Khyber Medical College

Khyber Medical College (KMC) is a public medical college on the University of Peshawar campus in Peshawar. Khyber Medical University (KMU), Peshawar, is the admitting authority for the public medical colleges of KP. Applicants register on the KMU central portal and list KMC among their preferences. PMDC conducts the MDCAT that every applicant must pass. ³⁴

KMC dates from 1954 and is the oldest medical school in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The college runs a five-year MBBS programme with 275 seats. ¹³ PMDC lists KMC among the public medical colleges of Pakistan. ⁷ Our record marks the MBBS programme as active. KMU prepares the merit list for the college. ³

Students train at MTI Khyber Teaching Hospital, which stands next to the college. An underground passage and an overhead bridge link the two sites. ⁹ PMDC names that hospital as the own teaching hospital of KMC. ⁸ The college keeps four hostels for resident students. ¹ The hospital sits on University Road in Peshawar. ⁹

The campus holds a central medical library and the Prof. Raza Ali Memorial Auditorium. KMC also runs an IT cell and a student pharmacy. ¹ Our dataset records a heritage red-brick quadrangle, the hospital complex, the auditorium, the library and hostel residences.

The then Governor-General of Pakistan, Ghulam Muhammad, laid the foundation of KMC in 1954. The college started as a faculty of medicine of Peshawar University. ¹ The KTH history page dates the founding to 2 May 1954. ⁹ PMDC lists KMC among the public medical colleges of Pakistan. ⁷

KMC was the first medical college in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. ⁹ Lady Reading Hospital and the district headquarters hospital carried the clinical teaching while a dedicated hospital was planned. ⁹ KMC needed a teaching hospital to meet PMDC requirements. ⁹ PMDC lists Khyber Teaching Hospital as the own hospital of the college. ⁸

The college laid the foundation stone of a dedicated teaching hospital on 30 November 1967. General Mohammad Musa, the Governor of West Pakistan, performed the ceremony. The hospital first carried the name Ayub Teaching Hospital. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto inaugurated it on 19 February 1977. ⁹ The hospital serves Peshawar from that opening. ⁹ PMDC names Khyber Teaching Hospital as the own hospital of the college. ⁸

The Khyber College of Dentistry started in 1964 as a department of KMC. It became an independent institution in 1990. Its first batch of students graduated in 1968. ⁹

KMC handled its own applications for decades. KMU took over the centralized induction of public medical colleges in KP in 2018. ² KMU prepares the merit list and places candidates on merit and choice. ³ The KMU policy also sets a preference order for every applicant. ³

KMC holds ISO 9001:2015 certification for its quality management system. ¹ The college lists the Journal of Medical Sciences among its publications. ¹ A Department of Medical Education and Research and a research cell support student research. ¹ Our record lists PMDC recognition and a CPSP accreditation entry. PMDC conducts the national MDCAT that KMC applicants must pass. ³

The college opened the Learning Minds Podcast on 13 January 2025. ¹ It also runs the first anti-rape cell among KP institutions. ¹ The site posts student positions in KMU professional examinations. ¹ The admission section carries the current admission notices. ²

KMC open-merit aggregates rose in each of the last four sessions. The closing aggregate moved from 86.85% in 2022 to 88.10% in 2023. It then reached 90.50% in 2024 and 94.77% in 2025. The rise runs across four sessions without a break.

The 2025 self-finance line closed at 93.27%. It sits 1.50 points below the open-merit figure for the same year. The gap shows self-finance candidates who sat just under the open-merit line. KMU sets 31 December as the last date for open-merit MBBS admission. ³

KMU sets the aggregate with three components: 50% MDCAT, 40% HSSC and 10% SSC. ³ The 2025-26 open-merit list shows MDCAT marks out of 180. ⁶ KMU breaks a tie on age, then matric marks, then entry-test marks. ³ Read older rows with care. The MDCAT scale changed from 210 to 200 and then to 180 across years. One percentage therefore does not equal one raw score in every row.

MTI Khyber Teaching Hospital is the main clinical site for KMC students. PMDC lists it as the own teaching hospital of the college. ⁸ The hospital holds 1,400 beds and serves Peshawar and the region. The KTH site describes it as the second-largest hospital in KP. ⁹ IRNUM stands beside the hospital on University Road. ⁹

The hospital stands on University Road in Peshawar. An underground passage and an overhead bridge link the hospital to KMC and IRNUM. ⁹ IRNUM stands on the same road as the hospital. ⁹ The passage lets students cross between the two sites inside one campus. ⁹

Clinical departments cover medicine, surgery, cardiology, orthopaedics, ENT, gynaecology, ophthalmology, paediatrics, neurosurgery and radiology. ⁹ Students meet these specialties in the later years of the MBBS course. Basic science teaching runs in the college blocks before students move to the wards. ¹ Ward rounds and bedside teaching give them patient contact under supervision.

A new OPD section in the basement opened with 16 procedure rooms and KP government funding of Rs. 700 million. ⁹ The hospital runs emergency, laboratory, radiology and pharmacy services for the city. PMDC names the hospital as an own hospital of the college. ⁸

The campus sits on University Road inside the University of Peshawar campus. ¹ Red-brick arched buildings hold the academic departments and lecture halls. Our dataset calls the quadrangle a heritage red-brick structure. A central medical library and the Prof. Raza Ali Memorial Auditorium stand on the campus. Khyber Teaching Hospital, IRNUM and the Khyber College of Dentistry link to the same campus. ⁹

KMC keeps four hostels for resident students. ¹ An accommodation and hostel section manages student housing on campus. ¹ That section handles hostel applications and residence rules. The library serves students and faculty through the session.

Our dataset records a heritage red-brick quadrangle, the Khyber Teaching Hospital complex and the Prof. Raza Ali Memorial Auditorium. It also records a central medical library and hostel residences. The hospital complex sits a short walk from the lecture halls. ⁹

The college publishes examination notices and results through its website. ¹ A student pharmacy and an IT cell support daily campus work. ¹ The admission section carries the current admission notices. ²

PMDC recognises the MBBS programme at KMC. ⁷ The college appears on the PMDC list of public medical colleges of Pakistan. ⁷ Our record marks the programme as active. KMU admits students to KMC through its central portal. ⁴ The KMU portal carries the college merit lists. ⁵

The degree appears in the WHO World Directory of Medical Schools and qualifies graduates for ECFMG certification. The UK General Medical Council recognises the qualification. CPSP accredits KMC departments for postgraduate training. The college works with CPSP on continuing medical education workshops. ¹ Our record lists PMDC recognition and a CPSP accreditation entry. PMDC conducts the national MDCAT that KMC applicants must pass. ³

KMC sits on the University of Peshawar campus in Peshawar. The college keeps four hostels for resident students. ¹ An accommodation and hostel section manages the residences. The hostels sit inside the university campus next to the college. ¹ Applications for each residence run through that section. ¹

Student societies run activities beside the academic timetable. ¹ The college runs a student pharmacy and an IT cell on campus. ¹ An anti-rape cell works on campus safety. ¹ The research cell supports student poster work and departmental research. ¹ Societies organise events outside the lecture hours.

Peshawar is the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The city gives students access to hospitals, markets and public services. Peshawar also hosts KMU, the admitting university for the province. ⁴ Students reach the KMU campus and library from the same city. ⁴ KMU publishes the merit lists on its portal for applicants. ⁵