Official data released by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) shows that none of the Pakistani medical graduates who studied in Barbados, Cuba, Cyprus, the Dominican Republic, Georgia, the Philippines, Saint Lucia, or Sudan passed the National Registration Examination (NRE) Step-1 conducted in December 2025.
The results highlight a broader issue with overseas medical education, as only about one in five foreign-trained doctors qualified nationwide. Out of 7,076 candidates who appeared in the exam, just 1,473 cleared it, while 5,603 failed, placing the overall pass rate at 20.8 percent.
Regulatory officials described the complete failure of candidates from eight countries as particularly concerning, pointing to systemic academic shortcomings rather than isolated individual failures.
Kyrgyzstan produced the highest number of candidates but recorded only 951 passes out of 4,256 examinees, a success rate of roughly 22 percent. China reported 333 passes out of 2,154 candidates, resulting in a pass rate of about 15.5 percent.
Other Central Asian destinations also showed weak outcomes. Kazakhstan saw 54 passes out of 174 candidates, Uzbekistan recorded 35 passes out of 116, and Tajikistan had 30 passes out of 91 candidates. Russia reported just two successful candidates out of 16.
Among regional countries, Afghanistan recorded 18 passes out of 160 candidates. Ukraine and Malaysia each produced only two and one successful candidates, respectively.
A few countries with very small candidate numbers showed higher pass rates, but officials cautioned that these results do not carry statistical weight due to limited participation.
In contrast, Bangladesh recorded 10 passes out of 11 candidates, while Iran reported 20 passes out of 39. Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates each reported 100 percent pass rates, with one to three candidates appearing from each country.
That’s the incomplete story.
People from Kyrgyzstan and china once graduated follow some sort of academy to get preparation. While others don’t have the knowledge to follow the academies for preparation.
Foreign education is much better than our Pakistani fucking education system especially the medical field considered to be null😴😴😴as compare to other countries
What a joke
Get some research you illiterate
Sorry to say u r either foreign medical graduate just using vulgar language perhaps u a street hawker,,,maximum no of pakistani medical graduate r doctor working in uk,usa as compared to your socalled good education of china,kargystan,or russian states who waste more than 5year in passing NRE Pak pmdc exam
You need to wake up from your sleep you raging bafoon , China’s biomedical research is on par with US and to think somehow chinese MBBS is inferior to Pakistans is literally orders of magnitude stupid.
Why Pakistani students excluded pakistani would b 100% fail most if pakistani are tommy no knowledge for corruption this is regime tactics
Pls share stats of Pakistani graduates qualifying registration for foreign countries as well🤣🤣🤣
Medical graduates from medical colleges in Pakistan should also sit this PMDC NLE exam, then you can compare the results and also determine status of medical education in Pakistan.
Wow firstly they give mdcat and do hard work to come in top 3500 students out of 1 lakh+ students then they give every year uhs proff and after five year you are saying they have to give NLE shame on you man
You are comparing a brilliant student who worked day and night to get admission in govt college to an average student who don’t know what hard work is who just get admission in foreign country on the base of money
i was in hospital and a Paki graduated doc prescribed pregnancy injection to a constipation patient.
end of debate
The way you wrote paki shows your manner and what you have learnt – end of deabte
It was mid 60s, newly built Jamshoro teaching hospital, associate professor son wants to by pass a corridor. Chaprasi was blocking entrace. *class is going on, disturbance ho ge, cant go* we did not. I had tonnsils surgery in September 1965. EXCELLENT Standard AS NYU. Hay days of Dictator Ayub Khuta hai hai. Then came Democrazy, Bhutto.Hospital turn garbage heap. Zia, the muslim ummah, dont have supplies in ER, stich, pads, antiseptic, purchase your own, while bleed to death. Allah H00
In Pakistani medical colleges it’s very difficult to get admission and the cost is very high. So Pakistani students go abroad. In Pakistan there are many people who are doctors, pilots etc with fake documents. If you have money then you have everything. These doctors that failed the exam should have given some money to pass and I am quite sure they would have passed.
The doctors should have more training
the assosiation should also focus on different private medical colleges witnin pakistan who conduct in house examinations or affiliated with universities having zero medical back ground. rhere should be equall standardizations for all medical colleges to ensure fairplay.
PM&DC and prior to it Ex PMC have no sympathy with students who have studied in foreign medical and dental institutions. There are confirm reports and PFMGs complain about irregularities and huge corruption against the big bosses handling with NRE (previously known as NLE or NEB). Another aspect of atrocities that they have increased passing criteria from 50 to 60% and this way so called medical regularity authority allegedly are receiving bribes from the owners of local privates medical institutions so that students could be compelled to study in Pakistani sub standard institutions.
Yeah yeah all the countries are useless. Pakistan education is even better than the USA. THESE PPL THINK EVERYONE IS MAD!!
This exam is a farce!! Other countries dont even want ur graduates!! Just a way to blackmail and ruin children futures and print money!
یہ باہر سے پڑھے ڈاکٹروں کے ساتھ زیادتی ہے۔ یہ ٹیسٹ لوکل سے بھی لے لینا چاہیے ۔تاکہ پتا تو چل سکیں ۔ باہر والے بہت قابل ہوتے ہیں ۔
Language problem to learn Medicine in Central Asian Persian Russian speaking Countries.
Absolutely biased and non sensical results just like CSS, where harvard graduates fail but apparently some gomal or gujrawala university graduates pass with flying colours. To think Chinese MBBS is inferior to Pakistans is orders of magnitude retarded…
There is a possibility that most of these students encountered a language barrier, henceforth, not gaining the knowledge and expertise required for the exam. For those who might be unaware, some of the top physicians in the world, Received their education in Pakistan. What we lack in theory is more than covered by the sheer number of patients dealt with during training.
Medicine is not easy, and trying to learn in an environment with a different language can take its toll as we see with these results.