Ayub Medical College (AMC) (Urdu: ایوب میڈیکل کوللگے) is one of several medical schools affiliated to Khyber Medical University. Located in Abbottabad of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan, AMC as of January 2010 is home to 1350 students in the MBBS and BDS programs. The school has a large and experienced faculty to support its mission of education, research, and clinical care. Faculty members hold appointments in the basic science departments and in the clinical departments located Ayub Teaching Hospital as well as other offices in Abbottabad. There are approximately 175 full and part-time voting faculty members consisting of assistant, associate, and full professors at AMC. AMC began functioning in May 1979 at the Education Extension Centre in Abbottabad after a decision by the Government of Pakistan to establish another medical college outside the Peshawar region and to further aid in the development of medical health care in the Hazara region and Gilgit-Baltistan region. The first batch of 100 students were accommodated in the Education Extension Centre, while the present AMC campus and teaching hospital were being constructed north of the town.