Frontier Medical College (FMC) (Urdu, Pashto, Hindko: ) is medical teaching institution and one of several medical schools affiliated to Bahria University. Located in Abbottabad of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan.The college grants the degrees Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) after completion of 5 years of medical training. Besides that, there are nursing and several para-medical courses. FMC has approximately 700 students in the MBBS and BDS programs. History Frontier Medical College was founded in 1995 as the first private medical institute in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and second private medical school in Pakistan. Frontier Medical College and its teaching hospital are self-financing institutions sponsored by a Board of Directors. It was established in 1995 on about 200 Kanals of land at the foothills of a pine forest in the rural outskirts of Abbottabad on the main Karakoram Highway leading from Islamabad to the Chinese border and on to the Central Asian States. It is housed in purpose-built buildings. The 500-bed Shahina Jamil Hospital has been built at the college premises adjacent to the college. In addition to medical students, nurses and paramedical are also trained. Under an agreement of private-cum public partnership with the government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa the 360-bed Government DHQ Teaching Hospital Mansehra is used for teaching and training of medical students. College buildings The main college building is a four-storey purpose-built complex with over 110,000 square feet of covered area. It accommodates all the departments including lecture halls, laboratories, dissection hall, library, museum, computer laboratory, a 500-seat auditorium, seminar rooms, college staff and students room and offices. There is another single-storey building housing the Community Medicine Department. Hospitals The college has two teaching hospitals. One is its own teaching hospital on the college premises called Shahina Jamil Hospital. It is a new 350-bed general hospital. It is staffed by doctors, nurses and paramedical staff. It provides clinical training to the senior medical students, and medical care facilities to all deserving patients free of cost. The students of the dental section are also trained here. The second hospital is the government King Abdullah Teaching Hospital at Mansehra. It is a very busy general hospital with 360 beds. It has been acquired from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government for teaching and training of medical students. The college had constructed in collaboration with the government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa a new 136-bed block called "Frontier Medical College Block" in the hospital. Hostels Hostels are separated by