Quaid e Azam Medical College (QAMC) is a medical college in Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
Quaid e Azam Medical College was founded on 2nd Dec 1971 when its foundation stone was laid by the then Governor of Punjab Lt Gen Attique-ur-Rehman (retd). The college is affiliated for clinical training to Bahawalpur Victoria Hospital. It provides health care facilities to a population of around 12 million, and had produced 5600 medical graduates up to the year 2008. It is a center of tertiary care and postgraduate courses, including DOMS, DCP, DCH, M.S. Orthopedics and FCPS in Medicine, Surgery, Gynecology, Neurosurgery and other specialties, and for MCPS in Dermatology.It also offered Allied health professional courses, including Medical Labortary technology, Optometry, Physiotherapy and audiology. These allied health professionals started from 2007.It was the first endogenously designed Medical Campus by a Pakistani Architect and has the characteristics typical in A. R. Hye's style of architecture.The college is presently affiliated with University of Health Sciences (UHS), Lahore.
In the first few years, the academic building was located in a Government Vocational Institute building in Satellite town area (Baghdad-ul-Jadeed Road), where the hostels were located in the upper part of the building. In addition, the hostels were also located in an old para-medical school. By the time of passing out of the first batch, the present well designed and spacious building had been completed.
The design of the building incorporates natural climate control features, such as cross-ventilation, strategic placement of windows, and overhangs and courtyards to create shade. Additionally, the roof vaults, besides providing insulation, also allow the flow of air through the vault roof, bringing down ceiling temperatures. Hollow walls also provide insulation. It is very hot in the summer.
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