PMC successfully conducts MDCAT

Minister hails regulatory body for putting in place best arrangements

ISLAMABAD:

The Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) on Sunday successfully conducted the Medical and Dental College Admission Test (MDCAT) across the country and at some stations abroad.

According to PMC, MDCAT-2022 was a paper-based exam, which was conducted through provincial public universities, supervised by the PMC. The commission and all provincial universities successfully conducted the examination.

PMC President Dr Noshad Ahmad Shaikh said that students’ bright future was their top priority and the commission was working tirelessly to facilitate them. He said that 204,253 students appeared in the MDCAT. He said that the PMC also conducted in the MDCAT in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia where a total 462 appeared in the examination.

He said that 83,142 candidates appeared in Punjab,, 43,994 in Sindh, 46,229 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 9,238 in Balochistan, 645 in Gilgit-Baltistan, 2,718 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir; 17,825 in Islamabad Capital Territory, 222 candidates in Saudi Arabia and 240 in the UAE.

He said that the MDCAT was conducted in cities including Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Multan, Faisalabad, Bahawalpur, Gujranwala, Sahiwal, Sialkot, D.G.Khan, Karachi, Jamshoro, Dera Ismail Khan, Malakand, Nawabshah, Khairpur, Swat, Swabi, Peshawar, Mardan, Kohat, Bannu, Abbottabad, Quetta, Gilgit, Muzaffarabad, and Mirpur.

The PMC president said that he personally remained at the Gilgit centre, where the PMC had conducted this exam for the first time.

He said that special assistance had also been provided to a few handicapped candidates who required help to fill answer sheets. He said that it was the right of all students to fulfill their wishes and it was our responsibility to help them to fulfill their dreams.

Meanwhile, Minister for National Health Services Abdul Qadir Patel appreciated the hard work of the PMC’s counsel to maintain the best standards in successfully conducting MDCAT. He lauded vice chancellors and examination heads of all public sector medical universities for displaying transparency in the conduct of exams.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 14^th, 2022