Islamic International Medical College (Riphah)

Islamic International Medical College (IIMC) is a private medical college in Rawalpindi. Riphah International University owns the college and runs its admissions on its own portal. ⁴⁶ Riphah states that admissions run on merit. ⁴

Our record dates the college to 1996. It gives IIMC 100 MBBS seats with an estimated fee of Rs. 1,700,000 for the session. It gives 75 BDS seats at an estimated Rs. 1,500,000. The MBBS course runs five years and the BDS course runs four years. ⁵

Riphah calls IIMC the pioneer private sector medical institute of the country. ¹ Wikipedia records the founding under the managing trustee Zulfiqar Ali Khan. ³ The Islamic International Medical College Trust held the project from the start. ³ The Riphah network lists seven campus cities, and IIMC sits in Rawalpindi. ¹

Clinical teaching runs at the Pakistan Railways Hospital and the IIMCT Hospital. Our record gives the clinical capacity at 550 beds. The attached hospital on record sits in sector G-7/4. The railway hospital site lists 350 beds. ² Both teaching sites sit in Rawalpindi.

IIMC opened in 1996 under the Islamic International Medical College Trust. ¹³ Riphah calls it the pioneer private sector medical institute of the country. ¹ Wikipedia names Zulfiqar Ali Khan as the founding managing trustee. ³ Our record dates the college to the same year. The Riphah college page still carries 1996 as its founding year. ¹

The trust grew into Riphah International University, whose charter dates from 2002. ³ The 2002 charter made the trust a degree-awarding university. ³ The university family therefore spans seven campus cities today, and IIMC studies at the Rawalpindi seat. ¹

The dental wing dates from 2001 and runs a four-year BDS course. ⁵ Our record gives the dental programme 75 seats. Wikipedia lists the Islamic International Dental College among the university constituent colleges. ³

The teaching hospital began as a public-private partnership. IIMCT and Pakistan Railways opened the rebuilt Pakistan Railways Hospital Rawalpindi in August 1998. ² The hospital sits in Railway Scheme 7 on Carriage Factory Road in Westridge. ² It describes itself as a 350-bedded teaching hospital. ²

The hospital carries ISO 9001 certification and holds membership of the WHO Health Promoting Hospital network. ² It records PMDC and CPSP recognition for its training. ² The IIMCT portal also notes an HEC ranking of Riphah among the top private medical universities. ² The IIMCT portal therefore carries both the certifications and the ranking claim. ²

The hospital runs medicine, surgery, gynaecology, paediatrics, orthopaedics, ENT and ophthalmology units. ² A school of nursing and medical technologies sits inside the same complex. ² The nursing school inside the complex trains alongside the medical batches. ² Those units cover the clinical teaching of the MBBS and BDS batches.

In the 2023-24 year the hospital handled 138,917 outpatient visits and 4,808 admissions, for 143,725 total contacts. ² The 4,808 admissions cover inpatient care across the listed units. ² The load gives students daily contact with patients during clinical rotations. Our record lists 550 clinical beds across the group sites. The group portal adds four clinical sites for training. ⁵

Our record gives the IIMC MBBS self-finance closing aggregate at 82.1% for 2022 and 83.55% for 2023. It then moves to 84.2% for 2024 and 87.4% for 2025. Every session on record closes higher than the session before it.

BDS follows a lower band. Its closing aggregate reads 79.5% for 2022, 80.85% for 2023, and 81.65% for both 2024 and 2025. The 2025 MBBS figure sits 5.75 points above the 2025 BDS figure. Both programme bands follow the same national formula. ⁷

The national PM&DC policy sets the aggregate at 50% MDCAT, 40% HSSC and 10% SSC. ⁷ The MDCAT mark scale moved from 210 to 200 and then to 180 across these years. Compare sessions with care, because the same percentage does not mean the same raw score in every row. The formula therefore reads the same for MBBS and BDS. ⁷

Our record names the 550-bed Pakistan Railway Hospital Rawalpindi and the IIMCT Hospital as the clinical sites. The railway hospital site describes 350 beds. ² The hospital stands in Railway Scheme 7, Carriage Factory Road, Westridge. ² Both sites sit in Rawalpindi. The group portal names this hospital among its clinical training sites. ⁵

The clinical units span medicine, surgery, gynaecology, paediatrics, orthopaedics, ENT and ophthalmology. ² A school of nursing and medical technologies trains inside the same complex. ² Students meet patients under supervision in those units. ² The group portal adds three further sites for student rotations. ⁵

The hospital counted 143,725 patient contacts in 2023-24, with 138,917 outpatient visits and 4,808 admissions. ² The outpatient figure alone passes 138,000 in one session. ² The contact total sums outpatient visits with inpatient admissions. ²

Our record states that clinical training runs across the medical and surgical sub-specialties at the named sites. The attached hospital on record sits in sector G-7/4. Students therefore train inside sites that the group itself lists. ⁵ The ward load of that hospital feeds every clinical rotation. ²

Our campus record lists the Riphah Al-Mizan campus, a digital anatomy lab, student hostels, a central library and the Pakistan Railway Hospital. The hostel record covers both male and female students. The college site also links laboratories, student life and a hospital network. ¹

The digital anatomy lab supports pre-clinical work before hospital rotations. Students use the central library for reading and revision between lectures. The anatomy lab stands among the listed facilities of the college.

The official portal lists four clinical sites of the group: Riphah International Hospital, Islamic International Dental Hospital, Pakistan Railways Hospital and Max Health Hospital. ⁵ The college trains at those sites. ⁵ Students rotate across those four sites during their clinical years. ⁵

The teaching hospital address runs Railway Scheme 7, Carriage Factory Road, Westridge, Rawalpindi. ² Our record places the college in Rawalpindi. Students live in the hostels on record while they study. Hostels, lecture halls and wards therefore sit inside one city.

Our record marks the MBBS and BDS programmes as PMDC recognised and CPSP accredited. It also lists them in the WHO World Directory of Medical Schools and marks them ECFMG eligible. Both programmes therefore clear the national regulator bar on record.

The teaching hospital records PMDC and CPSP recognition for its training. ² Wikipedia lists the dental college among the Riphah constituent colleges. ³ The hospital site also records ISO 9001 certification and WHO network membership. ²

Our record marks the college recognition status as active. The PM&DC 2025 policy sets the national admission rules that both programmes follow. ⁷ The policy quote sits on the SZABMU admission page. ⁷

IIMC keeps student hostels and a central library in its campus record. The digital anatomy lab gives pre-clinical students a place to work between lectures. The hostel record covers male and female students. The Riphah pages also link laboratories and a student life section. ¹

Clinical years run inside a working railway hospital in Rawalpindi. ² A school of nursing and medical technologies shares the hospital complex with medical students. ² The ward load keeps every batch close to patient care. Students move between campus and ward inside one city. The 138,917 outpatient visits of 2023-24 supply that patient stream. ²

Riphah groups IIMC under its Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, which holds the medical and dental colleges of the university. ¹ The group portal lists four clinical sites for training. ⁵ Out-of-city students therefore live beside their lecture halls.