LAHORE: The University of Health Sciences (UHS) on Monday displayed the provisional merit lists for public medical and dental colleges of Punjab.

Merit lists have been issued in accordance with the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council Admission Regulations, 2019.

The merit has been calculated by giving equal weightage to Higher Secondary School Certificate and Medical and Dental Colleges Admission Test marks.

This year, UHS had received 14,217 applications for admission against 3,017 open merit MBBS seats in 17 public sector medical colleges across the province. Against these seats, minimum provisional merit remained at 91.5455pc. For 175 open merit BDS seats available in three dental colleges, the current provisional merit is 93.5pc.

The candidates can lodge any complaint against the provisional merit lists by Oct 27.

In the next phase, the candidates will be able to give their order of preference for medical and dental colleges through the online portal that will be reopened for that purpose from Oct 28 to 31.

The first college-wise selection list will be displayed on Nov 8 and classes will commence on Nov 18.

For private colleges, provisional merit lists will be displayed on Nov 4.

Published in Dawn, October 23rd, 2019