Quaid-e-Azam Medical College

Quaid-e-Azam Medical College (QAMC) is a public medical college in Bahawalpur. It opened in 1971 and takes its name from Muhammad Ali Jinnah. ¹ The college teaches men and women on one campus. ¹ The University of Health Sciences (UHS) Lahore conducts its admissions through the public MBBS portal. ⁴⁵

Our directory records 325 MBBS seats on open merit. PMDC lists a seat allocation of 350 for the college. ³ The first-year fee in the directory stands at Rs. 32,000. Applicants register on the public MBBS portal and list colleges in preference order. ⁵

Bahawal Victoria Hospital is the main teaching hospital. It stands next to the campus on Circular Road and takes its name from 1906. ¹⁸ The college and hospital serve the Bahawalpur division of southern Punjab. ¹ Our directory records 1,600 beds, and the college history reports more than 1,538 beds. ¹ Civil Hospital Bahawalpur carries clinical training alongside it. ⁷

In early 1971 Punjab had two medical colleges: King Edward Medical University for men and Fatima Jinnah Medical College for women. ¹ Fatima Jinnah Medical College in Lahore took women students at the time. ¹ Southern Punjab held more than twelve million people and had no co-educational medical college. ¹ Governor Lieutenant General Attique-ur-Rehman announced the new college for Bahawalpur. ¹⁷

Classes started on 22 February 1971 at the Vocational Training Institute on Baghdad Road. ¹ The first class held 108 students, and eight of them were women. ¹ Professor Syed Alamdar Hussain Shah served as the founding principal. ¹

The college carried the name Bahawalpur Medical College for three weeks. On 15 March 1971 it became Quaid-e-Azam Medical College. ¹ The college took its present name three weeks after the first class. ¹ Dr. Laeeq Akmal of Sialkot designed the new insignia. ¹

The foundation stone of the permanent campus went down on 2 December 1971. ¹⁷ The site covers 119 acres beside Bahawal Victoria Hospital on Circular Road. ¹ The permanent campus sits on Circular Road beside the teaching hospital. ¹ The college moved into the completed campus in 1975. ¹

Architect Abdur Rahman Hye designed the campus. ¹ He used vaulted roofs, hollow walls, cross-ventilation, deep overhangs and shaded courtyards to suit the heat of Bahawalpur. ¹ The college calls it the first indigenous medical campus designed by a Pakistani architect. ¹

Bahawal Victoria Hospital grew from a Civil Hospital that opened in 1876. ⁸ It took the name Bahawal Victoria Hospital in 1906 and serves the college from 1970 onward. ⁸ The college also lists the College of Nursing Bahawalpur among its teaching sites. ¹ By 1997 the college produced 3,282 graduates. ¹ Today it teaches about 1,551 MBBS students and 216 B.Sc (Hons) students. ¹

The open-merit closing aggregate moved from 87.30% in 2022 to 88.75% in 2023. It reached 89.60% in 2024 and 93.7182% in 2025. The 2025 figure sits above the 2024 figure by more than four points.

UHS builds the aggregate from three parts: 10% SSC, 40% HSSC and 50% MDCAT. ⁴ Every value in this chart comes from the open-merit category of a public college. A candidate reports SSC, HSSC and MDCAT marks once. ⁴

MDCAT total marks moved from 210 to 200 to 180 across recent sessions, so one percentage is not the same raw score in every row. The UHS merit annexure works one example on a 200-mark scale and a second on a 180-mark scale. ⁴

Bahawal Victoria Hospital is the main clinical base for QAMC students. It stands beside the campus on Circular Road. ¹⁶ The college history records more than 1,538 beds at the hospital, with a further 410 at Nawab Sadiq Khan Abbasi Hospital. ¹ The hospital took its present name in 1906. ⁸ Our directory records 1,600 beds for the hospital. Civil Hospital Bahawalpur also takes students for clinical training. ⁷

Clinical work runs through medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, cardiology, nephrology, pulmonology, orthopaedics, ENT and ophthalmology. ⁸ The hospital also runs an accident and emergency department. ⁸

The college also lists the Pervaiz Elahi Institute of Cardiology and a unit for paediatric surgery among its teaching sites. ¹² The PMDC register of recognised institutes places the college address at Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Circular Road, Bahawalpur. ⁶ The College of Nursing Bahawalpur trains on the same network. ¹

Postgraduate training runs at the hospital too. The college reports about 450 postgraduate trainees across its programmes. ² Training covers medicine, surgery and the allied disciplines. ¹

The campus covers 119 acres beside Bahawal Victoria Hospital on Circular Road. ¹ Our dataset records a 44-acre campus with Islamic arched facades. The permanent campus went into use in 1975. ¹ The site stands next to the teaching hospital. ¹ The buildings carry the Islamic arched facades noted in our dataset.

The college keeps four male hostels and three female hostels. ¹ It also runs an auditorium, a medical library, sports grounds and courts. ² Students walk to clinical postings at the hospital beside the campus. ¹ The library supports undergraduate and postgraduate readers. ¹

The buildings follow the plan of Abdur Rahman Hye with vaulted roofs, shaded courtyards and cross-ventilation. ¹ The design also uses hollow walls and deep overhangs to suit the local heat. ¹ The college publishes a magazine named Quaid and a journal named Annals of QAMC. ¹²

PMDC lists QAMC in its public medical colleges register with a seat allocation of 350. ³ UHS carries the college in the 2025-26 prospectus for public admissions. ⁴ The college reports recognition by the Pakistan Medical Commission. ¹ The PMDC register of recognised institutes places the college address at the teaching hospital. ⁶

Our accreditation record lists PMDC recognition, a WHO World Directory of Medical Schools listing, ECFMG eligibility and CPSP accreditation for postgraduate training.

Alumni chapters work in the United States, the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia. ¹

Seven hostels hold the students on and near campus, four for men and three for women. ¹ The hostels stand inside the campus boundary. ¹ Sports grounds and courts sit inside the campus boundary. ² An auditorium on campus carries college events. ²

Student societies cover drama, medicine and literature through the Quaidians Dramatics Club, the Iqra Medical Society and the Quaidians Literary Society. ⁷ The college publishes its own magazine for student writing. ¹ Notable alumni include the Seraiki poet Ashu Lal Faqeer and Syed Waseem Akhtar of the Punjab Assembly. ⁷

Life runs on the college motto of Discipline, Unity and Merit. ² Students walk to clinical postings at the hospital next door. ¹ The campus lies beside the hospital, so students reach clinical work on foot. ¹