Shifa College of Medicine (Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University)

Shifa College of Medicine is a private medical college in sector H-8/4 of Islamabad. It works as a constituent college of Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University (STMU). ¹ STMU runs the admission process through its own portal. ² The university states that it selects students on merit without discrimination. ¹

Our record dates the college to 1998. It gives the college 100 MBBS seats with an estimated fee of Rs. 1,550,000 for the session. The STMU admission page states intake of up to 100 students each year. ¹ The 100-seat figure therefore matches the published intake range. ¹

The college teaches a five-year MBBS course. ¹ Our record marks the programme list as MBBS only. No dental programme sits on record for STMU. Our record keeps the programme list at MBBS with no second degree.

Shifa International Hospital is the attached teaching hospital. Our record gives it 550 beds, and the hospital city page lists more than 550 beds. ⁴ The hospital sits on Pitras Bukhari Road in the same sector. ³ The hospital therefore stands inside the same sector as the college. ³

The Shifa story starts in 1993. The hospital admitted its first nurse on 17 April 1993. It received its first outpatients on 26 June 1993. It admitted its first patient on 25 September 1993. ³ Those three dates give the hospital its 1993 origin. ³

The hospital formed its education council on 20 April 1998. ³ The first medical-school entrance test followed on 20 September 1998, which sets our 1998 founding date for the college. ³ The council ties the hospital to medical education from 1998 onward. ³ The hospital later housed a nursing college, and postgraduate medical education began there in 2003. ³

The first house job round ran from 8 October 1998. ³ The first MBBS cohort finished in 2003, five years after that test. ³ The college therefore produced its first graduates in 2003.

STMU now holds the college as a constituent part. ¹ Wikipedia records STMU as a private university established in 2012, and the hospital works as its academic partner. ³⁶ The university formed fourteen years after the college entrance test. ³⁶ The university page runs the admission cycle for the college. ²

The hospital built specialist depth over the years. It performed its first kidney transplant on 3 January 2001. It completed its first bone marrow transplant in 2009. Its first liver transplant followed on 30 April 2012. ³ The hospital earned its first JCI accreditation on 19 May 2017. ³

The hospital grew from those 1993 openings into a multi-specialty centre. Its Islamabad page now lists more than 45 clinical specialties and more than 300 consultants. ⁴ The group reports more than 3,000 transplants across its programme history. ⁴ The hospital added a voice clinic in December 2018 as the first of its kind in Pakistan. ³ The group reports more than 1,000 liver transplants by 2021. ³

STMU publishes the 2026-2027 admission page with a booklet, an advertisement, an approved syllabus and a sample entrance-test paper. ² The page carries all four documents for the current cycle. ²

Our record gives the Shifa MBBS self-finance closing aggregate at 83.1% for 2022 and 84.5% for 2023. It then moves to 86.4% for 2024 and 89.1% for 2025. Every row sits in the self-finance quota, and the figure rises each session. The direction stays upward across all four sessions on record.

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. The 2024 row climbs 1.9 points over 2023 on our record. The policy sets the same three weights for every college in the country. ⁷

Compare sessions with care, because the same percentage does not mean the same raw score in every row. The 2025 figure sits six points above the 2022 figure on our record. One national formula therefore ranks every applicant for the college. ⁷

Shifa International Hospital carries the clinical teaching for the college. Its flagship site sits on Pitras Bukhari Road in sector H-8/4. ³ Our record gives the hospital 550 beds. Our record describes the hospital as the attached teaching site for the college. The hospital group opened the Islamabad site in 1993. ³

The Islamabad page lists more than 550 beds, 130-plus critical-care beds, 55-plus emergency beds and more than 45 clinical specialties. ⁴ It also lists 300-plus consultants. ⁴ The page reports more than 5,000 staff across the hospital. ⁴ The hospital also runs a dialysis centre certified to ISO 9001-2015. ³

The hospital group reports more than 3,000 transplants. ⁴ Its programme history covers kidney, bone marrow, liver and corneal transplants. ³ The first kidney transplant took place on 3 January 2001. ³ The programme passed 1,000 liver transplants in 2021. ³

Students meet patients under supervision in wards and the emergency department during the clinical years. The 55-plus emergency beds serve that rotation. ⁴ The 130-plus critical-care beds carry the sickest patients on the wards. ⁴ The specialty breadth gives each batch a wide case mix.

The Admission Office sits at the NCBMS campus in sector H-8/4, near the FBISE office. ¹² The STMU main campus address sits on Park Road in the same city. ¹ The sector places college, hospital and admission office in one area. ³

Our campus record lists the JCI-accredited hospital, the STMU component-college status, an advanced anatomy and skills lab, a digital library and hostels in Islamabad. The hospital campus carries the JCI cycles recorded for the group. ³ Our campus record places that lab on the college campus.

The hostel line in our record means out-of-city students hold a residence option. The anatomy and skills lab carries pre-clinical practice into the ward years. The digital library in our record carries the reading load outside class. Hostels keep out-of-city students near the wards of sector H-8/4.

HEC lists the university at Pitras Bukhari Road, H-8/4, Islamabad. ⁵ The hospital campus and the college share the same sector. ³ The admission portal serves the same campus cycle. ² The STMU main campus on Park Road runs the university side. ¹

Our record marks the MBBS programme as PMDC recognised and CPSP accredited. It also lists the programme in the WHO World Directory of Medical Schools, marks it ECFMG eligible and marks the hospital JCI accredited. The programme therefore clears the national regulator bar on record.

The hospital records its first JCI accreditation grant on 19 May 2017, a second cycle in October 2020 and a third cycle in 2024. ³ HEC carries STMU in its Islamabad university list. ⁵

STMU holds the college as a constituent part. ¹ The PM&DC 2025 policy on the SZABMU page governs MBBS admission to the college. ⁷ The SZABMU page quotes the national policy that sets the marks minimums. ⁷

The college sits in sector H-8/4 beside the flagship hospital, so clinical years cut down travel. ³ Our record lists hostels in Islamabad for students new to the city. The NCBMS campus sits near the FBISE office in the same sector. ¹² The admission portal runs the application cycle from the same campus. ²

STMU models its competency framework on the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Canada approach. ² The framework shapes how students progress through the course. ² The 2026-2027 page pairs the approved syllabus with a sample entrance-test paper. ² Students therefore train against one published competency framework from day one. ²

The hospital employs more than 5,000 people and runs more than 45 specialties. ⁴ Students meet a wide case mix during their rotations. ⁴ The 1993 hospital therefore supplies patient contact through every clinical year. ³ One sector holds the class hours and the ward hours together. One hospital carries both routine and specialist work for every batch.