Rangpur Medical College

Rangpur Medical College is one of the major government medical colleges in Bangladesh, located in Rangpur District.

Brief history

To meet the growing needs of modern medicine, the government of East Pakistan established a medical college in Rangpur in 1970 with a 500-bed teaching hospital. The first batch of 50 students were admitted to Rangpur Medical College, affiliated with Rajshahi University, in 1971. Currently, the yearly intake has been increased to one hundred and fifty. Each year ten seats are fixed specially for international students of South Asian countries such as India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives. The medical college is running with several other affiliated teaching hospitals in addition to its own. These are the infectious disease hospital, hospital for tuberculosis and chest disease, and three thana health complexes in rural settings of Rangpur division. New inclusions since 1991 are the nuclear medicine centre, coronary care unit, diarrhoeal disease control and training unit, neuromedicine, neurosurgery,urology, hepatology medicine, padiatric hepatology, respiratory medicine,endocrine and metaboloic diseases, paediatric surgery, radiotherapy, physical medicine department, and burn unit. The General Medical Council of the United Kingdom has recognized the graduates of this college with effect from 1 January 1996. Currently running Rp-37 batch. Recently Rp-32 batch completed internship training.

Admission process

The admission process of undergraduate MBBS course for all government medical colleges in Bangladesh is conducted centrally by the Director of Medical Education under DGHS under Ministry of Health. The test comprises a written MCQ exam, which is held simultaneously in all government medical colleges on the same day throughout the country. Candidates are selected for admission based on national merit and district, whether they are sons or daughters of freedom fighters, and to fill tribal quotas. For foreign students, admission is through the embassy of Bangladesh in their respective countries. The academic calendar for different years is maintained by respective departments. Aside from the MBBS course there are post graduation courses in surgery, medicine, gynaecology and paediatrics. Postgraduate and diploma courses admission tests are conducted by the medical college. The admission test consists of the written MCQ exam. hi its mili from rangpur medical college of 3rd year,i hate maj.moshiour rahman,kurigram.he is a married man but he wants to marry me.i will never marry him.leave me alone....01737560662

Location

Rangpur Medical College is situated in Rangpur, 330 kilometres from Dhaka, and 210 km from Rajshahi District. It is located in the northwest part of the city of Rangpur, situated by the side of the inter-country highway connecting India and Nepal. It is well connected by rail, road and air with the capital city Dhaka.

Campus

The college and hospital campus extend over an area of 7597 sq. meters. The hospital building is situated on the western side of the college building. On the northern side of the hospital building there are student hostels, residences for the principal, director, teachers, doctors, nurses and other auxiliary staff as well as the nursing institute, central mosque, playgrounds, basketball court, lawn tennis court and gymnasium. The Shaheed Minar and main garden are situated in front of the college building. The nuclear medicine centre and the model family planning clinic are situated on its southern side. The hostel for m ale interns is situated at the eastern side of the main college building and a new hostel for female interns has been made in front of the old ladies hostel. New Dental unit building is under construction on the east of Hospital building. ICU building also going to be completed behind the hospital building near department of radiotherapy, on the west side. Medical Branch of Agrani Bank is situated in the campus.

College building

The three-story college building accommodates all of the following offices and departments:

Administrative block	Department of Anatomy
Conference room	Department of Physiology
Air-conditioned Library	Department of Biochemistry
Medical Education Unit	Department of Pathology
Research Cell	Department of Microbiology
Lecture Gallery	Department of Pharmacology
Post Office	Department of Forensic Medicine
Guest house	Department of Community Medicine
Medical Skill Centre	Department of Surgery
College Canteen	Department of Medicine
Teacher Lounge	Department of Gynaecology & Obstetrics
Auditorium

Hospital building

Rangpur Medical College is a major medical college of Bangladesh. A five storied building of 6 partitions accommodates 875 beds with the following disciplines:

Hospital Administrative Office	Department of Radiology & Imaging
Hospital store	Department of Radiotherapy
Emergency & Casualty department	Department of Psychiatry
Department of Internal Medicine	Department of Otolaryngology
Department of Cardiology	Department of Anaesthesiology
Department of Neuromedicine	Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Department of Dermatology & Venereology	Department of Dentistry
Department of General Surgery	Department of Clinical Pathology
Department of Neurosurgery	Department of Physical Medicine
Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology	Department of Transfusion Medicine
Department of Ophthalmology	Operating theatre, Seminar room
Department of Paediatrics	Department of Gastroenterology
Department of Paediatric Surgery	Breast feeding corner
Diarrhoeal Diseases cell & Training Unit	Outpatient Department
Department of Urology	ARI Unit
Hepatology Medicine	Respiratory Medicine
Paediartic Hepatology	Endocrine & Metabolic diseases
Nephrology	Intensive Care Unit

Residential accommodation

There are two buildings (eight units) located within the campus for professors and four more buildings (32 units) for lecturers and clinical tutors. The Principal,Vice Principla and Director of Hospital have specific buildings for their residential accommodation. Residential accommodation for the nurses, paramedics and auxiliary staff of the college and hospital are available within the campus in different multistoried buildings. There is also on-campus residential accommodation of students, including those from overseas. There are three hostels with 536 spaces for male students, and two hostels with 327 spaces for female students. There are two hostels with 120 spaces for intern doctors.

Teaching facilities

Rangpur Medical College and its allied hospitals render the teaching facilities in lecture galleries, dissection halls, tutorial rooms, a museum, autopsy room, modern morgue, laboratories, seminar rooms and library. All the teaching facilities are equipped with modern multimedia projectors, overhead projector, audio video cassette player, and cordless microphones. It also provides equipment for practical classes and laboratory work. The medium of teaching throughout the course is English. The facilities which are contributing to clinical teaching along with treatment of the patients are cytological, histopathological examinations, automatic and manual culture and sensitivity, automatic bichemical analyser, automatic and manual haematological examinations, automatic hormone analyser, clinical biochemistry, radiological investigation, gamma camera for isotope studies,4-D ultrasonography, radiotherapy, electrocardiography, echocardiography, CT scan ,MRI, endoscopy and autopsy.

Evaluation system

The university conducts the professional examinations on a fixed schedule laid down in the curriculum. A brief outline of the evaluation system is as follows.

FOR GRADUATION MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery) COURSE:

A. Periodic assessment and eligibility for professional examinations as:-

1. 75% attendance in every subject in theoretical practical and tutorial classes separately.
2. Satisfactory completion of assessment card in every subject.
3. Satisfactory results (60% marks) in annual examination.
4. Certificate of good conduct by head of the department of each subject.

B. External examiners For oral and practical examination 60% of the examiners of all professional examinations are external examiners selected by the faculty of medicine of university. They are selected from different medical colleges of the same university as well as different universities.

C. The Examination System (Final evaluation at professional examinations)

1. There are three professional examinations scheduled at the end of 2nd, 4th and final year for evaluation to confer the degree of MBBS by the university.
2. In each professional examination students are evaluated by written, oral and practical clinical examination.
3. In written, practical, clinical and oral examination, the pass mark is 60% of the total mark allotted. The student must pass separately in each of the written, practical, clinical and oral examinations.

FOR POSTGRADUATION (MS & MD) and DIPLOMA COURSES:

A. 80% attendance is necessary in theoretical, practical and tutorial class.

B. For oral, practical and clinical examinations external examiners are selected from senior members of the faculty of same and different universities.

C. Examination systems are as above (written, practical, oral and clinical) and the pass mark is 60% of the total mark allotted.

Students' extracurricular activities

Sandhani, Medicine Club,Friends Foundation and RBDC (Retina blood Donation Center) are voluntary organizations of students of this medical college. These organizations work to motivate people to donate blood, and also encourage posthumous eye donation for cornea transplantation. They also facilitate treatment of poor patients through distribution of free drugs and collection of blood. They also arrange clothing donations in the winter season for poor rural areas. Students of this medical college take part in debate competitions on the national network, Bangladesh Television (BTV), where they proved their efficiency on many occasions. Similar competitions are also arranged within the institution. They also arrange cultural programmes on many occasions.

See also

• Medical Colleges of Bangladesh