Bolan Medical College

About The University
The University of Balochistan, Quetta is the oldest educational Institution of higher learning of the province entrusted with the responsibilities to educate and train the potentially talented human resource and manpower to meet the emerging needs of the industry and society. It plays a vital role in development of Pakistan in general and Balochistan in particular. The province of Balochistan is passing through a process of rapid socio-economic development which needs well qualified and competent scientists, professionals, academicians and administrators. The University is cognizant of this need and prepared to provide meaningful higher education to the youth of the province.

The University of Balochistan offers graduate, postgraduate, doctoral and advanced programs of studies in various disciplines i-e Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Business & Public Administration, Computer etc. The students of this University share some key characteristics: high talent, leadership quality and commitment for accomplishment of tasks.

The University is equipped with the state of the art scientific equipped and well qualified faculty with in the country and abroad. The courses in different discipline of Science and Arts are designed to emphasize on research. Students are encouraged to think creatively and communicate their ideas effectivelyThe Science & Technology plays a vital role in the development of a country. Any nation cant progress with out the help of trained professionals in Science & Technology. At the University of Balochistan students are trained in the area of Natural, Physical, Chemical & Biological Sciences.

The employers can recruit employees as per demand of their operation; the University of Balochistan produce human resource frequent in Pushto, Balochi, Baruhi and Persian languages for better communication with the local population. Human and Social Sciences departments of this University may help employers for launching their development strategies.

Balochistan occupies a position of great geo-strategic importance, bordered by Afghanistan on the North and on the South by the Arabian Sea. A cluster of languages, remarkable marriage of tribal and semi-tribal society enriched with colorful cultural and traditional heritage.

Balochistan enjoy the big chunk of Pakistan's area, the longest coastline and the least population. With the dawn of the modem era the world became science conscious and the art was called the heart of learning. States-listened to the call of time and started their endeavors to educate their youth to meet the challenges. The youth of Pakistan also found it indispensable to be educated and mainly to know themselves and around. This desire led to the establishment of many universities in Pakistan. Exactly 33 years before University of Balochistan was also establish to fulfill the desire of knowledge of people in the province.

ADMISSION
Admission Criteria and Categorization
Admissions in the teaching departments shall be granted in proportion to the a11ocation of seats therein on the basis of merit. 10% seats shall be on open merit while 1 5% shall be for Quetta district and the remaining 75% seats shall be for the remaining applicants belonging to
the other distr1ctsof the Province of Balochistan.

However, if there is some district from where no one or only one applicant could qualify for admission in a department, then in case of no one 2 applicants and if already there is one applicant admitted in conformity with the aforesaid merit formula from that district--then only one more applicant will be granted admission in that particular department, on merit from amongst the unsuccessful but otherwise eligible candidates belonging to that particular district and who had already submitted their applications in the department.

Besides, only in B Pharmacy program of studies two more applicants from each district will be granted admission on merit from amongst the eligible applicants of that particular district who had earlier submitted their applications in the Department of Pharmacy.

Bolan Medical College as seat of Medical Education in the Province of Balochistan has a checkered history.

After partition the country was deficient in trained manpower, especially in the medical field. To fill the gap in a short period of time the Government of Pakistan decided to start Condensed Medical Courses and for that a series of Medical Schools were established in the country. Thus in 1952 Amin-u-Din Medical School was started in Balochistan. It worked for seven years and was closed as a matter of policy when it was felt that this category of Doctors were no more required and instead it was decided that more Medical Colleges to be opened to train fully qualified Doctors in the country, at the level of MBBS and beyond.

Earlier on the students from Balochistan had to seek admission in the other colleges of the country and were facing great difficulty. After Balochistan got the status of a separate Province in 1970 the people of Balochistan started demanding a Medical College of their own. In March 1971 it was agreed in principle that a Medical College will be opened in Balochistan at Quetta.

In 1972, the Government of Pakistan acceding to the demand of the people of the Province formally decided to set-up a Medical College at Quetta and agreed to run it as a Federally Funded Project.

Pending the construction of a new full-fledged Hospital and College Building, the clinical classes were started in Sandeman Provincial Hospital Quetta and the building of a para- Medical School was acquired for the College. The main building of College and Hospital (BMCH) have been completed, and are fully functional. The laboratories of the basic Departments have been equipped with most modern equipments.

Four Hostels two for Boys and two for Girls and Residence of Teaching and Ministerial staff, in reasonable number have been completed. At the moment there is accommodation for almost all the students.

Twenty seven batches of students numbering 3200 (approximately) have already qualified from here and the 28th batch is due to pass out.

Later on BDS classes were started in 1985 and presently a fully functional Dental section of the College is working and untill now 150 BDS Doctors have qualified from this institution.
For up-dating the knowledge of the Teachers and furtherance of Medical Science a Research Cell, as a branch of Pakistan Medical Research Council, is functioning since 1979 with the principal as its Honorary Director.

To make the medical education more meaningful a Programme of community oriented Medical Education has been introduced in the college from last year. Plans are under way to introduce Computer literacy classes, open a medical education Department, establish a Resource Centre, a skills laboratory and upgrading the library to meet the new challenges of the time. The board of studies of B.M.C. has recently recommended to start Diploma Courses in different specialties in Basic Medical Sciences.