Strategic Plan:

• Training undergraduate and post-graduate medical students.
• Capacity building of the professional personnel e.g. professors, lecturers and assistant professors.
• Conducting scientific researches.
• Improving foreign language skills of the KMU staff.
• Standardizing teaching and pedagogic methodologies.
• Updating curriculums of medical faculties on regular basis including the nursing faculty.
• Harmonizing Para-clinic, public health and clinical related departments and subjects.
• Improving lectures, presentations and practical works for students and trainees.
• Coordinating and exchanging teaching materials with international medical institutions.
• Equipping departments and laboratories.
• Renovating respective hospitals and teaching departments.
• Constructing new buildings for teaching hospitals and nursing faculty.
• Setting standards for hospital management by adopting MOPH hospital management standards.
• Reforming (KMU and related hospitals) administration systems.
• Improving administrative and logistic services.
• Equipping classrooms with modern teaching materials and instruments.
• Standardizing examination and evaluation systems.
• Arranging transportation to students from KMU to related teaching hospitals.
• Arranging facilities for students of the nursing faculty.
• Improving and standardizing learning materials for students of the faculty of medicine.
• Preparing (developing) learning materials for students of the nursing faculty.

Outcomes:

• Qualified general practitioners from various faculties of KMU.
• Medical professionals through conducting specialization programs.
• Health services through teaching hospitals for people.
• Performed researches.

Plans for the Next 10 Years:

Current Plan:

• Conducting academic conferences at each department level.
• Conducting at least two TOT courses/workshops on teaching methodology for KMU lecturers.
• Recruiting professionals from abroad to train the KMU Professors.

Next three Years:

• Ten scholarships for master’s degree and five scholarships for PhD for different medical disciplines every year.
• At least 60 short term scholarships for different departments.
• 10 capacity building related scholarships for lab technicians.
• Settlement of various departments to their related faculties to revise the structure, organo-gram and TOR of KMU departments.
• Develop proper curriculum to meet all requirement of higher education.
• Coordination between various Medical Universities inside/outside the country.
• Database system establishment for students’ records.
• Application of PBL & CBL in different faculties.
• Publishing the syllabus of all faculties in a booklet.
• Providing appropriate audio and video system in classroom.
• Internet connection in classrooms.
• Establishing operation theaters for the following departments: Pediatrics surgery, Gyn/Obs surgery and Neurosurgery.
• Standardizing the Abdominal Surgery Operation Theaters for university hospitals.
• Providing text books, stationeries, printing and publishing facilities in order to standardize the learning material.
• Providing equipments for different laboratories which are in need of (biochemistry, chemistry, forensic medicine).
• Improving/expanding the research center (technically and financially).
• Conducting training workshops on research methodologies.
• Establishing good relation/coordination with MoPH.
• Establishing the computer department and pediatric dental department.
• Coordination between clinic and Para clinic departments.
• Recruiting new technicians for biochemistry, histology, pathology and Public health departments.
• Improving and standardizing learning materials for faculties of medicine.
• Developing/preparing learning materials for nursing faculty.
• Paying more attention to teaching prevalent diseases to students and house job graduates.
• Establishing an Information Technology center in KMU.
• Providing updated learning/reference material for KMU library.
• Providing shelves for students’ records.
• Providing transportation facilities for students for their practical work to hospitals.
• Provision of student’s database.
• Renovating two teaching hospitals.
• Renovation of KMU departments.
• Renovation of KMU building (office administration, classrooms, laboratories etc)
• Renovation of KMU auditorium.
• Construction of green house for Maiwand Teaching Hospital.
• Providing medical equipments for teaching hospitals.
• Renovation of all departments, lanes and gardens of the university hospital (situated in university campus)
• Building of mortician room.
• Building the new pediatrics ward in Maiwand university hospital.
• Repairing central heating system at the university campus.

Next Six Years:

• Promoting the lecturers’ life condition, through providing houses, income and good salary scales.
• Establishing dormitory for Medical University.
• Operation room for cardiothoracic surgery.
• Construction of new teaching hospital and polyclinic for out patient department (OPD) in order to facilitate the teaching of prevalent (Common) diseases for students and house job graduates.
• Construction of the infection disease hospital in Ali Abad area.
• Constructing buildings for stomatology clinics, faculty of nursing and gymnasium.

Next Ten Years:

• Constructing buildings for each faculty.
• Establishing university hospital for each faculty.
• Hiring qualified lecturers and specialists in each faculty and university hospital.
• Settling modern instruments to all sub departments with qualified personnel.
• Annexing the provincial medical faculties to Kabul Medical University.
• Establishing post graduate standard curriculum.

Percentage of KMU lectures in the upcoming years:

Female lectures:

• Next 3 years - 20%.
• Next 6 years - 40%
• Next 10 years - 50%

Masters’ degree holders:

• Next 3 years – 160 (70.79%)
• Next 6 years - 190 (84.07%)
• Next 10 years – 226 (100%)

PhDs:

• Next 3 years - 10 (4.42%)
• Next 6 years - 30 (13.27%)
• Next 10 years - 40 (17.69%)