In April last year, Pakistan Medical and Dental Council recognised Federal Medical and Dental College before giving it the mandatory green light to admit 50 MBBS students for the 2012 session.
Earlier, on February 6 it sanctioned permission for increase of seats to 100 in line with the recommendations of its inspection team, which found the college's educational, teaching and clinical training facilities and standards, as well as availability of financial resources within acceptable limits.
In June last year, the prime minister inaugurated FMDC, which is affiliated with the country's premier Quaid-i-Azam University and has the city's premier Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences as attached teaching hospital.
According to a relevant official, admission will be offered to the first 100 candidates on the merit list prepared after the holding of a written test by the public sector National Testing Service and in line with the government-approved quota for provinces, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and Gilgit-Baltistan. Some seats are reserved for candidates with Islamabad's domicile.
More than 100 professors, associate and assistant professors and demonstrators with teaching experience of anatomy, physiology, psychology, biochemistry, internal medicine, pharmacology and other disciplines have been hired for the college located in Chak Shahzad, while besides PIMS, the college is also attached to a 200-bedded non-teaching hospital, Federal General Hospital, close at hand. The hospital is on the erstwhile premises of National Institute of Health's Allergy Centre.
