Dental Section, Frontier Medical College

Overview

Dental Section, Frontier Medical College is a private medical institution in Abbottabad, KPK. It admits MBBS students through the PMDC-MDCAT route.

History & background

Frontier Medical & Dental College (FMC) Abbottabad was established in 1995 by the Al-Jamil Trust on roughly 200 kanals of land in the rural outskirts of Abbottabad along the Karakoram Highway, and was formally registered with regulators in 2005 (Registration No. 036). The dental section trains BDS students alongside the college's MBBS, nursing and paramedic programs; a specific founding date for the dental section alone is not independently documented.

Location

Abbottabad is a hill city in the Hazara region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, originally founded as a British cantonment in 1853, and has grown into an educational and medical-training hub for the province.

Faculties & departments

Standard MBBS/BDS department structure — not independently confirmed for this specific college.

• Oral Anatomy
• Dental Materials
• Operative Dentistry
• Prosthodontics
• Orthodontics
• Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Periodontology
• Oral Pathology
• Oral Medicine
• Community Dentistry

Courses offered

• BDS

Student body

Total enrollment figures are not publicly published; PMDC's college list allocates 50 BDS seats annually to the dental section.

Notable facts

• Founded by the Al-Jamil Trust in 1995 at the foothills of a pine forest on the Karakoram Highway
• Affiliated with Khyber Medical University (KMU)
• Trains medical, dental, nursing and paramedic students on a shared campus

Admission criteria

Merit at Dental Section, Frontier Medical College is computed under the standard weightage: Matric 10% + FSc/HSSC 40% + entrance test 50%. Minimum FSc 60% and a qualifying PMDC-MDCAT score are required to be eligible.

Eligibility

• FSc Pre-Medical (or equivalent) with at least 60% marks
• Qualifying PMDC-MDCAT score, at or above the published cutoff
• Domicile / provincial quota requirements as published by the college
• Age, medical fitness, and character certificate per PMDC rules

Application process

1. Appear in the PMDC-MDCAT and clear the cutoff.
2. Apply through the central admissions portal for PMDC-MDCAT.
3. Submit FSc, Matric, entrance-test, domicile and CNIC documents.
4. Wait for the merit list; confirm your seat and deposit dues at Dental Section, Frontier Medical College.

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