Lahore Medical and Dental College (LMDC)

Lahore Medical and Dental College (LMDC) is a private college at Tulspura, on the North Canal Bank in Lahore. It runs MBBS and BDS programmes, and the University of Health Sciences (UHS) Lahore conducts admissions for both. ⁴ Applicants register on the UHS private-sector portal and list LMDC among their college preferences. ⁴

The college dates its foundation to 1997 and its own site calls it the first private medical college in Lahore. ¹ PMDC records 150 MBBS seats for the college ⁷ and 75 seats for its dental college. ⁸

Clinical teaching centres on Ghurki Trust Teaching Hospital, a listed teaching hospital in Lahore. ⁹ The campus also trains students at Doctors Hospital and lists Surgi-med Hospital among its associated hospitals. ¹

LMDC opened in 1997 on the North Canal Bank at Tulspura, Lahore. ¹ It belongs to the first generation of private medical colleges in the Punjab. Its own site describes it as the first private medical college in Lahore. ¹

The college grew around its clinical partners. Ghurki Trust Teaching Hospital serves as the main clinical site, and the campus lists Ghurki Trust Hospital, Surgi-med Hospital and Doctors Hospital as associated hospitals. ¹ A new teaching hospital rises inside the campus, and the site records that work is under way. ¹

The academic offer widened over the years. The site lists MBBS, BDS, Doctor of Pharmacy, Doctor of Physical Therapy, nutrition, biotechnology, nursing and paramedical streams. ¹ Nursing courses sit at the Doctors Hospital College of Nursing, and the Institute of Paramedical Education covers the paramedical courses. ¹

Academic governance shows in published documents. The college keeps a curriculum book written to PMDC standards, year-wise MBBS and BDS curriculum files and quality assurance manuals for both programmes. ¹ Students also reach the HEC digital library through the college entry. ¹

LMDC keeps an alumni office and publishes a newsletter, LMDC Pulse, with a June 2026 edition on the site. ¹ UHS runs the admission cycle for the 2025-26 session under the policy the Government of the Punjab notified on 22 October 2025. ⁴

UHS admits students to Punjab private colleges on one open merit list and an overseas quota. The admission policy for the 2026-27 session defines no self-finance category for the private sector. ¹⁰

Every aggregate follows the UHS formula: 50% MDCAT, 40% HSSC and 10% SSC. ⁴ UHS rounds the result up to four decimal places. ⁴

Compare the sessions with care. The MDCAT scale moved from 210 marks to 200 marks and then to 180 marks across these years. One percentage point is not one raw mark in every row.

Ghurki Trust Teaching Hospital is the main clinical site, and it holds a place on the Lahore hospital lists. ⁹ The college presents it as a centre for spine surgery, orthopaedic trauma and arthroscopy care, and the dataset records 600 beds there. ¹

The campus site lists Ghurki Trust Hospital, Surgi-med Hospital and Doctors Hospital as associated hospitals. ¹ Students meet patients under supervision in wards, specialty units and the emergency department during the clinical years.

The dental side works through the modern dental clinics recorded in our dataset. A new campus teaching hospital adds clinical space when it opens. ¹

The campus sits at Tulspura on the North Canal Bank in Lahore. ² Our facilities record lists on-campus hostels, a central digital library, modern dental clinics, Ghurki Trust Hospital wards and the spine centre and arthroscopy lab.

The site adds a campus mosque, computer labs, a library, cafeterias, multimedia halls and an auditorium. ¹ Courts and indoor games cover recreation on campus. ¹

A solar-powered green lab supplies part of the campus power, and the site describes it as 80% energy efficient. ¹ The library also opens the HEC digital library entry kept for LMDC. ¹ Hostels house students across the five-year MBBS course. ¹

PMDC lists Lahore Medical & Dental College among the private medical colleges of Punjab with 150 MBBS seats. ⁷ Its dental college sits among the PMDC private dental colleges with 75 seats. ⁸ Our recognition record also holds a WHO World Directory listing, ECFMG eligibility and CPSP accreditation.

The college site states accreditation by the Pakistan Medical Council, the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. ¹ UHS acts as the admitting university for Punjab and publishes all merit and selection lists on its own website. ⁴⁶

Most students live in the on-campus hostels, so daily life stays inside the college grounds. ¹ The campus keeps a mosque, cafeterias, an auditorium and courts for indoor games. ¹

Tulspura sits inside Lahore, and the city offers hospitals, libraries and public transport. ² The alumni office and the LMDC Pulse newsletter record campus events and graduate news. ¹