Bakhtawar Amin Medical and Dental College

INTRODUCTION

Bakhtawar Amin Medical and Dental College (BAMDC) is a prestigious college located in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. It was established by Bakhtawar Amin Hospital in the memory of Mian Muhammed Rasheed Bakhtawar Amin. Bakhtawar Amin Medical and Dental College – (BAMDC) is affiliated with the University of Health Sciences, Lahore. The college has a very well built campus covering 48 acres of land and has many facilities for its students and staff. Bakhtawar Amin Hospital is also located nearby and serves as a teaching hospital for the medical college, with 500 beds and top-notch facilities in every department. Bakhtawar Amin Medical and Dental College is committed to providing world-class education and research to all its students. The college aims in practicing compassionate, analytical, and ethical approaches in the delivery of health care. Bakhtawar Amin Medical and Dental College – (BAMDC) also provides gateways for continuing professional development for the doctors to improve the standards of care in their respective fields.

ADMISSION PROCEDURE

For the candidates applying following is the eligibility criteria:

The applicant who is willing to appear in the MCAT examination must have passed the intermediate in the medical subjects, which are: Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Physics, and English from any of the recognized colleges.
For the above subjects, the applicant must have passed them with 60% or more marks which makes the score at least 660 out of a total 1100 marks in the intermediate.

NOTE: These marks should be 60% excluding the additional marks awarded on the basis of Hafiz-e-Quran. The applicants who have passed their A-Levels examination under the Cambridge Board UK must also have 60% marks in all the major subjects and such applicants are being liable to submit their equivalence certificate which is being issued by the Inter-Board Committee of Chairmen (IBCC) Pakistan.

The applicants who are having the Domicile of Punjab and Federal Capital Area; Islamabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and the applicants belonging to the province of Gilgit-Baltistan are being eligible to apply for the MCAT examination which is to be held in Punjab and they are also being prescribed to bring their Domicile with themselves as without it they will not be accommodated in the MCAT examination.
The Pakistanis who have dual nationality are necessarily required to appear in the SAT II examination before appearing in the MCAT. The applicants are being prescribed to obtain at least a minimum of 550 marks in the SAT II examination so that they can avail the admission under the seats which are being reserved for them under the Pakistan Technical Assistance Program (PTAP) and Self Finance Schemes (SFS).

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED:

Application Form duly filled by the candidate.
Original & 6 Photocopies of Secondary School Certificates (Matric Certificate) / O-Level along with Equivalence Certificates.
Original & 6 Photocopies of Certificates / Detailed Marks of F.Sc. (Pre Medical) / A-Level along with Equivalence Certificates.
Original & 6 Photocopies of Provisional / Certificate / Character of college last attended.
Original & 6 Photocopies of Domicile Certificate.
Six Photocopies of CNIC or B-Form.
Ten latest passport size photographs (sky blue background) duly attested by Govt. Officer Grade-17 or above (one on front and rest on the back).
Six latest photos size (1×1), sky blue background.
Original Board Migration Certificate / NOC in case of F.Sc. from Federal Board.
Result Card of Entry Test (UHS).
Surety Bond (specimen enclosed) on a stamp paper of worth Rs. 100/- duly attested by Notary Public and the 1st Class Magistrate.
Affidavit declaration certificates by the parents/guardian on stamp paper Rs 100/- duly attested by Notary Public and 1st Class Magistrate.
Undertaking agreement by the student on stamp paper Rs. 100/- duly attested by Notary Public and the 1st Class Magistrate.
The certificate that you have been vaccinated against Tetanus, Measles, Mumps & Rubella.
The certificate that you have been vaccinated against Tetanus, Measles, Mumps & Rubella and you have the full course of immunization against Hepatitis “B” Virus
Photocopy of SAT-II score.
Photocopy of Passport.

ADMISSION TEST

After clearing the eligibility criteria the candidate has to appear for the UHS exam. UHS conducts the entrance exam once a year whose results are valid for a year. The candidate applying has to undergo the MDCAT test. The test is of two and a half hours consisting of 220 MCQs, divided into four sections, namely:

Biology – (88 MCQs)
Chemistry – (58 MCQs)
Physics – (44 MCQs)
English (General) – (30 MCQs)

For each correct answer, the candidate gets 5 marks while for every wrong answer 1 mark is deducted. The maximum marks a candidate can score are 1100. The test is conducted in 13 major cities of Pakistan which are as follows:

Bahawalpur
Multan
Rahim Yar Khan
G. Khan
Lahore
Faisalabad
Sahiwal
Gujrat
Gujranwala
Sargodha
Sialkot
Rawalpindi
Hasan Abdal

DEPARTMENTS

BASIC SCIENCES

Anatomy
Biochemistry
Pharmacology
Physiology
Community Medicine
Physiotherapy

CLINICAL

MEDICINE
SURGERY
OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY
OPHTHALMOLOGY
OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY
MISCELLANEOUS

PROGRAMS OFFERED

BACHELOR OF MEDICINE AND BACHELOR OF SURGERY (MBBS)

The program is 5 year long and students develop their technical skills in the first 2 years after which emphasis is also laid upon clinical medical skills under the supervision of teaching staff and consultants

FACILITIES

Bakhtawar Amin Medical and Dental College – (BAMDC) provides state-of-the-art facilities to its students ranging from the library, lecture halls, museums, a hostel for boys and girls, sports facilities, and many more.

AUDITORIUM

The auditorium has a seating capacity of around 750 people and has all the latest technology installed..

LIBRARY

The library is located in a three-story building along with an IT lab. It has various books related to the curriculum and many reference books as well, along with this there is an E-library where students can access numerous online books and journals. Air-condition and wifi-facility is available as well.

MUSEUMS

For a better understanding of students, the college has museums in many departments which display labeled specimens, models, and charts. There is an Anatomy Museum, Pathology Museum, Microbiology museum, and a Community Medicine museum.

HOSTEL

The college has well-furnished hostels for both; boys and girls with the facility of TV, gym, air-conditioning, mess as well as a mosque on the premises of the hostel. To attain hostel accommodation, the submission of an application is necessary. After the approval of the application, the candidate has to pay the fee within 5 days Apart from all these facilities the campus also has a book shop so that students have easy access to books they want to purchase. There are four lecture halls with a seating capacity of 150 students and two examination halls with a capacity of 110. All the lecture halls are equipped with white boars, multi-media, projector, flat-screen computer, wifi-connection, and air-conditioning. The campus also has a neat cafeteria were economical, hygienic, and tasty food is served.

STUDENT LIFE

Firstly, if you make it this far, then congratulations! Because getting into a medical college is no less than a challenge, not only in Pakistan but all over the world too. And if you get selected in Bakhtawar Amin Medical and Dental College – (BAMDC) then you are definitely one of the hard workers who deserve that their talent is groomed by one of the best professionals of the medical industry. By the intention of preparing you for the future we would like to point out that life at a medical college is not easy, may it be any medical college. Even the most intelligent and hardworking people sometimes find themselves frustrated and tangled in all the work along with extra-curricular activities. So to give you a heads up and a few guidelines on how to deal with basic issues that students may face in a medical college are listed below:

Managing Time

The hardest thing to do at not just a medical college but at any university is managing time. If you don’t get to it in your first few days, you will have to face a lot of extra hardships later on. To avoid that, in the first few days at your college, take note of how things work, what processes are followed, and what goes where, etc. Once you get the gist of it all, make a rough schedule. Compartmentalize your work. Assign a time to each task and try to complete it in the assigned time. The more you keep on your schedule the easier things will get. Next, start making a daily to-do list. All the homework, assignment, or any other task that you get, should go into that to-do list with a due date. Use applications to set reminders to help you complete your work before the due date. What is even better is that you don’t leave the tasks to the last minute. Procrastination will have to wait. Getting to your tasks as soon as possible will help save you from a lot of future trouble. Keeping a list of all the tasks with their due dates and following a schedule regularly will make sure that you never miss a deadline.

Self Help

As stated above, the University or College life differs a lot from school life. Here, only attending lectures may not be enough. One should follow a proper schedule and set aside time for regular catching-up on studies. Sometimes a person finds themselves in a condition where lectures are just not helping them learn, what they can do is turn to either a friend or a TA for guidance. They should never consider this useless, or something that they may overcome on their own, asking for help will actually get you to help in these situations. Ask an intelligent class fellow to sit with you and help you study or conduct group study sessions, they have shown to work wonders. But never think that you have to go through this alone. Learn from others, ask them to teach you, and teach them yourself too, which can help with retaining your knowledge.

Dr. Najeeb Lectures

In the off-chance that you find yourself in a situation described above, and none of the above-mentioned methods work, or even if you don’t feel like trying out all of them just yet, you can always go to Dr. Najeeb’s Lectures for help. These are video lectures which are a great source for self-studying. Dr. Najeeb’s Lectures are the world’s most popular medical Lectures, covering all the topics of Gross Anatomy, Neuro-anatomy, Embryology, Histology, Physiology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Pharmacology, Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology. These lectures cover almost all the topics in the current medical curriculum of most medical colleges. They contain visualization of what you study in your books. The hand-drawn illustrations in these lectures make it very easy to grasp the concepts. Furthermore, one can get lifetime access to these lectures and even download the app to avail them anytime, anywhere.

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Reward Yourself

From the tough competition, rigorous studying, constant exams, and all that hard work, it is necessary for you to take some time out for yourself. Self-care is very important if you wish to succeed at anything in life. So to relax and take some time off from all the hard work, just ease your mind. Find a hobby or anything that would qualify as extracurricular and take out some time from your busy schedule for this. You need to reward yourself for your continuous hardships. Apart from that, it helps you have a fresh mind when you go back to your work so maybe you could learn better or come up with more creative things. Best of luck!