Sahiwal Medical College

Sahiwal Medical College is a public medical college on Medical College Road in Sahiwal, Punjab. It offers the MBBS program, which runs for five years. ¹ The college website gives the same campus address. ⁵

The University of Health Sciences Lahore runs the public admission round in Punjab. ² Applicants register on the UHS public admission portal and name the college in their preference list. ²³ A domicile certificate from any district of Punjab satisfies the domicile rule for open merit. ²

The Government of Punjab laid the foundation stone of the college in 2010, and the college became functional in November 2010. ¹ Wikipedia records 27 November 2010 as the date. ⁴

Sahiwal Teaching Hospital is the attached teaching hospital. ¹ The college also trains students at Government Haji Abdul Qayyum Teaching Hospital. ¹ The prospectus gives 120 MBBS seats for the 2025-26 session, with 91 on open merit. ¹ Classes for the session began on 2 February 2026. ²

The need for a medical college in the Sahiwal region led the Government of Punjab to start the college in 2010. The Chief Minister of Punjab laid the foundation stone. ¹ Wikipedia records the date as 27 November 2010. ⁴ The college became functional in the same month. ¹

The Punjab Government allotted 62 acres of land for the college. ¹ The campus was built at a total cost of Rs. 1 billion. ¹ It holds an academic block, an administrative block, a library, a conference room, lecture theatres and laboratories. ¹ The campus also holds the hostels and the sports grounds. ¹

The first MBBS classes ran at the paramedical school of Sahiwal Teaching Hospital. ¹ The college moved to its new campus in December 2014. ¹ The move gave the college its own academic block and lecture theatres. ¹ The move placed the college on its current site. ¹

The first batch of students graduated in February 2016. ¹ In that Final Professional MBBS examination, the college stood first with a 97.87% pass percentage among 29 medical colleges in Punjab. ¹ The result marked the first graduation at the college. ¹

The prospectus records 91 academic staff and 569 enrolled students. ¹ The prospectus names Muhammad Akhtar Malik as principal of the college. ¹ The college motto is Knowledge, Service, Excellence. ¹ The college runs the MBBS program on the 62-acre campus. ¹

Postgraduate training runs at the college and its allied hospitals under PMDC, CPSP and UHS. ¹ The recognised specialties cover medicine, general surgery, paediatric medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, ophthalmology, ENT, urology, orthopaedic surgery, anaesthesiology and diagnostic radiology. ¹ Students train at Sahiwal Teaching Hospital and the two allied hospitals. ¹ The training covers ten recognised specialties at the college and its hospitals. ¹ UHS opened applications on 7 November 2025 and closed them on 21 November 2025. ²

Sahiwal Medical College open-merit aggregates rose in each of the last four sessions. The closing aggregate moved from 85.3% in 2022 to 86.5% in 2023, then to 89.35% in 2024 and 93.6606% in 2025.

The 2025 figure is the largest single-session rise on this page. It sits close to the other Punjab public colleges of the same year. The rise from 2024 to 2025 is 4.31 percentage points. SSC stands for the matriculation examination, HSSC for the intermediate examination and MDCAT for the entry test.

UHS sets the aggregate with three components: 10% SSC, 40% HSSC and 50% MDCAT. ¹² Compare sessions with care. The MDCAT mark scale changed from 210 to 200 to 180 across years. ⁶ One percentage point does not mean the same raw score in every row.

Sahiwal Teaching Hospital is the main clinical site for the students. ¹ The prospectus records 1,150 beds at the hospital. ¹ The hospital serves as the referral centre for the Sahiwal division. ⁴ The referral area covers the districts of Sahiwal, Okara and Pakpattan. ⁴

Two further sites carry clinical work. Government Haji Abdul Qayyum Teaching Hospital holds 120 beds, and the Mini Hospital at Ghalla Mandi holds 4 beds. ¹ The three sites give students a wide range of patients.

Students meet patients on the wards and in the emergency department under supervision. ¹ The high patient flow supports bedside teaching. Postgraduate training in the recognised specialties runs in the same hospitals. ¹ The three sites together serve the division as a referral network. ⁴

The prospectus lists the three hospitals with the college for the 2025-26 session. ¹ The three hospitals work as one training network for the MBBS program. ¹ Students rotate through the three sites during the clinical years. ¹

The campus covers 62 acres in Sahiwal. ¹ It holds a multi-storey academic block, an administrative block, a library, a conference room, lecture theatres and laboratories. ¹ The campus cost Rs. 1 billion to build. ¹ The campus sits on Medical College Road in Sahiwal. ¹

The college runs one hostel for male students and two hostels for female students. ¹ Transport and canteen services work on campus. ¹ The hostels sit on or near the campus grounds. The hostel block stands near the academic blocks on the campus. ¹

Sports facilities cover cricket, football, volleyball, badminton and basketball. ¹ The college annual magazine is Zahrawi, and the alumni body is SLMC Alumni. ¹

The prospectus records 569 enrolled students and 91 academic staff. ¹ A digital library and an e-learning laboratory support the study work on the campus. The e-learning laboratory runs computer-based sessions for the students. ¹

PMDC recognises the college. ²⁴ The prospectus records that the college and its allied hospitals hold PMDC, CPSP and UHS recognition for postgraduate training. ¹ PMDC recognition covers the five-year MBBS degree at the college. ²⁴

The directory record also lists the college in the World Directory of Medical Schools, with ECFMG eligibility for graduates. The UHS public-sector notice lists the college among the public medical colleges of Punjab for 2025-26. ²

The UHS prospectus carries the seat allocation and the aggregate formula for the session. ¹⁶ The prospectus carries the fee structure and the seat rules for the session. ¹

Male students live in one hostel and female students in two hostels on or near the campus. ¹ The canteen and the transport service support daily campus life. ¹ The auditorium holds college functions and departmental events. ¹

Students play cricket, football, volleyball, badminton and basketball on the college grounds. ¹ The annual magazine Zahrawi carries student work. ¹ The sports grounds hold practice sessions outside the class hours. ¹

Sahiwal sits in an agricultural district of central Punjab. ⁴ The prospectus records 569 enrolled students, which keeps the campus at a small scale. ¹ The library, the auditorium and the sports grounds serve the students outside class hours. ¹ The campus therefore keeps a close student community across the session.