at least 60% are eligible for admission. Admission is not restricted to any gender, nationality or religious affiliation. An aptitude test to gauge knowledge in English, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics is administered to applicants who meet the academic requirement. Out of the group of applicants, only the top 120 are invited to an interview to further assess the candidate. Candidates are then selected on merit, based on their entry test marks, F.Sc marks, aptitude entry and interview marks. Collaboration Frontier Medical College has formed a partnership with Xinjiang Medical University and the University of Calgary. Through the partnership, professors and students are exchanged and allowed to work together on research as well as learn with one another. The Xinjiang Medical University will provide a Chinese Traditional Medical Centre at Frontier Medical College, the first of its kind in Pakistan. Sports There are sports facilities at the college campus for volleyball, basketball, badminton and tennis. Hostels are provided with table tennis facilities and other indoor games. Facilities for indoor badminton and table tennis are provided in the college auditorium which is used as a gymnasium in winter months and during snow and rains. For games like football, hockey and cricket facilities available in Abbottabad are used. Skiing facilities are available during the winter months at Kalabagh, 45 minutes away in the mountains. Student societies Debating Society Dramatic and Cultural Society Literary Society Patient Welfare Society Blood Donation Society Environment Protection Society Frontier Medical College Welfare Society Sport Club Students Health Care Society Pharmacology Society Fine Arts Society FMC old students Society Medical facilities Health care in the college teaching hospitals is free to all students. If a student falls ill with a minor ailment, they are provided with treatment in the outpatient's department. If it is a serious illness or requires hospital admission, treatment is arranged and the cost of the treatment, which is nominal, is paid by the student or by the health insurance company if they are insured. If any student or their parents desire health insurance cover, it is available through the New Jubilee Insurance Company at a nominal premium. FMC graduates The first 20 batches of students admitted have passed their Final Professional MBBS examination of Bahria University Islamabad securing MBBS degrees. They have been registered with the PMDC and are working in government teaching hospitals and other hospitals in the country and abroad. Many of them