Services Institute of Medical Sciences

Services Institute of Medical Sciences is a public medical college on Ghaus-ul-Azam (Jail) Road in Lahore. It offers the MBBS program, which runs for five years. ¹⁴

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 institute in their preference list. ²³ A domicile certificate from any district of Punjab satisfies the domicile rule for open merit. ²

The institute started in 2003 on the grounds of Services Hospital Lahore. ¹ The Chief Minister of Punjab abolished the self-financed seats in 2008, and the institute then worked on open merit. ¹

Services Hospital is the attached teaching hospital. ¹ The prospectus gives 220 MBBS seats for the 2025-26 session, with 211 on open merit. ¹ The institute runs a department of medical education with the basic and clinical departments. ⁴ Classes for the session began on 2 February 2026. ²

The institute began as a unique self-financed body for medical students. ¹ The prospectus records the establishment date as 25 February 2003. ¹ The first classes ran at PGMI, the old Allama Iqbal Medical College on Bird Road in Lahore. ¹ The college now works under the public sector admission system of Punjab. ²

The Chief Minister of Punjab abolished all self-financed medical and dental seats in 2008. ¹ The institute then worked as an open-merit college. ¹ Open merit then decided every seat in the MBBS program. ¹ The 2008 decision therefore ended the self-financed seats at the institute. ¹

The teaching disciplines moved to Services Hospital and the new building that faces Race Course Park on Jail Road. ¹ The new building stands opposite Race Course Park in central Lahore. ¹ It holds academic departments, lecture theatres, an auditorium, classrooms, laboratories and student libraries. ¹

The Skill Development Centre and the experimental laboratory run as the practical teaching units. ¹ The institute publishes Esculapio, a journal that PMDC recognises. ¹ Students prepare the annual magazine SIMSONIAN, and the alumni body is SIMSAA. ¹

The prospectus records Zohra Khanum as principal of the institute. ¹ The college site records Shoaib Nabi Buzdar in the same role. ⁴ The website lists a department of medical education with the basic and clinical sciences departments. ⁴

For the 2025-26 session, UHS opened online applications on 7 November 2025 and closed them on 21 November 2025. ² Classes began on 2 February 2026 for the MBBS program. ² The provisional merit list came on 26 November 2025, and the final order of merit came on 28 November 2025. ²

The prospectus records the seat allocation for the session at 220 MBBS seats, with 211 on open merit. ¹ Wikipedia records Services Hospital as the teaching hospital for the institute. ⁵ The seat allocation therefore sits with the public round of UHS. ¹²

Services Institute of Medical Sciences open-merit aggregates stayed high in each of the last four sessions. The closing aggregate moved from 89.5% in 2022 to 90.85% in 2023, then to 90.8% in 2024 and 94.2273% in 2025.

The 2025 figure is the highest closing aggregate on this page. The 2024 figure sits marginally below the 2023 figure. The rise from 2024 to 2025 is 3.43 percentage points. SSC stands for the matriculation examination and HSSC for the intermediate examination.

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.

Services Hospital Lahore is the teaching hospital for the institute. ¹ Wikipedia records that the hospital started in 1958 as a small outdoor hospital for government employees, with 60 beds. ⁵ The institute sits on the grounds of the hospital. ¹

The hospital now holds about 1,200 beds across 31 departments, with 27 major and 8 minor operating theatres. ⁵ The UHS prospectus records 1,630 beds at the hospital. ¹ The hospital grew from 60 beds in 1958 to the current bed count. ⁵

A dedicated radiology and specialties block carries purpose-built wards for neurology, pulmonology, thoracic surgery, dermatology, neurosurgery and ENT. ¹ Students rotate through these wards during the clinical years. ¹

The hospital runs a seven-storey outpatient department for 16 specialties, with two paediatric wards, one endocrinology ward and one psychiatry ward. ¹ Punjab Healthcare Commission licenses the hospital. ¹ CPSP, UHS and PMDC recognise it for postgraduate training. ¹ The postgraduate training therefore runs inside these departments of the hospital. ¹

The institute sits on Ghaus-ul-Azam (Jail) Road in Lahore, opposite Race Course Park. ¹⁴ The location also gives the institute a central address in Lahore. ¹⁴

The building holds academic departments, lecture theatres, an auditorium, classrooms, laboratories and student libraries. ¹ The Skill Development Centre and the experimental laboratory run practical sessions. ¹ The auditorium holds lectures and college events for the students. ¹

The college site keeps a library, an HEC digital library, a student facilitation desk and a notifications desk. ⁴ The campus holds a clinical simulation laboratory and a digital learning resource centre for the students. ⁴ These facilities sit on the same site as the college. ⁴

Hostel capacity at the institute is small. ¹ The prospectus records that the hostel is managed through rental buildings in addition to a few rooms at the institute. ¹ The hostel keeps the resident students close to the classes. ¹

PMDC recognises the MBBS program. ² PMDC recognition covers the five-year MBBS degree at the institute. ² The prospectus records that Services Hospital holds PMDC, CPSP and UHS recognition for postgraduate training and a licence from the Punjab Healthcare Commission. ¹

The institute publishes Esculapio, a journal that PMDC recognises. ¹

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

Hostel rooms are limited, so many students rent rooms near the campus. ¹ The prospectus records that the hostel runs through rental buildings in addition to a few rooms at the institute. ¹ The rooms at the institute form a small part of the hostel capacity. ¹

Students use the library and the HEC digital library outside class hours. ⁴ The auditorium and the lecture theatres carry the classes and the seminars. ¹ The auditorium also holds college functions outside the class hours. ¹

Sports, transport and canteen services work on the campus. ¹ Students prepare the annual magazine SIMSONIAN with the faculty. ¹ The campus sits on Jail Road in central Lahore, close to Race Course Park. ¹ The alumni body SIMSAA keeps the graduates in contact with the institute. ¹