Rangpur Medical College

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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 seventy five.37th batch is doing interne duty. And most recent batch of 2013 is 42nd.

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 the 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.

Location

The campus of Rangpur Medical College is located in the northwest area of Rangpur, Bangladesh. It is 210 kilometres from the Rajshahi District and 330 kilometres from Dhaka and is located next to the inter-country highway that connects India to Nepal.

Campus

Rangpur Medical College is a big medical college of Bangladesh with a five story building of 6 partitions. Wards 1, 2, and 3 are medicine (3 is female), wards 4, 8 and 10 are surgery wards, and ward 5 is ENT. Wards 11, 13 & 14 are gynae and obstetrics. There are also cardiology, ENT, orthopedics, eye, skin-vd, gastro, psychiatry, paediatric surgery, paediatric medicine, urology, and neurology wards.

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

Students' extracurricular activities

R.B.D.C, Sandhani, Medicine Club, Friends Foundation are voluntary organizations of students of this medical college.