Rangpur Medical College

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

Location  Rangpur Medical College is situated in Rangpur, 330 kilometers 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. 

Rangpur Medical College was established in 1970 during the period of East Pakistan. Governor General of the then East Pakistan, Munaim Khan laid the foundation of this Medical College

in1969. The Medical College is situated about two km north to Rangpur town in the area of Dhap, Jail road opposite to district jail and very near to Rangpur cantonment area.The  College started with 50 students in its first batch. Now each year, 175 students get admitted in this medical college for MBBS course. Other than MBBS course there are several postgraduate courses including DCH, ,DFM, MS in Gynae & Obs, MS in General Surgery, MD in Internal Medicine and MD in Paediatrics. It is a fully residential  College with facilities of sufficient doctors quarter, large central mosjid, playground and gymnasium for students. There are three hostels for boys and two hostels for the girl students. Beside these three are separate doctors hostels for ladies and gents for the trainee doctors. 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 district. New inclusions since 1991 are the nuclear medicine center, coronary care unit, diarrhoeal disease control and training unit, neuromedicine, neurosurgery,urology, hepatology medicine, paediatric hepatology, respiratory medicine,endocrine and metabolic 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-40 batch.

ADMISSION PROCEDURE

Admission for under graduate students are solely controlled by the Director, Medical Education, DGHS, Dhaka. For admission of  foreign student respective country will conduct with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Currently there is no provision  for  admission of foreign students in postgraduate courses in this medical college and also in other government medical colleges in Bangladesh. Only BSMMU, Dhaka is allowing  a limited number of foreign students in their postgraduate courses.

DEAPRTMENTS AND TEACHERS

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 with laptops, overhead projector and cordless microphones. Most of the departments are equipped with laptops, desktops computers and multimedia projector.  It also provides equipment for practical classes and laboratory work. There is a facilities of using internet in the IT corner attached to college library. 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 biochemical analyzer, automatic and manual haematological examinations, automatic hormone and biochemical analyzer, clinical biochemistry, radiological investigation, gamma camera for isotope studies,4-D ultrasonography, radiotherapy, electrocardiography, echocardiography, CT scan, MRI, endoscopy and autopsy. Recently ICU and coronary angiogram are going to be introduced in the hospital.

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.Seventy five percent 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)

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.

1.In each professional examination students are evaluated by written, oral and practical clinical examination.

2.In written, practical, clinical and oral examination, the pass mark is 60% of the total mark allotted.

3.The student must pass separately in each of the written, practical, clinical and oral examinations.

FOR POST GRADUATION (MS & MD: General surgery, Gynae & Obstetrics, Internal Medicine, Paediatrics) and DIPLOMA COURSES: DCH, DA, DO, DFM)

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.