Clinical teaching is provided at Ghurki Trust Teaching Hospital, Lahore to third, fourth and fainl year medical students. They are taught basic principles in surgery i.e. infections and inflammation, asepsis, tumours, immunity and transplantation, fluid and electrolyte balance, specific infections like tuberculosis, anastomotic techniques and principles. 

Specialized surgery topics included are hernia, intestinal obstruction, peptic ulcer, gall stones, gastro-intestinal malignancy, skin tumours, thyroid diseases, breast pathologies, rectal problems, urinary tract infections and tumours, renal calculi diseases, etc. they are also taught topics in Neuro-surgery, Paediatrics surgery, plastic surgery, Orthopaedic surgery, vascular surgery  and cardio-thoracic surgery. 

These topics are discussed in tutorials, discouraging a didactic form of teaching. All the students in a group are expected to participate in the ensuing discussion.

The students are exposed in a wide variety of surgical problems, where they are expected to clerk patients and elicit clinical signs, under the supervision of a tutor. They are encouraged to order relevant investigations, reach a plausible diagnosis and institute management, on scientific basis. Thus making them independent thinkers and ensuring their safe graduation as medical practitioners.