments i.e. Anatomy including Histology, Physiology and Biochemistry. Later on new academic block was constructed having Department of Pathology, Pharmacology, Forensic Medicine and Community Medicine with all the latest Audio Visual Teaching facilities Laboratories and Museums beside having Administrative Offices also.

A Boys Hostel has been provided near the College and a building for the Girls Hostel has been purchased in P.E.C.H.S. Society since the commencement of the College in 1973.

Since its existence in 1973,23 Batches have graduated from this College till 1998-99.This College does not have attached Teaching Hospital like the other public Medical College of Province, the students receive their Clinical Training in three most prestigious organizations of this country i.e. Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, National Institute of Child Health and National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Karachi.


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