Punjab Medical College 6.52

Faisalabad Medical University, is located in Faisalabad, Pakistan, on a 158acre campus on Sargodha Road. It was established in 1973. Teaching hospitals affiliated with the university are Allied Hospital and District Headquarters Hospital Hospital. The Chief Executive of FMU is Prof. Dr. Sardar Fareed-al-Zafar who is the also holding the post of the Head of the Gynaecology & Obstetrics Allied Hospital Faisalabad. Dr. Fareed is also Head of Allied Hospital & DHQ Hospital Faisalabad along with 4 other hospitals under the university authority. The first group of graduates with M.B.B.S degrees finished in 1978.With a grant of Rs. 460mn from the government, the construction of new buildings, laboratories and the teaching hospital was completed in 1982. FMU is recognized with the General Medical Council and is listed in the International Medical Education Directory .CampusThe university is arranged around a middle corridor which runs from the administration block and the library on one side to the Forensic and Anatomy Departments on the other. On the right of this corridor (looking from the Forensic and Anatomy end) are the Pathology and Biochemistry Departments while on the other side are the Pharmacology and Physiology departments. There are wide spaces between the departments filled with gardens. All the lecture halls & auditoriums are fully air-conditioned. Cafeteria is good but needs improvements.HostelsFaisalabad Medical University has separate facilities for boys and girl students. The boys hostel is located across the Sargodha Road in Iqbal Hall and Ibn-e-Sina Hall. Each hall has a mess and common room, and a common gym.There are four halls for girl students. Fatima and Ayesha halls, located adjacent to the Allied Hospital, mainly house the final year students while Liaquat hall accommodates first and second year students and Jinnah Hall the 3rd and 4th year. The hostels close by 9 pm and nobody is allowed in or out of the girls hostels after this time.