Staff Reporter
Islamabad: The Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) said there’s no change in the syllabus for the upcoming Medical and Dental Colleges Admission Test.
“The MDCAT 2022 will be held on November 13 under the syllabus, which is already available on our [PMC’s] official website. We will provide public sector universities with question banks, whose use will be optional for them,” the regulator for medical and dental education in the country said after a meeting of its supreme decision-making body, Council, here.
According to the PMC, which was reconstituted by the prime minister on September 7, 2022, almost 0.21 million candidates have got themselves registered for MDCAT, whereas the seats for new admission to medical and dental colleges in the country are 20,800. The MDCAT will be held on a single day (November 13) at the Bolan University of Medical and Health Sciences (Baluchistan), University of Health Services (Punjab), Khyber Medical University (KPK), Dow University of Health Sciences (Sindh), Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University (Islamabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and Gilgit-Baltistan.
The PMC said all vice-chancellors of public universities and important stakeholders had been taken on board about the MDCAT. The exam conducting universities will decide on the modalities of conducting exam i.e. either by themselves or through testing agency.
