Allama Iqbal Medical College

Allama Iqbal Medical College is a public medical college in Lahore. The college stands on Allama Shabbir Ahmad Usmani Road in Lahore ⁴. The Government of Punjab established it in 1975 as Lahore Medical College ¹. The college took its present name two years later, in 1977, for the philosopher centenary of Allama Muhammad Iqbal ¹.

The University of Health Sciences (UHS) Lahore admits its MBBS students on the public-sector portal ¹⁵. Our record lists 325 MBBS seats, and the UHS seat table gives the same number ¹. Our record gives the MBBS fee at Rs. 32,000 for the session.

Jinnah Hospital Lahore is the attached teaching hospital of the college ⁴. The UHS prospectus profile gives the hospital 1,500 beds, which matches our record ¹. The hospital sits on Maulana Shaukat Ali Road in Lahore ⁴.

The college motto is Dignity in Service. Its colours are white and navy blue ¹. Our record holds 1975 as the establishment year of the college. The record marks the college with a hostel and PMDC recognition. The record marks the programmes with ECFMG eligibility and CPSP accreditation.

The college opened on 2 May 1975 as Lahore Medical College ¹. The Government of Punjab established the college as a public project ¹. Prof. Dr. Akhtar Hussain Awan became its first principal ¹. The first academic day fell on 12 August 1975 with 313 students ¹.

Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurated the college in 1975 ³. The college functioned as Lahore Medical College for its first two years ¹. The college took the name Allama Iqbal Medical College in 1977 for the philosopher centenary ¹. The name honours the national poet and philosopher of Pakistan ³.

The first sessions ran from the Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI) building ¹. The college worked from the PGMI building until 1990 ¹. The final plan for a new campus arrived in 1980. The foundation stone followed in March 1980 with a budget of Rs. 670 million ¹. The campus work ran from the plan of 1980 to the move of 1990 ¹.

Services Hospital took the clinical work of the first sessions ¹. Jinnah Hospital work began in 1988 as an 1,100-bedded hospital ¹³. President Ghulam Ishaq Khan inaugurated the campus on 18 May 1989 ¹. Wikipedia dates the college to 1975 and lists UHS as its university ⁶.

The college moved to its own campus in 1990 ¹. The move of 1990 gave the college its present campus ¹. Jinnah Hospital started its outpatient department in 1994. Its emergency opened on 23 March 1995 and a diabetes clinic on 28 May 1995 ³.

The library holds 28,000 books and reads 14 international and 20 national journals ³. The library sits on the campus of the college ³. The college publishes the AIJE journal ³. The AIJE journal carries the research work of the college ³. The library serves the students and the faculty of the college ³.

Our record holds four open-merit aggregates for this college. The four rows sit on the open-merit lists of UHS. The MBBS closing aggregate moved from 89.10% in 2022 to 90.36% in 2023, then to 91.18% in 2024. The 2025 row reaches 94.453% and stands as the highest of the four. The four rows rise in every year of the period.

UHS builds the aggregate from three parts: 10% of SSC marks, 40% of HSSC marks and 50% of MDCAT marks ¹. The prospectus states the formula for the public-sector seats ¹. Every public medical college in Punjab uses this one formula.

Compare sessions with care. The MDCAT mark scale changed between 2021 and 2025, so the same percentage does not mean the same raw score in every row. The mark scale of the paper moved from 210 to 200 and then to 180 across those years.

Jinnah Hospital Lahore is the attached teaching hospital of the college ⁴. Our record and the UHS prospectus profile both give the hospital 1,500 beds ¹. The hospital stands on Maulana Shaukat Ali Road in Lahore ⁴.

The PMDC lists the college on Allama Shabbir Ahmad Usmani Road with Jinnah Hospital on Maulana Shaukat Ali Road as its own hospital ⁴. PMDC joined the hospital to the college in its 2025 list ⁴.

Work on the hospital began in 1988 ¹³. The outpatient department started in 1994, the emergency on 23 March 1995 and a diabetes clinic on 28 May 1995 ³. The three services opened across the 1990s ³.

The hospital runs a burn and reconstructive surgery centre on its campus ². The centre carries the name Jinnah Burn and Reconstructive Surgery Center ². Our record gives the hospital depth in medical, surgical and paediatric specialties. Students take their clinical rotations in the medical, surgical, obstetric and paediatric units of the hospital. Services Hospital took the clinical work of the first sessions of the college ¹.

The campus covers 105 acres beside the Lahore canal ¹. Our record gives the campus 103 acres. Our record places the campus in southern Lahore.

The UHS profile lists an auditorium that seats 1,500 ¹. It also lists separate gymnasiums for boys and girls, a swimming pool and tennis courts ¹. Hockey and cricket grounds sit on the campus as well ¹. Students use the gymnasiums and the grounds through the week ¹. The auditorium, the pool and the courts sit on one campus ¹.

Our record adds a central air-conditioned auditorium, a digital medical library, research laboratories, cricket and football grounds and on-campus hostels for boys and girls. The research laboratories sit with the digital library on the campus.

The hostels hold four units for male students and two for female students ¹. The college office works from 08:00 AM to 02:00 PM on working days ¹.

The PMDC keeps the college on its list of recognized medical colleges with attached teaching hospitals ⁴. The PMDC list carries the college address in Lahore ⁴. UHS handles the admission and the examinations of the college ¹⁵.

The Wikipedia list gives 1975 as the founding year, 325 MBBS seats and UHS as the university. It records the WDOMS code F0000203 and continuous ECFMG recognition from 1975 ⁶. The Wikipedia list records the college among the public colleges of Punjab ⁶.

Our record marks the programmes PMDC recognized, with WHO WDOMS listing, ECFMG eligibility and CPSP accreditation. Our record keeps the four accreditation entries with the college profile.

The college runs more than 28 student societies ². Prof. Dr. Tayyiba Wasim leads the college as its principal ³. The societies cover academic, sports and cultural work through the session. The sports societies use the grounds on the campus ¹.

Students live in the on-campus hostels, four for male students and two for female students ¹. The hostel names are Ibn Nafees, Al Beruni and Bu Ali Sina ³. Our record gives the three hostels a capacity of about 1,000, 400 and 100 students. The gymnasiums, the swimming pool and the sports grounds stand on the same campus ¹.

The college magazine carries the name Shaheen ¹. The magazine carries the student writing of the college ¹. The alumni work through the AIMCANA and AIMCAUK associations ¹. The site counts more than 144 faculty members and 3,600 publications ². Our record marks the college as co-educational with a hostel.