Faculties
Faculty of Medicine
Directorate of faculty of medicine which is second rank of cadre post was established in 1311 solar year in the framework of Kabul University. Since then till now, this faculty has had 79 rounds of graduation. Based on the new curriculum, the study duration of this faculty is consisted of six and half years, with a successful completion of the study period a student will be granted graduation document at the level of MD.
Vision of the Faculty of Medicine
Offering free and standardized medical education based on the social needs of Afghanistan and region.
Mission
Educating professional graduates in terms of clinical skills, public health, research and teaching.
Goals
- Recruiting talented students who have the ability to study medicine.
- Providing standard curriculum according to the needs of country, region and world.
- Employing professors for the purpose of teaching and educational counselling.
- Providing suitable educational opportunities and condition that meets the needs of standardized medical education.
- Facilitating clinical and psychological consultations.
- Efforting in accreditation and quality assurance of faculty at the level of region and world.
Medical faculty graduates must have the following abilities:
- Ability of adaptation with the up-to-date development of medical knowledge.
- Updating their medical knowledge in accordance to the social needs.
- Maintaining effective communication with patients and being committed to take care and behave ethically with the patients.
- Transferring medical knowledge to the students, colleagues and society.
- Applying reasonable cooperation methods in sharing complicated medical issues with colleagues or responsible figures.
The current director of medical faculty is Doctor Saniullah Zelmay.
Email Address : medicine@kums.edu.af
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Faculty of Stomatology
Faculty of Stomatology which is second rank of cadre post was established in 1357solar year in the framework of Kabul University. The study duration of this faculty is consisted of six years (three years par clinics, two years clinic and one year house job) with a successful completion of the study period a student will be granted graduation document of MD. Since then till now this faculty has had 29 round of graduation.
Vision of the Stomatology Faculty
The main vision of this faculty is to be known as a faculty of dentistry in accordance to the international standards, having professional and academic standard plan for the purpose of properly educating the students in the field.
Responsibilities and Duties
The main duty of this faculty is to have access to the professional skills and knowledge of dentistry through impactful teaching, research and offering standardized medical services in the field of dentistry.
- Developing skills, clinical research and specialized knowledge.
- Facilitating standardized medical services for patients in dentistry field.
- Developing knowledge in the area of oral health science.
- Providing effective teaching and learning environment.
- Cooperating in exchange of knowledge and information with all academic centers outside of the university.
- Developing the quality and quantity of standardized medical services for patients by observing national and international standards.
Goals
- Educating students at the level of DMD.
- Capacity building of academic members.
- Conducting academic research and holding academic conference and workshops.
- Standardizing teaching method.
- Continuous renewal and development of dentistry faculty curriculum based on social needs, pathologic condition and offering health services in field of dentistry.
- Managing lectures and practical works for students and house job.
- Equipment of laboratories and departments.
- Promoting stomatology teaching clinic to teaching hospital of stomatology (rehabilitation of teaching hospital of stomatology)
- Connecting stomatology faculty with other national faculties at the level of country and international.
- Having independent budget.
Email Address : stomatology@kums.edu.af
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Faculty of Public Health
Previously, this university was called pediatric medicine faculty. In 1389 solar year, it was established in the frame work of Kabul University of Medical Sciences. The study duration of this faculty is four years (one year par clinic, two years clinic and one year house job) with a successful completion of the study period a student will be granted graduation document of Bachelor of Science in Public Health (BSPH). Since then till now this faculty has had five rounds of graduation.
Goals
Healthy people in Afghanistan and region.
Mission
Faculty of Public Health endeavors with all its facilities and sources to achieve the following mission.
- Educating experts in health area.
- Conducting research for the purpose of collecting evidence to make practical decisions and effective policy development.
- Upgrading society health.
Values
- Effective higher education: Public health faculty is committed to provide quality and standardized education facilities which meet the current needs of our society in accordance to the international standards.
- Cooperation: Believe in work and unanimous decision, listening to others comments and sharing decision making process, conducting research for providing evidence and facilitating decision making process and policy making in the country.
- Ethics and dignity: Observing ethic and preservation of dignity of people in teaching and researching process is the main principal of this faculty.
- Equality: Believing in principal of equality and fairness in paving the ground for the education and facilities for everyone without considering gender, language, tribe, religion etc.
- Sound office/Effectiveness and efficiency: Establishing a sound and a role model office for others and codification of essential programs for the purpose of promotion of sound and effective office. Also efforts are in ensuring standard service in realistic and professional manner.
- Innovation: Effort in educating talents based on the student centered method in order to develop innovation and ability of young generation.
- Accountability: It is an acceptable principal in which public health faculty in all its work area is accountable and tries to introduce and custom it in education process.
Email Address : publichealth@kums.edu.af
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Allied Health Faculty
Allied health faculty was established in 1391 solar year in the framework of KUMS. The study duration of this faculty is four years (one year par clinic, two years clinic and one year house job). With a successful completion of the study period, a student will be granted graduation document of bachelor (advanced technologist). Since then till now this faculty has had three rounds of graduation.
Vision
vision of this faculty is to be equipped with modern equipment, to have enough scientific and educational resources, to have experience, knowledgeable, expert and professional professors at the level of master and doctorate degree in medical technology and antistaticn committed with all values and needs of our society in order to enable new generation and talents to fulfill the needs of our society.
Goals
- Educating young generation (students of Allied Health Faculty) according to the needs of society and national and international standards.
- Anesthetics and technology educational program ensures education philosophy based on the assigned curriculum from the university to the students and teaches specific topics or issues of medical technology and anesthetics. So in the end of educational program students will obtain the ability of practical work. The graduate students of the faculty will fulfill the needs of society in case of having anesthetist and technologist who can help people in improvement of family and society health.
- Advancing knowledge for the purpose of offering equal service for everyone.
- These people should know how to act according to prevention and treatment of the health system.
- Every technician must be skillful for assisting the society.
- Every technician must assist doctors in diagnosis and principal of treatment.
- Finally for an effective treatment without mistakes we need for skillful and advance technicians.
Mission
Transmitting knowledge in specific field for students of allied health faculty according to the academic standards and obtaining of balanced knowledge which will make professional and academicals development of students so that our next generation will have essential abilities and skills and strengthen feeling of being responsible, patriots, honest and having sufficient information of the recent discoveries and sound findings of human thought and educate them to observe all human rights equalities and avoiding discrimination.
Values
- Academic freedom
- Commitment to observe piety, honesty and transparency in work
- Commitment to perform tasks on time in a team work
- Respecting others and different opinions
- Mastering his job and shared leading
- Declining any kind of language, ethical, racial, sectarian, thinking and sexual discriminations
- Responsible
Allied health faculty believes in the following spiritual values for the purpose of educating the new generation.
- Professional and responsible
- knowledgeable and well read
- patriot
- committed and honest
- aware of men and women rights
- protecting living environment
- helpful
- proper use of opportunities in hand
- believe in the values of teaching
- kind and well wisher
- well behaved and good personality
- disciplined
- confident
- innovator and curious
- punctual
Graduates Departments
Department
Medical Technology
Anesthetics
The study duration of technology faculty is four years, a student after passing this period, graduates at the level of bachelor and works in medical field in laboratories, clinics and par clinics.
2. Higher Anesthesiology Department is four years. Students obtain a graduate degree after passing the mentioned period. They work as anesthesiologists. The present director of Allied health is Dr. Karimullah Shaheer who is the lecturer of the Tuberculosis Department. He was hired and chosen officially by KUMS’s Chancellor’s Office and The Ministry of Higher Education. He approved by High officials of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in 1397. Shaheer has a Master degree.
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Email Address : alliedhealth@kums.edu.af
A brief history of Nursing in Afghanistan
In 1911-1919 during the reign of Shah Amanullah Khan, a number of women were sent abroad in order to gain knowledge and skills and the faculty of Afghan medicine established the first school of Nursing in Kabul in 1940. In 1962 the secondary school of Nursing was established under the support of the Ministry of Public Health and the cooperation of the German government. In 1976 the primary and secondary school of Nursing merged and started its activities at a center called the Institute of Science and Health. In 2006 Kabul University of Medical Sciences established the Faculty of Nursing in its administrative and professional framework. Today، with the names of Nursing Faculty، with standard activities and standards with the adaptation of the new curriculum with the needs of the community with professional nurses، is serving the country This faculty was initially established with four departments of nursing, Community Health Nurse, Mother Health nursing and Kalan Nurse, and then two departments of midwifery and serious care were added, and in 1400 AD the department of midwifery was upgraded to faculty and separated from the faculty body of Narsang Now, its teaching was in accordance with ICM and ICN guidelines i.e. international confederation of nurses and with the implementation of standard and standard Curriculum It goes forward.
Brief Introduction of nursing Faculty
Faculty of nursing based on the urgent needs of the medical community in order to train professional and committed cadres, informed and missionary nurses in 1385 AH. It was established in the framework of Kabul University of Medical Sciences. Kabul Medical University proposed the plan for establishing nursing Faculty in the leadership board and started to establish nursing Faculty by establishing a commission from a group of university professors. In the first step, 36 referencing from different countries that had experienced the bachelor's degree program and fortunately at that time the sponsorship program of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) began in Tokyo in 2002 And the program was classified in three stages, including preparation for collaboration, curriculum outline and curriculum development, which was conducted under the Department for Medical Education Development or EDC, The second phase of the program was decided to establish a faculty and immediately after the chancellor worked with Japan, Tokyo, nursing of College slake. St contacted JICA in 2005, Establishing assessment needs and also the commission appointed after completion of the assessment need consolidation of the first course for indispensable, specialized, basic subjects Optional and inclusive university organized by administrative formation of faculty and presented to the leadership board, which after approval was submitted to the academic council of Kabul Medical University that Kabul Medical University proposed the establishment of Narsang Faculty to the Ministry of Higher Education and after the approval of the Academic Affairs Cohesion Commission with four departments and 18 administrative positions at the bachelor's level, establishing Narsang faculty by the Minister of Higher Education and Purpose The government officially began its activities. Prof. Shams Rahim Rahim with active participation in the commission of establishment of Nursing faculty, the curriculum and its administrative formation was determined as the first Dean of Nursing faculty in January 2006. Since then, this faculty has been a great place to train nurses with bachelor's degree and has so far provided 713 people from Nursing section to the Socity. The duration of education in this faculty is four or eight semesters and students in this faculty pass the entrance exam which will be graduated by successful completion of this period by obtaining a bachelor's degree and receiving its privileges. This faculty attracts about 80 to 120 people every year. The faculty directorate is the second and academic position and is aimed at administering and coordinating academic and administrative activities of the faculty according to the standards، regulations and procedures of the university in order to implement the strategic plan and other related affairs. Currently, this faculty has 9 active departments and experienced professors, mostly doctorate, master, MD and bachelors who have been active in the current repair since 2017 and have laboratories, two Skill Labs in the field of Nursing. There are no modern teaching facilities and teaching facilities in two sections. Fortunately, there is a library in Bob. Its organizational ceiling has 54 staff positions and 48 professors are present, administrative staff of this faculty are 3, 6 labernets and 2 service staff are also in its formation. Initially, this faculty had no specific location using the teaching rooms of the departments of pharmacology, biochemistry, and chemistry to carry out its activities based on the need for a new repair, The foundation stone of the building of nursing Faculty and Faculty of Midwifery was established in1391/10/7 year by the leadership board of the Ministry of Higher Education, Kabul University of Medical Sciences and Narsang Faculty of Midwifery in two blocks and four floors, including classrooms, lecture rooms and laboratory rooms, administrative departments and other departments. It is worth mentioning that its financial expenditures were financed through the development budget of the Ministry of Higher Education and its construction affairs was financed by Spinghar Construction Company. The Faculty of Narsang has developed and implemented a five-year plan from 2021 to 2025 AH based on the strategic plan of Kabul University of Medical Sciences and based on its strengths and using the opportunities of the hand. And the faculty academics، both quantitatively and qualitatively، can have a significant impact on the delivery of health services in our country and our medical community.
Vision
Faculty of Nursing Kabul University of Medical Sciences "Abu Ali Ibn Sian" as a powerful department in the field of medical education, intends to be a pioneer in developing capabilities, training, research and performance at national and regional levels.
Mission
Faculty of Narsang Kabul Medical University "Abu Ali Ibn sina" has the mission of relying on faculty members and available facilities, providing easy, appropriate and standard areas of access in the service sector to achieve scientific, research and educational skills for training the country's specialist staff.
Programme of study and degree studies
Bachelor's Degree Program of Nursing Faculty has a credit (156) program that the student successfully completed four years or eight semesters to Bachelor of Science of Nursing (BSCN). Graduation
Infrastructure Facilities
The Faculty of Nursing has been established in two blocks and four houses in 2012 and has been used since 1396. This faculty has standard rooms for students, chemistry and biology laboratories and a petology laboratory, two scalelabs, as well as a library and a room for quality assurance and accreditation office. And the faculty also has a wide green area.
Administrative Formation
Narsang faculty in 1403 was one post of faculty dean, 54 staff positions, 6 technician positions, 3 administrative positions and two service staff positions.
Email Address : nursing@kums.edu.af