Baqai Medical University

http://www.baqai.edu.pk

The Baqais( Dr.Fareed Uddin Baqai and Dr.Zahida Baqai) both medical practitioners and surgeons by profession, after completing their medical education in Pakistan and Great Britain, started practicing the art of healing in an underdeveloped country and in a fast growing city of Karachi, the then capital of Pakistan. The enormity and complexity of health care problems and the paucity of proper infrastructures for health care delivery systems motivated them to develop a comprehensive concept of community development on the basis of self reliance and without depending upon the public sector financing. The concept started unfolding itself in concrete actions when the Baqai Foundation acquired a large piece of land on Super Highway just at the outskirts of Karachi and established the first ever rural Medical Centre supported by secondary and tertiary health care facilities in 1976.

Mission

To provide quality education comparable to international standards to its students so that they can acquire the state of art knowledge of subjects for which they otherwise would have to go abroad to internationally known seats of learning. To provide educational programs in accordance with the actual needs of the society both in Pakistan and in the neighboring world. To develop a wholesome and broad based personality of its students inculcating in them a sense of moral and social responsibility. To achieve the above objectives : The admission to Baqai Medical University are controlled strictly, Merit is the only criterion for admission. No quotas, reserve seats or donation seats are allowed for seeking admission to the University. Entrance tests, interviews and scholastic records are important constituents of determining the merit of a student. Baqai Medical University ensures a highly qualified faculty keeping in view the international academic standards. The university has a permanent continuing education program through its Centre for Medical Education. University as an incentive also provides subsidies and scholarships for the teaching faculty as an encouragement to go abroad for higher education, professional seminars and conferences. An intensive evaluation program constantly provides a criterion for the faculty to prove its worth. Baqai Medical University also keeps in view the normative needs of the society. Provisions of inter disciplinary courses and practical involvement of faculty and students in community work ensures an overall and altruistic development of the personality of a university graduate.