Around 41 foreign students – 11 male and 30 female – have been admitted in seven public medical colleges in the Punjab this year.
The candidates were nominated by the Economic Affairs Division.
The students have been accepted at King Edward Medical College University, Allama Iqbal Medical College, Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Nishtar Medical College Multan, Punjab Medical College Faisalabad, Rawalpindi Medical College Rawalpindi and Quaid-i-Azam Medical College Bahawalpur.
Out of the 41 candidates five are American, five Yemeni, four Iraqi, four British, four Iranian, four Nepalese, three Canadian, three Turkish, three Sudanese, two Somali, and one each from Thailand, Mauritius, Ireland and Bangladesh.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 5th, 2011.
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@Amjad: I personally know 2 people who are doing very well in DMC on international seats and one of them was not even eligible to sit for an entrance exam (the requirement is to have 60 or above percentage).That person gave SAT 1 and 2 and is now going strong.So yes,'buying' an International seat does not necessarily means that the student will never be able to excel academically.
I am sure these are mostly expatriate Pakistanis who had poor marks and no merit so they go to other countries to get an education by buying a seat. It's like all the substandard desi kids in North America who study medicine in the Carribean because they don't have the marks / merit to get into an American or Canadian medical school.