Dental Section, Women Medical College

Overview

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

History & background

Women Medical College (WMC) Abbottabad was founded in 1999 as Pakistan's first private medical college exclusively for women, with classes starting in 2000. Its dental section was added to offer the BDS degree alongside the existing MBBS program; a specific founding year 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

• Parent college is housed in a historic Sikh-era residence known locally as 'Babu Eishwer Das Palace', on roughly 100 kanals of land
• Rehmat Memorial Dental Hospital is attached for BDS clinical teaching
• Recognized by PMDC and affiliated with Khyber Medical University (KMU)
• Parent institution was Pakistan's first private women-only medical college

Admission criteria

Merit at Dental Section, Women 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, Women Medical College.

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