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 Official Logo of PUMHSW | |
Former names | People's Medical College (PMC) Nawabshah Medical College |
|---|---|
| Motto | Access of Women to Knowledge |
| Type | Medical education and research institution |
| Established | 1974 |
| Founder | Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto |
| Endowment | Government-funded |
| Chancellor | Governor of Sindh |
| Vice-Chancellor | Prof. Dr. Gulshan Ali Memon |
| Address | Near New Doctor's Housing Society People's Road,(Nawabshah) ,,,26°14′36.5″N68°24′14.7″E / 26.243472°N 68.404083°E /26.243472; 68.404083 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Nickname | PUMHSW |
| Affiliations | People’s Medical University Hospital (PMUH),Higher Education Commission (Pakistan),Pakistan Medical Commission,Pharmacy Council of Pakistan,Pakistan Nursing Council,College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan |
| Website | pumhs |
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ThePeople’s University of Medical and Health Sciences for Women (PUMHSW) (Sindhi:پيپلز يونيورسٽي آف ميڊيڪل اينڊ هيلٿ سائنسز فار وومين) is a publicmedical university located inShaheed Benazirabad District (Nawabshah),Sindh,Pakistan.
It is the first women’s medical university in Sindh. The University is affiliated with People’s Medical University Hospital (formerly referred to asPeople’s Medical College Hospital orCivil Hospital, Nawabshah) and NORIN Cancer Hospital.[1][2][3][4]
Apart fromMBBS offered by the University, undergraduate programs likeDPT,PharmD,Bachelor of Nursing,BS Public Health are offered.[5][6][7] Postgraduate courses in medicine,anaesthesiology,public health, andcommunity medicine are also being offered since 2004. As a result, it received recognition fromBritish Medical Association,ECFMG and other international bodies.
JPUMHS is the official research journal of the University which was started in 2011. It is a quarterly published, multi-disciplinary and peer-reviewed journal.[8]
As a result of dire need of women to pursue higher education, a medical college inNawabshah, People’s Medical College, was established exclusively for women in 1974 byZulfiqar Ali Bhutto,[9] making it the first women’s medical college in the province. The college offered undergraduate medical course (MBBS) in its initial years and was affiliated withUniversity of Sindh. It got affiliated with People’s Medical College Hospital in 1983. The medical college was initially located in the District Council (DC) High School (the oldest government high school in the city), consisting of an auditorium and a couple of hostels along with the main building of Muslim Boarding House.
In 2004, postgraduate courses were introduced.[9] A proposal ofHealth Department of Sindh to introduce co-education in the college was vehemently opposed by the Academic Council of the college in 2005.[10] The name of the college was suddenly changed to Nawabshah Medical College by the provincial government in 2006, leading to uproar as its name was easily confused withNishtar Medical College.[10] In 2009, Sindh government upgraded the status of the medical college to a university through an act, and it was subsequently renamed as People’s University of Medical and Health Sciences for Women.[11][12][13]
The University was made the centralized Admitting University of the province by the provincial committee for admission to medicine and dentistry in 2020.[14][15]
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