•••quote:•••Originally posted by Resident Alien:
•Talking to relatives who are KEMC alumni, i got the picture that it is not the KEMC of yesteryears; that it is alive today because of the name it made yesterday
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P.S. Stormreaver, feel free to comment on KEMC
•••••You bet I will.
Your relatives are right: KEMC is certainly not the academic powerhouse it was many years back. The reasons for that are complex, but are mainly associated with the general decline in academic medicine in Pakistan due to the exodus of doctors to the US, UK and Ireland. I think the situation will only worsen as the years go by, since even now the brightest and best are going abroad in search of opportunities.
Having said that, KEMC is still by far and away the best public school, with only AKU being arguably superior. The two schools are based on such different systems that they're difficult to compare, but as I advised Sunny in my first post, AKU has a stronger reputation amongst PDs of late, fostered by the numerous state-side clinical rotations their students do. Of course, AKU is also significantly more expensive (approx. 100 times more expensive on an annual basis than KEMC). KEMC has also got 2 advantages that few other medical schools in Pakistan can match: the attached teaching hospital, where the spectrum and amount of pathology on display is mindboggling, and the academic environment with some of the brightest minds in the country.
I would advise Sunny to go to med school in the US, as everyone here has been saying, aslo look at the Caribbean route, then maybe consider AKU, and if it comes to going to a public med school, KEMC should be top of your list.