Rehman Medical College

Rehman Medical College (RMC) is a private medical college in Hayatabad, Peshawar ¹. It runs the five-year MBBS programme with 150 seats ¹⁸. KMU conducts its admission on the private-sector portal ⁶⁷. The college site describes the MBBS course as integrated and competency-based ¹.

The college belongs to Rehman Medical Institute (RMI), a hospital group founded by Prof. Dr Muhammad Rehman in 2002 ². Prof. Dr Muhammad Rehman trained as a cardiac surgeon and led the cardiac unit at NICVD Karachi for 28 years ²⁴.

Clinical teaching runs at Rehman Medical Institute in Hayatabad, the college's own hospital ⁹. Our record lists 500 beds for that hospital. The campus keeps hostels, a library, a gymnasium and transport for the students ¹.

The site keeps its admission and session pages for the current round ¹. Our record gives an estimated yearly fee of PKR 1,550,000 for the MBBS course. KMU lists the college among its affiliated institutes ¹⁰. Our record marks the MBBS programme as active for the session we checked.

The founder, Prof. Dr Muhammad Rehman, was born on 5 January 1944 in Peshawar ⁴. He took his MBBS from Khyber Medical College in 1967 ². He finished a cardiac surgery fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ². He joined NICVD Karachi as a consultant cardiac surgeon in 1975 ².

He headed the cardiac surgical department for 28 years and retired as Professor of Cardiac Surgery in January 2004 ⁴. The Government of Pakistan awarded him the Sitara-e-Imtiaz in 2002 ². The founder page credits him with thousands of procedures and one of the highest surgical volumes in Asia ².

He returned to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2002 to establish Rehman Medical Institute in Peshawar ². The founder page describes RMI as a 650-plus bed tertiary care hospital. Our record lists 500 beds at the attached hospital. The institute took the shape of an academic health centre with five colleges ¹. The group also runs RMI International and a relief wing named RMI Relief ³.

He launched the CPSP Fellowship in Cardiac Surgery in 1990 and founded the Pakistan Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons in 1991 ². He also established cardiac centres in Karachi, Quetta and Abbottabad ².

Our record dates Rehman Medical College to 2010, and the Wikipedia list of Pakistani medical colleges gives the same year ⁵. The college site states that the college is affiliated with Khyber Medical University ¹. KMU lists the college among its affiliated institutes ¹⁰.

RMI runs five colleges: medicine, dentistry, nursing, rehabilitation sciences and allied health sciences ³. The PMDC register carries the college with 150 MBBS seats ⁸. The KPK regulator lists the college as active with a HERA renewal certificate for 2023 ¹².

The site keeps a principal's message, achievements, vision and mission pages for the college ¹. The admissions section links a vacant-seats notice for the current session ¹. The college site also keeps an events page and a blogs page for the students ¹.

Our record holds four self-finance aggregates for this college. The closing aggregate moved from 80.85% in 2022 to 82.3% in 2023, then to 83.8% in 2024 and 86.9% in 2025. The 2025 row is the highest of the four and the largest single-session rise.

KMU builds the aggregate from three parts: 50% MDCAT, 40% HSSC and 10% SSC ⁶. The private portal applies the same formula to every private college on its list ⁶. Read the rows with care. The MDCAT mark scale moved from 210 to 200 and then to 180 across recent sessions. One percentage does not mean one raw score in every row.

The private portal asks for at least 60% in HSSC Pre-Medical and at least 55% in MDCAT for MBBS ⁶. The gaps between the four rows are 1.45, 1.5 and 3.1 points.

Rehman Medical Institute, Hayatabad, is the attached hospital of the college ⁹. PMDC lists it as the college's own hospital ⁹. Our record lists 500 beds at the hospital. The founder page describes RMI as a 650-plus bed tertiary care hospital ².

The hospital keeps a Cardio Thoracic Surgery (Adult) unit with a catheterisation laboratory and a cardiac ICU ³. A kidney transplant unit and a cochlear implant programme join them ³.

Hospital services include intensive care, operation theatres, dialysis and renal support, radiology, laboratory work and endoscopy ³. Centres for reproductive medicine and genomic sciences serve the clinical side of the institute ³. The institute also runs a clinical trials unit and a child development centre ³.

The site invites applications for FCPS training in nine specialties with a processing fee of Rs 3,000 ³. The nine specialties are general medicine, general surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, anaesthesia, cardiac surgery, cardiology, cardiothoracic anaesthesia and pulmonology ³. The selection uses MBBS marks, six months of experience after house job and a multiple mini interview ³. Students rotate through the clinical units of the hospital from the later years of the MBBS course.

Our record lists the RMI hospital, the cardiac surgery and transplant centre, the simulation suite, the student hostels and the digital resource library. The site keeps a library link for the students ¹. The site groups its student pages under Life at RMC ¹.

The college site lists hostels, a gymnasium, a library and transport among its campus facilities ¹. The address of the campus is 5/B-2, Phase-V, Hayatabad, Peshawar ¹.

The current MBBS session runs from 2026 to 2031 ¹. The college delivers a competency-based MBBS programme of 150 students a year ¹. The site lists sessions back to 2022-2027 for reference ¹.

The academics section of the site carries the curriculum, the faculty and the graduate learning outcomes ¹. A quality assurance page and a policies and downloads section join it ¹. The site also keeps a blogs page and a captured-moments gallery for the students ¹.

PMDC's private medical register carries Rehman Medical College in Peshawar with 150 seats ⁸. KMU lists the college among its affiliated institutes ¹⁰. Our record marks the MBBS programme as PMDC recognised.

Our record also lists a WHO directory entry, ECFMG eligibility and CPSP accreditation. The college site states its affiliation with Khyber Medical University ¹. The KPK regulator keeps the college entry active with a 2023 HERA renewal certificate ¹².

The college site shows MRCS and FCPS recognition marks for its alumni ¹. The site keeps an affiliations page beside its programme pages ¹. Our record marks the college entry as active for the session we checked.

The site names six student societies: Research, Art and Literary, Social Welfare, Sports, IFMSA and Adventure Club ¹. Hostels, a gymnasium and transport serve the daily life of the students ¹. The site keeps a student-life section with facilities, societies, events and magazines ¹.

The college offers three scholarships ¹. Merit awards go to Pakistani candidates who apply for open merit seats ¹. Performance awards go to the top three positions in the university examinations ¹. The distress scholarship covers students who lose a parent or guardian during their course ¹.

The campus sits in Hayatabad, a planned residential phase of Peshawar, beside the teaching hospital where the clinical work runs ¹⁹. The site lists alumni, events and magazines beside the societies ¹. Our record marks the college open to men and women.