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.