By Our Reportet
ISLAMABAD : The regulator has announced the holding of the next nationwide test to enrol students in the medical and dental graduate programmes across the country in the middle of November on the same day.
However, the final date for the Medical and Dental Colleges’ admission test will be declared shortly, according to the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC).
The announcement came following a meeting of the PMC’s supreme decision-making body, Council, here with all members, including vice-president Dr Khurshid Ahmad Nasim, Lt-General Nigar Johar, Dr Muhammad Fakhr-e-Alam, Jawad Amin Khan, Barrister Chaudhry Sultan Mansoor, M Shabbir Kasbati, Prof Naqibullah Achakzai and Prof Muhammad Zubair Khan in attendance.
According to the PMC, it has decided in consultation with the relevant government universities that the MDCAT will be held on November 13 or November 20 at the same time at the Bolan University of Medical and Health Sciences Quetta (for Balochistan), University of Health Sciences Lahore (for Punjab), Khyber Medical University Peshawar (for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Dow University of Health Sciences Karachi (for Sindh), Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University Islamabad (for Islamabad Capital Territory, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan).
With the minimum pass percentage of 55 for the MBBS course and 45 for the BDS programme, the admission criteria will be based on the MDCAT results (50 per cent), FSc exam results (40 per cent) and SSC exam results (10 per cent). There will be no change in the syllabus for the test as already announced by the PMC.
The Council relaxed the pass percentage to help more and more candidates get adjusted in medical and dental colleges as last year, almost 20,000 students went abroad for medical and dental courses causing a huge financial loss to the country.
