Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Department Punjab Announces Specialty-Based JCAT for Postgraduate Medical Programs Starting January 2025-Notification
Notification / OM No.
NO.SO(ME-II)2-2/2023
Dated:
8-August-2024
Notification Issued By:
SPECIALIZED HEALTHCARE & MEDICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT(MEDICAL EDUCATION WING) GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB
TO BE SUBSTITUTED WITH THE NOTIFICATION BEARING SAME NUMBER DATED 09.05.2024
GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB
SPECIALIZED HEALTHCARE & MEDICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
(MEDICAL EDUCATION WING)
Dated Lahore the, 8th August 2024
NOTIFICATION:
NO.SO(ME-II)2-2/2023: Consequent upon the decisions made in the 2nd and 3rd meetings of Inter-University Board (IUB) comprising all Vice Chancellors of Public Sector Medical Universities in Punjab, and in order to improve the quality of intake of post graduate trainees and to obtain the International recognition of the University programs (MD/MS/MDS), the Competent Authority has been pleased to notify that Joint Centralized Admission Test (JCAT) for admission/ induction to postgraduate MS/MD/MDS programs shall be held in the following specialties instead of common paper for MS/MD/MDS.
| Sr. No. | JCAT-Specialties |
| 1 | JCAT-Medicine and Allied |
| 2 | JCAT-Surgery and Allied |
| 3 | JCAT-Obstetrics & Gynecology |
| 4 | JCAT-Anesthesiology |
| 5 | JCAT-Ophthalmology |
| 6 | JCAT-Diagnostic Radiology |
| 7 | JCAT-Psychiarty |
| 8 | JCAT-Oto-Rhino-Laryngology (ENT) |
| 9 | JCAT-Dentistry |
2. The specialty based JCAT shall comprise two papers. The Competent Authority has been further pleased to notify that Pass percentage shall be 75%. The result declaration shall be In form of “Pass” and “Fall”.
3. Specialty specific JCAT shall be said with effect from Jan 2025 induction. However, in order to facilitate and accommodate the candidates having valid common JCAT, they shall have to pass second paper(specialty based) of JCAT in order to be consider. for Jan 2025 induction and onwards. The pass percentage for second paper for candidates having valid common JCAT shall also be 75 percent. The validity of JCAT for such candidates shall be counted from the date of their passing Common JCAT.
4. The fees for Specialty based JCAT shall be Rs.10,000 and in case of candidates having valid common JCAT result taking paper two only it would be Rs.6000.
5. Vice Chancellor, King Edward Medical University (KEMU), Lahore shall conduct the upcoming JCAT which is likely to be held in October 2024 on above said parameters.
6. Further in case of induction in basic sciences in university programs specialty specific (Physiology, Pathology, Community Medicine etc) JCAT shall be held as and when initiated.
Section Officer (ME-II)
