Ameer-ud-Din Medical College

Ameer-ud-Din Medical College is a public medical college in Lahore ¹. The college belongs to the Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI) and takes Lahore General Hospital as its teaching hospital ¹⁴. The campus sits at 6-Birdwood Road on Jail Road in Lahore ¹. Our record marks the college with a hostel and a central library.

The University of Health Sciences (UHS) Lahore admits its MBBS students on the public-sector portal ¹⁵. Our record lists 110 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.

The college carries the name of Prof. Dr. Ameer-ud-Din, a surgeon and teacher of Lahore ². Prof. Dr. Ameer-ud-Din taught surgery in Lahore after 1947 ². Our record dates the college to 2011, and the UHS prospectus gives 23 February 2011 as the start date ¹. Our record holds 2011 as the establishment year of the college.

PGMI started in 1973 in a block of King Edward Medical University ¹. It now runs 60 programmes, with 12 diplomas and 48 degrees ¹. The 60 programmes cover diplomas and degrees at the institute ¹. The college works as the undergraduate branch of that institute ². Our record keeps the PGMI facilities with the campus of the college.

The college opened in 2011 on the initiative of the Chief Minister of Punjab ². The college opened for its first MBBS session in 2011 ¹. The UHS prospectus gives 23 February 2011 as the start date ¹. The PGMI Academic Council chose the name after its faculty suggested it ¹².

The name honours Prof. Dr. Ameer-ud-Din. He taught surgery and served as a senior professor of surgery at Mayo Hospital after the partition of 1947 ². Prof. Dr. Ameer-ud-Din stands among the pioneer surgeons of Lahore ².

Lahore General Hospital gives the college its clinical base. Its foundation stone fell on 27 February 1958 and its opening ceremony ran on 30 September 1958 ³. The foundation stone of 1958 started the work of the hospital ³. The hospital took about seven months to open after its foundation stone ³.

The neurosurgery unit of King Edward Medical University started at the hospital in 1966 ³. The unit gave the hospital a specialty wing in 1966 ³. The hospital turned autonomous on 1 July 1998 with Dr. Sabiha Khurshid Ahmad as its first chief executive ³. The hospital works under a chief executive from 1998 ³.

On 12 December 2020 the government announced a new ward plan for the hospital ³. The plan added a general ward of 400 beds ³. It also added a cardiology block of 400 beds and a blood diseases block of 200 beds ³. The work of 2020 grew the bed capacity of the hospital ³. The three blocks of the plan total 1,000 beds 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 86.40% in 2022 to 87.70% in 2023, then to 90.15% in 2024. The 2025 row reaches 94.0061% 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.

Lahore General Hospital is the attached teaching hospital of the college ⁴. Our record gives the hospital 1,050 beds. The UHS prospectus profile states 1,000 beds, and the Wikipedia article gives 1,600 beds ¹³. Our record gives the hospital depth in neurosurgery, acute trauma and general medicine.

The PMDC lists the college at Lahore General Hospital and names the same hospital as its own ⁴. The hospital sits on Ferozepur Road in Lahore ³.

Our record states that the Punjab Institute of Neurosciences works from the hospital. The Wikipedia hospital list places PINS on Ferozepur Road in Lahore ⁷. PINS stands for the Punjab Institute of Neurosciences ⁷. The institute works on Ferozepur Road in Lahore ⁷. PINS adds neurosurgery work to the clinical training of the students ⁷.

Students take their rotations in the medical, surgical, obstetric, paediatric and emergency units. The hospital started a new general ward, a cardiology block and a blood diseases block after the 2020 expansion plan ³. Our record lists the hospital wards with the campus facilities of the college. The cardiology block of the plan holds 400 beds ³.

The college works on a campus of 2.68 acres at 6-Birdwood Road, also called Abdur Rehman Chughtai Road, on Jail Road in Lahore ¹. UHS gave the college the campus address in its prospectus profile ¹.

The UHS profile lists 112 members of academic staff and nine student societies and clubs at the college ¹. The societies meet on the Jail Road campus through the session. The staff count of 112 covers the academic departments of the college ¹.

Our record lists the hospital wards, the PGMI facilities, the neurosciences centre, student hostels and a central library with the campus facilities. The central library supports the reading work of the students. The neurosciences centre sits with the hospital wards in the record.

The college keeps one hostel for female students and one for male students ¹. The hostels sit on the Jail Road campus ¹. The PGMI website carries the notices and results of both bodies ⁵.

The PMDC keeps the college on its list of recognized medical colleges with attached teaching hospitals ⁴. The PMDC list joins the college to Lahore General Hospital ⁴. UHS handles the admission and the examinations of the college ¹⁵.

The Wikipedia list gives 2011 as the founding year, 110 MBBS seats and UHS as the university. It records the WDOMS code F0002677 and ECFMG recognition from 2011 to date ⁶. The Wikipedia list places the college among the public colleges of Punjab ⁶. ECFMG recognition lets the graduates of the college apply abroad.

Our record marks the programmes PMDC recognized, with WHO WDOMS listing, ECFMG eligibility and CPSP accreditation.

The college runs nine student societies and clubs ¹. Prof. Dr. Muhammad Farooq Afzal serves as the principal of the college ². The societies cover academic, sports and cultural work through the session. The societies use the sports grounds of the campus ¹. Our record marks the college as co-educational with a hostel.

The 6th convocation of the college and the 11th convocation of PGMI ran on 17 February 2026 ⁵. The ceremony granted 170 degrees to undergraduate and postgraduate students with the Provincial Minister for Health as chief guest ⁵. The ceremony ran at the campus of the institute ⁵.

A resuscitation and trauma management workshop ran at the institute from 8 to 10 March 2026 ⁵. The workshop ran for three days at the institute ⁵. Students live in one hostel for female students and one for male students on the campus ¹. The record gives the students exposure in neurosurgery, acute trauma and general medicine.