Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences is a medical college and medical research institute based in Jalandhar, India. Situated in the heart of Punjab’s most vibrant city, with an area spread of more than 55 acres, Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences, Jalandhar was envisaged by the Govt. Of Punjab in 1999 as the first medical college cum teaching hospital in Doaba region. PIMS was conceptualized under Public Private Partnership mode by PIMS Society, PIMS Medical and Education Charitable Society, Department of Medical Education & Research and GoP to be a tertiary care teaching hospital. The medical college is affiliated to Baba Farid University of Health Sciences. Presently the premier institute is doing exceptionally well under the administration of Dr. Kulbir Kaur and has a total of 5 M.B.B.S. batches including interns with a strength of more than 700 budding doctors.Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences has an intake of 150 students in every batch annually which makes it one of the most sought after medical college of Doaba region in Punjab. The hospital has many clinical departments including medicine, general surgery, orthopedics, gynecology/obstetrics, pediatrics, ophthalmology, dermatology and venerology, psychiatry, dentistry, physiotherapy, nephrology, urology, plastic and reconstructive surgery, medical oncology, ENT, chest and TB. The O.P.D. charges are based on P.G.I. norms. The hospital also has pathological, biochemical and microbiological diagnostic facilities with highly specialized laboratories and imagining techniques including X-Ray, Ultrasound and CT scan. The institute has a blood bank, dialysis unit and round the clock emergency services. PIMS also works to serve the society through various charitable endeavors like organizing medical camps and check-ups in areas deprived of medical facilities and has adopted 15 villages in the surrounding area of the city, in which medical camps are organized on regular basis.
The college building consists of classrooms, lecture theatres, labs, museums, a grand central library and a computer centre and has many non clinical departments like anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, community medicine, forensic medicine etc. The college is now offering 4 B.Sc. paramedical and nursing courses also.
