The current College of Medicine and Health Sciences grew out of the Gondar Public Health College and Training Center (PHC and TC) established in 1954. It is the oldest medical training institution in the country and located in the historical town of Gondar. The establishment of the PHC and TC was dictated by the pressing and enormous health problems that existed in the forties and early fifties. The aim of the Public Health and Training Centre was training of teams of middle-level health personnel. This was the start of the philosophy of team approach and community based teaching of health professionals. Until 1960, the Ministry of Health was responsible for the college. In 1961, the college joined the then Haile Selassie I University, now known as Addis Ababa University, by the act of internal decree known as “Charter of Haile Sellassie I University”. In 1978, announcements were made for the establishment of a Medical Faculty in the Gondar College of Public Health and Training Centre by bilateral agreement reached between Karl Marx’s University in Germany and Addis Ababa University. It was a landmark in the lengthy history of the College as it was a major transformation that resulted in the practical establishment of the medical education. In the academic year 1980/81, the name Gondar College of Medical Sciences was given to the Gondar Public health college and training center (GPHC&TC). Training was given by German medical experts. It was also an opportunity for successive training of Ethiopians in Germany to substitute the German specialists to whom the college’s success is fully attributed. The college was given autonomy to stand by itself (separated from Addis Ababa University) in 1992.
Currently the College offers about 11 undergraduate degree and 34 postgraduate programs. A PhD program in Public Health has also been recently launched in collaboration with Addis Ababa Continental Institute of Public Health. Our College is made up of: Institute of Public Health, School of Medicine, School of Pharmacy, School of Biomedical and Laboratory Sciences, Department of Nursing, Department of Midwifery, Department of Physiotherapy, Department of Optometry,
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