Description

The 4-year degree programme meets the requirements of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PM&DC). The specifically designed programme aims at exposing the students to real life problems, including radical art in clinical dental practice. The students are provided with a solid foundation in basic principles of medicine, diagnostics and surgical techniques to meet the challenges of the future in the field of dentistry.

The four-year degree programme of BDS meets the requirements of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council. It is a combination of hard-core subjects of dentistry with medical and basic sciences. Clinical training in the dental disciplines is imparted at the Armed Forces Institute of Dentistry (AFID) which is equipped with modern facilities in the field. The specifically designed programme aims at exposing the students to real life problems including radical art in clinical dental practice. The students are provided with a solid foundation of basic principles of medicine, diagnostics and surgical techniques to meet the challenges of the future in the field of dentistry.

Eligibility Criteria:
Minimum 70% marks, in higher secondary school certificate (HSSC) or F.Sc (Pre-medical) or equivalent examination having minimum twelve years of education.
Minimum 70% marks in aggregate in, an examination of a course from a foreign university or examining body or foreign education system with at least three science subjects i.e. biology, chemistry and either physics or mathematics and such course must have been duly certified by the inter-boards committee (IBCC) or F.Sc or intermediate level of Pakistan.
All Pakistani Nationals including citizens of AJK / GB.

Weightage Formula for Admission

F.Sc (Pre-medical) HSSC/ Equivalent. (50%)
Entrance Test (50%)
For Admission on Open Merit Seats

Minimum 70% marks, in HSSC or F.Sc (Pre-medical) or equivalent examination having minimum twelve years of education.
Minimum 60% marks, in entrance test.
Minimum 60% Aggregate – BDS.
All Pakistani Nationals including citizens of AJK / GB.
For Admission on Foreign/Dual National/Overseas Quota Seats

Foreign national/ dual national/ overseas (being a Pakistani citizen permanently resident in a foreign country) Pakistani student, and who has studied and passed HSSC 12th grade examination or equivalent from outside Pakistan and is a resident of a foreign country at the time of applying for admission and possess a certificate from the institution last attended to this effect having completed last two years of schooling from abroad.
SAT-II Exam with minimum 550 marks each in biology, chemistry and either physics or mathematics or a foreign MCAT with minimum score of 500/528.
Equivalence by IBCC (in case of foreign qualification).
Minimum 70% marks, in HSSC or F.Sc (Pre-medical) or equivalent examination having minimum twelve years of education.
Minimum 60% Aggregate – BDS.
For further details, kindly consult MBBS and BDS Regulations 2018 (amended on 30th May 2019) issued by Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, Islamabad.