MRCPCH Clinical Examination in Sudan

An agreement was signed between the Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, represented by the Dean of the Faculty Professor Ammar El-Tahir and the Royal College representative Dr. Bruce McLain.

It adopted the clinical examination of the Fellowship of the Royal College of Pediatrics (MRCPCH ) in Sudan.

Postcards published by G N Morhig, 1972

Collection: Photographs from album which appears to have been compiled by Private Patrick Joseph Dolan, number 3708566, 1st Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment.

Kitchener School of Medicine, Khartoum, Sudan.
Postcard published by G N Morhig, Publisher, The English Pharmacy, Khartoum, Sudan. Number 210
Accession Number: KO1972/47

أول أستاذ باطنية في كلية الطب جامعة الخرطوم

هيو ف. مورقان

HV Morgan

أول أستاذ باطنية في كلية الطب جامعة الخرطوم

ولد بروفيسور مورقان في سوانزي في ساوث ويلز بانجلترا وتعلم في أميز مدارسها قبل أن يلتحق بمستشفى سان بارثولوميو في لندن في العام 1937 ويتخرج في العام 1940 حائزاً على عدة جوائز أثناء دراسته وعند تخرجه. نال دبلوم زمالة الكلية الملكية لاختصاصيي الباطنية (MRCP) في العام 1941. قضى دكتور مورقان فترة الامتياز في مستشفى سان بارثولوميو في الفترة 1940-1941 عمل بعدها طبيباً في وحدة نقل الدم ومساعد تدريس في قسم علم الأمراض ليستقر أخيراً كبيراً لمساعدي بروفيسور ر. ف. كرستي (R.V. Christie). بعد قضاء عامين (1944-1946) ضمن السلاح الطبي النيوزيلاندي عاملاً في قوات البحر الأبيض المتوسط، عاد ليعمل كبيراً للمساعدين في وحدة الاستاذية في مستشفى سان بارثولوميو. 

قدم مورقان للخرطوم في العام 1952 ليشغل منصب البروفيسور الأول للباطنية بالكلية الجامعية وعميداً لكلية الطب بجامعة الخرطوم من 1955-1958. كان بروفيسور مورقان طبيباً ممتازاً ومعلماً صبوراً وباحثاً مدققاً اهتم بدراسة كل ما تعرض له أثناء ممارسته من أمراض المناطق الحارة، ونشر أبحاثاً عن البنسلين والتهاب الكبد و (Onchocerciasis).

حتى منتصف الثلاثينات من القرن العشرين، لم تكن مادة الأمراض الجلدية تدرس بطريقة منتظمة في مدرسة كتشنر الطبية ولم تخصص لها أي ساعات مقطوعة ضمن المقرر الدراسي، فقد كان الرأي السائد بين الأطباء آنئذ أن ليس هناك العدد الكافي من الحالات التي يمكن أن تكون مادة للتدريس، وبالتالي ليس هناك من سبب لإهدار وقت طالب الطب الغالي في محاضرات عن الأمراض الجلدية. أعيد النظر في هذه المسألة مرة أخرى في العام 1952 وتأكد للجميع أن هناك مادة علمية كافية للتدريس، وعلى ضوء هذا التقييم بدأ بروفيسور مورقان وبروفيسور روبرت كيرك أول عيادة للأمراض الجلدية في مستشفى الخرطوم الملكي في العام 1953 وكان لهما بذلك الفضل في وضع اللبنات الأولى لعلم وتخصص الأمراض الجلدية (Dermatology) في السودان.

التحق روبرت كيرك (1905-1962) بالمصلحة الطبية السودانية (وزارة الصحة لاحقاً) في العام 1933 ليشغل منصب مدير معامل (ولكم) و(استاك)، وعين بروفيسور في علم الأمراض في جامعة الخرطوم في العام 1952، ثم شغل منصب عميد كلية الطب جامعة الخرطوم (أكتوبر 1954-مارس 1955).

تخليداً لذكرى روبرت كيرك وتوثيقاً للجهد العلمي المميز لبروفيسور مورقان وتقديراً لفضل العالمين الجليلين في فتح نافذه جديدة لدراسة الأمراض الجلدية، أصدر الفاتح عبد الله حمدين محرر (مجلة الحكيم) في العام 1965 عدداً خاصاً من المجلة أفرده لمقالات بروفيسور مورقان التي نشرت في المجلة في السنين السابقة عن الأمراض الجلدية فكان جهداً مقدراً وإصدارة مميزة بلك المقاييس.

 by Ahmad Al Safi

A Tribute to Two Pharmacists Who Made Medical History in Sudan

This is a tribute to two pharmacists whose contribution to medical science in Sudan has been remarkable. They deserve to be recognized and their work appreciated. The two pharmacists are the naturalized British American industrialist, chemist, bacteriologist, medical philanthropist and pharmaceutical tycoon, Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936), and the Irish pharmacist Professor Patrick FD D’Arcy.

Professor Suleiman S. Fedail

Professor Suliman S. Fedail graduated from the Faculty of Medicine University of Khartoum in 1971 after a distinguished undergraduate carrier. He joined the Faculty of Medicine University of Khartoum in 1972 as a Teaching Assistant. He was sent to Bristol University in UK in 1974 for postgraduate studies. He obtained the membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 1975 and the degree of Doctor in Medicine MD from the University of Bristol in 1979 on the Exocrine Pancreas. 

The Kitchener School of Medicine, Khartoum. Second Report, 1926-27

The usefulness of this most interesting report will certainly not be confined to the Sudan. As the medical training of African natives in British Colonies develops there is little doubt that this record and subsequent reports from the same source will serve as valuable guidés and works of reference. It is a pioneer document and although wholly concerned with the problems of medical education as they affect the Sudan, it indicates certain sound principles which have a wider application and provides information which cannot fail to be of service elsewhere.

Kitchener School of Medicine, Graduates' Documentation (1928-1965)

On 29th February 1924 Kitchener medical school was opened by Sir Lee Stack, then Governor-General of the Sudan and Sirdar of the Egyptian army.

Initially, the course of training covered four years; in 1934 it was extended to five years, and in 1939 to six years. The classes were small; the enrollment quota was limited to ten students a year until 1938. For a number of reasons, no students were enrolled in the years 1926, 1937, 1941, 1945 and 1947. Applicants to the Kitchener School of Medicine were the top graduates of the Gordon Memorial College, a school established in 1902 in honor of Charles Gordon, Governor General of the Sudan in 1884 – 85.

Ahmed Hashim Bey Al Baghdadi the patron of medical students

Hashim Bey Al Baghdadi is a name to be remembered by all of those who studied or worked at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum. His ongoing generous financial support to the school from its infancy to the present day has provided immense resource that kept the school surviving until now. Baghdadi was of Iranian decent and immigrated to Sudan in 1900. He was known as a successful merchant in Khartoum during the early years of the twentieth century. In his last years, he was one of the donors to the appeal to establish the Kitchener School of Medicine. The School and its student remained one of his main interests and many of the early students were recipients of his generosity. Baghdadi died in 1933 and in his will he left the major part of his wealth to the medical school. This was later transferred into an endowment (Wagf) for the medical school. Such generous donation became the legacy of Al Baghdadi who is survived by the charity.

The fifth report of the Kitchener School of Medicine

Feb 13, 1937
The British Medical Journal

The fifth report of 'the Kitchener School of Medicine, Khartum, covers the period 1933-5, and includes the reports of the assessors for these years, who were respectively Professor A. K. Henry and Dr. H. L. Tidy, Professor H. B. Day and Mr. Hugh Lett, and Sir Walter Langdon-Brown and Mr. C. H. Fagge. It is announced that the previous curriculum of four years followed by a compulsory year of postgraduate training in resident appointments has now been replaced by a course lasting five years. Comment is made that the students' knowledge of facts is very good, but that there is weakness in their ability to argue from them and to make the deduction which is a most essential part of the training of a medical practitioner.

Professor Mansour Ali Haseeb: Highlights from a pioneer of biomedical research, physician and scientist

Mustafa Abdalla M Salih,
International Editor,
Sudanese Journal of Paediatrics

ABSTRACT

The article highlights the career of Professor Mansour Ali Haseeb (1910 – 1973; DKSM, Dip Bact, FRCPath, FRCP [Lond]), a pioneer worker in health, medical services, biomedical research and medical education in the Sudan. After his graduation from the Kitchener School of Medicine (renamed, Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum [U of K]) in 1934, he devoted his life for the development of laboratory medicine.

Professor Taha Ahmed Baasher

Professor Taha Ahmed Baasher Formerly Regional Advisor on Mental Health,World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Region Taha was born on 2 June 1922 in Sawakin, the historical Red Sea port in Sudan. He graduated from Kitchener School of Medicine, Khartoum, in 1949 with Distinction and a prize in anatomy. He worked as a general practitioner in various parts of Sudan. He was then granted a scholarship to study psychiatry at the Maudsley.

Professor Daoud Mustafa Khalid

Professor Daoud Mustafa, a great Sudanese physician and neurologist, died on 3/6/2008 at his home in Khartoum, aged 90.

Professor Daoud Mustafa was active in both teaching and clinical practice until nearly two years before his death, when he started to ail. His death is a real loss to both the Sudanese and the international medical profession.Thousands of doctors trained under him, hundreds of whom became specialists and professors in medical schools in the Sudan, in the Gulf states, in Europe, (U.K. and Ireland in particular), the USA and Canada.

An outline of the history of Medical Research Institutes in the Sudan

Mansour Ali Haseeb 

Source: Haseeb MA. A Monograph on Biological Research in The Sudan. Khartoum University Press, Khartoum 1973:3-19.

Recorded medical research in the Sudan commenced with the foundation of the Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial, College, Khartoum, in February1903. The objectives of these laboratories were as follows:

محاضرة العلامة البروفسير عبد الله الطيب بكلية الطب 1999

Faculty History

The initial proposal to establish a medical school was put forward by Lord Kitchner on his last visit to Sudan in 1912 after his death in June 1916 an appeal for fund raising to fulfill his wish was started on 1923.

On 29th February 1924 Kitchner medical school was opened by Sir Lee Stack, then Governor-General of the Sudan and Sirdar of the Egyptian army.

In September 1951 the school was linked administratively to Khartoum University College. After independence in 1956 Khartoum University College was upgraded to Khartoum University, the medical school became a Faculty of Medicine and started offering the M.B.B.S. Degree.