Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Medical and Dental College

Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Medical and Dental College is a public medical college in Lahore. ³ It teaches the MBBS and BDS programs. ¹ The federal government holds administrative control under a letter dated 1 October 2020. ²

The college sits inside the Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex in New Muslim Town, Lahore. ⁶ The complex holds the college and the attached Shaikh Zayed Hospital. ¹ The hospital gives the students their clinical rotation places. ¹

Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University is the admitting university for this college. ³⁴ SZABMU publishes the seat allocation and the merit lists. ⁴⁷ The University of Health Sciences Lahore awards the degree and holds the examinations. ³

SZABMU publishes 100 MBBS seats for this college in the 2025-26 round. ⁴ The college admission page records Rs. 39,530 as the first-year fee for the session. ² The merit lists appear in the uploads section of the admission page. ²⁷

The Shaikh Zayed Postgraduate Medical Institute commissioned on 8 September 1986. ¹ The institute ran postgraduate medical training in Lahore for many years. ¹ It built the clinical base that the college uses today. ¹⁶ The institute stands in New Muslim Town, Lahore. ⁶

Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Medical and Dental College joined the complex as a component in 2009. ¹³ President Asif Ali Zardari inaugurated the college in the same year. ³ The directory record also gives 2009 as the founding year.

The first student batch graduated at the end of 2014. ³ The batch completed the five-year MBBS program at the complex. ³ The college therefore completed its first full MBBS cycle by 2014. ³ The college site records the graduation of the first batch. ¹

The college works under the federal government from a letter dated 1 October 2020. ² The admission page records this change of administrative control. ²

The campus covers 55 acres opposite Punjab University Lahore. ³ It holds the basic science departments, the administration block, the library, lecture theatres and a cafeteria. ³ Student residencies and an auditorium stand on the campus. ¹ The college and the hospital share one complex. ¹⁶ Sports run at the kidney centre playground inside the complex. ³

The hospital runs divisions of medicine, surgery, pathology and radiology. ⁶ The college teaches the basic subjects in the first two years. ¹ The clinical subjects follow in the teaching hospital. ¹⁶ The clinical rotation covers these divisions during the later years. ¹⁶

For the 2025-26 session, the college admission page lists the fee structure and the admission steps. ² The admission page publishes the fee structure for each session. ² The first merit list appeared in December 2025. ⁷ The list carried a fee payment deadline of 10 December 2025. ⁷ SZABMU sets the merit criteria for the round. ⁴

The open-merit aggregates for MBBS rose in each of the last four sessions. The closing aggregate moved from 85.8% in 2022 to 87.1% in 2023. It then moved to 90.1% in 2024 and to 94.75% in 2025.

The BDS aggregate moved from 83.4% in 2022 to 84.55% in 2023 and to 85.45% in 2024. The 2025 closing aggregate stayed at 85.45%. The program held its level in the latest session. The MBBS rise from 2024 to 2025 is 4.65 percentage points.

SZABMU sets the aggregate with three components: 50% MDCAT, 40% HSSC and 10% SSC. ⁴⁵ Compare sessions with care. The MDCAT mark scale changed from 210 to 200 to 180 across years. ⁸ One percentage point does not mean the same raw score in every row.

Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore is the attached teaching hospital. ¹ The hospital and the college sit in the same complex in New Muslim Town. ⁶ The college site names the hospital as the teaching base. ¹ Students train inside these wards during the clinical years. ¹⁶

The directory record lists 1,050 beds at the hospital. The hospital site records the address at University Avenue, New Muslim Town, Lahore. ⁶ The site also lists the switchboard numbers shown in the contact block. ⁶ The address in the contact block belongs to the hospital. ⁶

The hospital runs kidney transplant and liver transplant units. ⁶ It also runs cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, gastroenterology and endoscopy. ⁶ The hospital site lists the transplant units as the specialties of the complex. ⁶ Students meet these specialties during the clinical rotation. ¹⁶

The hospital site lists divisions of medicine, surgery, pathology and radiology. ⁶ The college teaches the clinical subjects inside these divisions. ¹ The rotation years therefore run on the hospital wards. ¹⁶

The campus covers 55 acres opposite Punjab University Lahore. ³ It holds the basic science departments, the administration block, the library, lecture theatres and a cafeteria. ³ The layout keeps the departments, the library and the lecture halls on one site. ³ The college and the hospital share one complex. ¹⁶

The directory record lists five campus facilities. They are the clinical units of Shaikh Zayed Hospital, the National Health Research Complex, a digital library, student residencies and an auditorium. ¹

The college site records a digital library, student residencies and an auditorium on the campus. ¹ The complex holds the research block and the clinical units. ¹⁶

The lecture theatres and the cafeteria serve the daily schedule of the students. ³ The library on the campus supports self-study between classes. ¹³ The campus sits on University Avenue at New Muslim Town. ⁶

PMDC recognises the MBBS program at the college. ³ SZABMU states the merit criteria for the program in its admission notice. ⁴

The degree is awarded and examined by the University of Health Sciences Lahore. ³ The admitting university publishes the merit lists for the college. ⁴⁷ SZABMU publishes the seat allocation for both programs. ⁴⁵

The SZABMU admission pages publish the rules for both the MBBS and the BDS program. ⁴⁵ 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 student residencies on the campus. ¹³ The college site records the student residencies among its campus facilities. ¹ The residencies sit inside the medical complex in New Muslim Town. ⁶ The lecture halls and the hospital therefore sit a short walk from the hostels.

The campus holds a library, lecture theatres and a cafeteria. ³ The college site records a digital library for the students. ¹ The auditorium holds college events and departmental sessions. ¹³ Students use the library for study between classes. ¹³

Sports run at the kidney centre playground in the complex. ³ Students play cricket, football and hockey there. ³ The playground stands inside the medical complex. ³ The cafeteria and the library serve the students between classes. ¹³