Shalamar Medical and Dental College

Shalamar Medical and Dental College is a private medical college in northern Lahore. It teaches MBBS and BDS programs. ¹ The campus stands near the historic Shalimar Gardens in the northern part of the city. ³⁴

The University of Health Sciences Lahore runs the admission round for private medical colleges in Punjab. ⁶ Applicants register on the UHS private admission portal and name the college in their preference list. ⁶ The UHS private-sector notice lists the college for the 2025-26 session. ⁶

The college works under the Shalamar Institute of Health Sciences. ² The institute holds the medical, nursing and allied health units of the group. ² The attached Shalamar Hospital gives students the clinical rotation places. ¹²

The annual intake grew from 100 to 150 seats. ² The college serves more than 700 students across its programs. ² The dataset record lists 150 MBBS seats and 75 BDS seats for the college.

The Businessmen Hospital Trust started in 1974. ² A group of businessmen created the trust for charity work in Lahore. ² The trust took the hospital as its first project. ²

The trust built Shalamar Hospital as its first project. It began with 100 beds and grew to a 500-bed teaching facility. ² Wikipedia records the hospital as opened in 1982 under the trust. ⁵ The Wikipedia article on the hospital names the Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar family as its founder. ⁵

The trust added a nursing school in 2006. ² It added the Shalamar School of Allied Health Sciences in 2015. ² The trust runs the nursing school and the allied health school with the college. ² The nursing and allied health schools serve the hospital and the college. ²

The homepage and Wikipedia record the founding year of the college as 2009. ¹⁴ The about page records the college as established in 2010, after construction finished in 2009. ² The directory record also gives 2009 as the founding year.

The first batch of medical students enrolled in the 2009-10 academic session. ² Syed Babar Ali is named as the founder of the college. ⁴ The annual intake grew from 100 to 150 seats over the years. ² The dataset record lists a five-year MBBS program and a four-year BDS program.

The college operates under the Shalamar Institute of Health Sciences and serves more than 700 students. ² The principal of the college is Prof. Zahid Bashir. ¹ The college website records the programs, the faculty and the student services on the campus. ¹

For the 2025-26 session, UHS opened online applications on 7 November 2025 and closed them on 21 November 2025. ⁶ The final order of merit came on 15 December 2025. ⁶ Classes for the MBBS program began on 2 February 2026. ⁶

The self-finance closing aggregates held a high level in each of the last four sessions. The MBBS aggregate moved from 83.45% in 2022 to 84.95% in 2023, then to 84.8% in 2024 and 87.9% in 2025. The rise from 2024 to 2025 is 3.1 percentage points.

The BDS aggregate moved from 81% in 2022 to 82.3% in 2023 and to 83.1% in 2024. The 2025 closing aggregate stayed at 83.1%. The program therefore held its level in the latest session.

UHS sets the aggregate with three components: 10% SSC, 40% HSSC and 50% MDCAT. ⁶⁷ 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.

Shalamar Hospital is the attached teaching hospital. ¹² The hospital stands on Shalamar Link Road in Lahore, close to the college campus. ³⁵ The Businessmen Hospital Trust built the hospital as its first project. ²

The hospital began with 100 beds and now holds 500 beds. ²⁵ Wikipedia records the hospital as opened in 1982 under the trust. ⁵ The trust runs the hospital with the college and the two schools. ² The wards give the students their clinical rotation places. ¹²

The hospital runs an accident emergency and trauma unit. ⁵ It runs a burns and reconstructive surgery centre and a coronary care unit. ⁵ A dialysis centre and a blood bank serve the patients. ⁵

A catheterisation laboratory works inside the hospital. ⁵ The general operation theatre holds 10 rooms. ⁵ A diabetes and endocrine clinic runs inside the hospital as the SIDER unit. ⁵ The college website also names Fauji Foundation Hospital Lahore as an affiliated hospital for training. ⁴

The campus sits on Shalamar Link Road in northern Lahore, near the historic Shalimar Gardens. ³ The campus stands beside Shalamar Hospital in the northern part of the city. ¹³⁵

The campus holds lecture halls, laboratories, a library, a museum, a skills laboratory, a computer laboratory and an auditorium. ¹ The lecture halls and the laboratories hold the daily classes of the students. ¹

The college website records a food court, a gymnasium and hostel buildings for the students. ¹ The Shalamar Institute of Health Sciences runs the nursing and allied health units beside the college. ²

The college publishes the Journal of SMDC and runs the SeLMS and AXON student platforms. ¹ The directory record lists five campus facilities. They are the hospital wards, the health sciences institute, a digital medical library, student residencies and an auditorium. The college runs extracurricular activities along with the MBBS and BDS programs. ¹

PMDC recognises the MBBS and BDS programs, and the Ministry of Health of Pakistan approves the college. ¹⁶ The UHS private-sector notice lists the college for the 2025-26 admission round. ⁶

The college website records recognition by CPSP. ¹ It records inclusion in the FAIMER International Medical Education Directory and the WHO directory of medical colleges. ¹

Wikipedia records ECFMG eligibility for the graduates of the college. ⁴ It records listing in the World Directory of Medical Schools and recognition by HEC. ⁴ The directory record also lists CPSP accreditation for the college.

Students live in the hostel buildings on the campus. ¹ The campus sits on Shalamar Link Road in northern Lahore. ³ The campus holds a food court, a gymnasium and a computer laboratory for the students. ¹ The hostels stand next to the lecture halls and the laboratories. ¹

The auditorium holds seminars, conferences and student events. ¹ The college runs extracurricular activities along with the academic programs. ¹ The gymnasium and the food court serve the students between classes. ¹

The college website lists an MBBS enrichment program, postgraduate programs and clinical and research electives for the students. ¹ The nursing and allied health students share the campus with the medical students. ¹² The diploma in healthcare ethics runs as one of the student modules. ¹