Shahida Islam Medical College

Shahida Islam Medical College is a private medical college at Lodhran in South Punjab. The college teaches the MBBS program, which runs for five years. ²

The UHS private-sector notice lists the college for the 2025-26 round. ⁴ The University of Health Sciences Lahore runs the admission round for private medical colleges in Punjab. ⁴ Applicants register on the UHS private admission portal and name the college in their preference list. ⁴ For the 2025-26 round, UHS opened applications on 7 November 2025 and closed them on 21 November 2025. ⁴

The campus sits on the Multan-Bahawalpur Road at Lodhran. ³ The college works inside the Shahida Islam Medical Complex. ¹ The complex holds a medical college, a dental college, a rehabilitation sciences college and a nursing college. ¹ It also holds a paramedical school, a college of pharmacy and a teaching hospital. ¹

The attached Shahida Islam Teaching Hospital gives students the clinical rotation places. ²⁴ The UHS notice also lists the Shahida Islam Dental College at Lodhran in the same round. ⁴

The project started in 2013. ² The plan covered a medical college, a dental college and a teaching hospital for the district of Lodhran. The project therefore brought tertiary healthcare to the district of Lodhran. ²

The campus opened at Lodhran in 2016. ² The college sits on the Multan-Bahawalpur Road, between Multan and Bahawalpur. ³ The about page records the campus as established in 2016. ² The campus opened for teaching in 2016 after the plan of 2013. ²

The first MBBS batch joined in the 2016-17 session. ² The batch began the five-year program with the basic science subjects. The first batch therefore started the MBBS program at the new campus. ²

Shahida Islam Teaching Hospital opened in 2016 with the campus. ² The hospital runs a free bed service and a free outpatient department for the district. ² The hospital therefore carries the clinical care of the complex from 2016. ¹²

Postgraduate teaching started in 2019 in six disciplines. ² The college therefore trains students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the same site. ¹² The six disciplines therefore give postgraduate training at the same site as the MBBS program. ² The postgraduate trainees work in the same hospital as the MBBS students. ²

The complex now holds seven institutes. ¹ These cover medicine, dentistry, physiotherapy, nursing, paramedical science and pharmacy, with the teaching hospital as the clinical base. ¹² The seven institutes therefore share one campus at Lodhran. ¹ The UHS notice lists the dental college as entry 15 among the private dental colleges. ⁴

The UHS private-sector notice lists the college as entry 26 among the private medical colleges of Punjab for the 2025-26 session. ⁴ UHS opened online applications on 7 November 2025 and closed them on 21 November 2025. ⁴ The final order of merit came on 15 December 2025. ⁴ Classes for the session began on 2 February 2026. ⁴

The self-finance closing aggregates for both programs rose in the latest session. The MBBS aggregate moved from 80.5% in 2024 to 83.6% in 2025. The BDS aggregate moved from 77.9% in 2024 to 81% in 2025.

The MBBS rise is 3.1 percentage points, and the BDS rise is 3.1 percentage points. The two programs therefore moved together in the latest session.

UHS sets the aggregate with three components: 10% SSC, 40% HSSC and 50% MDCAT. ⁴⁵ SSC stands for the matriculation examination, HSSC for the intermediate examination and MDCAT for the entry test. 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.

Shahida Islam Teaching Hospital is the attached clinical base. ² The hospital and the college sit on the same campus at Lodhran. ¹³ The contact block gives the address of the campus on the Multan-Bahawalpur Road. ³ The hospital gives the students their clinical training for the MBBS program. ²

The hospital opened in 2016 with the college. ² It runs a free outpatient department and free bed service for the district. ² The hospital brought tertiary medical care to the district of Lodhran. ²

The complex records the hospital as a 500-bed facility that covers medicine, surgery and the specialties. Students rotate through the wards, the emergency unit and the operation theatres during the clinical years. ¹ The 500-bed capacity therefore supports the clinical workload of the program. ¹ The wards, the emergency unit and the operation theatres form the rotation sites. ¹

Postgraduate teaching in six disciplines runs in the hospital from 2019. ² Students therefore meet postgraduate trainees and faculty during their clinical work. ¹² The six disciplines therefore run inside the hospital where the students train. ²

The campus sits on the Multan-Bahawalpur Road at Lodhran. ³ The road links Lodhran to Multan and to Bahawalpur. The contact block gives the full road address of the campus. ³

The campus holds a hostel block, the attached hospital, a mosque, computer laboratories, a library, a cafeteria and multimedia halls. ¹² The hostel block stands on the same site as the college. ¹

The college runs a clinical skills laboratory and modern laboratories for medicine, dentistry, physiotherapy, nursing and paramedical science. ² The library and the IT facilities serve the students on the campus. ² The laboratories support the classes of the allied institutes of the complex. ²

Student transport runs between the campus and the hostels. ² The campus holds a central digital library and a simulation laboratory for the students. Students therefore use the digital library outside the class hours. ²

The UHS private-sector notice lists the college among the private medical colleges of Punjab for the 2025-26 session. ⁴ The same notice lists the Shahida Islam Dental College at Lodhran among the private dental colleges. ⁴ The notice therefore places both programs of the complex in the private round. ⁴

PMDC recognises the MBBS and BDS programs. ⁴ The MBBS program runs for five years at the college. ²

The directory record also lists the college in the World Directory of Medical Schools, with ECFMG eligibility for graduates and CPSP accreditation.

Students live in the hostel on the campus. ¹² The hostel sits next to the teaching hospital, so clinical duty takes a short walk. The hostel therefore keeps the resident students on one site with the classes. ¹

The campus holds a mosque, a cafeteria and computer laboratories. ¹ Students use the mosque between the classes. ¹ The cafeteria serves meals to the students on the campus. ¹ Multimedia halls carry classes, seminars and events. ¹ The transport service links the hostel rooms to the classes. ²

The college runs a research block and the laboratories for the allied institutes of the complex. ¹² The research block works alongside the laboratories of the complex. ¹ The nursing and paramedical institutes share the campus with the medical college. ¹