PMC NLE Syllabus & Past Papers
After getting the NLE you will be able to do independent medicine practice in pakistan. Before that this test was only for candidates who do mbbs from foreign universities otherthan Pakistan but now officials decided to get a test from Pakistani graduates also to get medicine practice certificate. This is a very good imitative for Pakistan that only professional doctors will be in field. Pakistan medical commission is responsible to conduct the NLE 2024 Exam and its result issue.
NLE exam will be consist of two parts as a theory that will be consisted of 200 MCQs and the second will be from Basic Sciences disciplines.
70% exam will be from Clinical sciences & 30% will be from basic sciences disciplines.
Clinical Sciences Disciplines in NLE 2024
The following Clinical Sciences disciplines are included in the NLE 2024, from which 70% of MCQs of the exams will be.
| Subjects | No. Of MCQs |
| Medicine and Allied | 52 |
| Surgery and Allied | 48 |
| Obstetrics & Gynaecology | 14 |
| Paediatrics | 14 |
| Ophthalmology (Eye) | 06 |
| Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) | 06 |
| Total | 140 |
The following Basic disciplines are included in the NLE 2024, from which 30% MCQs of the exams will be.
| Basic Sciences Disciplines | No. of MCQs |
| Applied pathology | 16 |
| Applied Anatomy | 12 |
| Applied physiology | 10 |
| Clinical Pharmacology | 08 |
| Applied Biochemistry | 06 |
| Community Medicine | 06 |
| Forensic Medicine and Toxicology | 02 |
| Total | 60 |
After you pass the NLE exam you must have to pass the CSE (Clinical Skill Examination) within the 3 years if you failed to pass the CSE then you have to repeat the NLE test again. NLE will have 20 stations and there will be 3 mandatory stations will be of CSE that you must have to pass. Duration of the paper will be 3 hours & 30 minutes.
| Subjects | No. Of Station |
| Medicine and Allied | 7 |
| Surgery and Allied | 7 |
| Obstetrics & Gynaecology | 2 |
| Paediatrics | 2 |
| Ophthalmology (Eye) | 1 |
| Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) | 1 |
| Total | 20 |
