About this role
Aga Khan University has a vacancy for the role of Senior Instructor / Assistant Professor, Family Medicine in Karachi, Pakistan. PakkiNaukri collects this listing from the employer's own posting and re-checks it — the employer's full description and the application itself are on the original listing, linked from this page.
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Introduction
Aga Khan University (AKU), a private, self-governing international university chartered in Pakistan in 1983, is a role model for academic, research and service programmes in health and higher education in the developing world. The University currently has teaching sites in Pakistan, East Africa, the United Kingdom and Afghanistan, and is a major component of Aga Khan Development Network.
Aga Khan University Medical College is the first institute in Pakistan to include Family Medicine as a specialty at undergraduate and postgraduate level. The department aspires to help policy makers to realize the pivotal role of Family Medicine in the health care delivery system in Pakistan. The department fosters a thriving, collaborative environment focused on quality care for the communities we serve, and excellence in education.
As part of its mission, the Department is launching the “Global Physician Programme”, a unique 2-year postgraduate training programme, specifically designed to train physicians to work in rural and remote settings. This multidisciplinary programme is primarily situated at Gilgit Medical Center (GMC) in Gilgit-Baltistan.