Chittagong Medical College


Chittagong Medical College is situated in the port city of Chittagong, Bangladesh and is the oldest medical college in the south-eastern part of the country. It is affiliated with a tertiary level hospital where clinical students are trained in medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology and other sub-specialties. Currently, students from Bhutan, India, Iran, Malaysia, Nepal, Palestine, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka are studying in various phases of MBBS course alongside the native students.

History

Chattogram Medical College Hospital was established at the present site in 1960 with only 120 beds and the outpatient services. At that time the young hospital housed only the Departments of Surgery and Gynecology and Obstetrics. Chittagong Hospital Housed the department of Medicine and allied specialties still 1969 and thereafter it remained affiliated with Chittagong Medical College Hospital as one of its teaching hospitals.
Construction of the present purpose-built six-storied CMCH was completed in 1969, which now accommodates all the clinical Departments including all their subspecialties. The hospital, which had a capacity of 500 beds initially, gradually increased its strength to 750 and finally to 1313. It runs big outpatient departments in the specialties like medicine, paediatrics, psychiatry, skin and venereal diseases, clinical pathology, general surgery, otorhinolaryngology, paediatric surgery, ophthalmology, obstetrics, gynaecology, radiotherapy, radiology and dentistry with an average turnover in excess of 2000 a day. The independent turnover in 1999 was about 50,000. Over 18,000 surgical operations were performed that year.
As years passed, new treatment facilities kept being added and at present a nuclear medicine Centre for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, a coronary care unit, an endoscopy unit, a kidney dialyzing unit, a Model Family Planning Centre, a Centre for Extended Program for Immunisation are among the many facilities available to the in- and outpatients.

Foundation

Maiden Principal Professor Altaf Uddin Ahmed, Minister of Health and Social Welfare Dhirendranath Datta, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Prime Minister Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, District Magistrate MA Rashid, Police Super, Central Health Minister Zahirudddin was present during the inauguration ceremony of Chittagong Medical College, 20 September 1957

Facilities

Teaching spaces

1. Lecture Galleries: There are a number of Lecture galleries and Halls in College and Hospital – a. Salam Lecture Gallery b. Barkat Lecture Gallery c. Sutapa Lecture Hall d. Jabbar Lecture Gallery 2. Tutorial Rooms: 30 3. Autopsy Morgue: 1 4. Wards and their associated teaching corners and seminar rooms: 34

Library

“Shimu Granthagar” the main college library is located in the western block of the college building. Extended over two stories, it consists of a reference for the use of the faculty and doctors of the College and Hospital. International medical journals are regularly being received through donations from the British Council, the Asia Foundation and WHO. Journals are also being received from the National Health Library and Documentation Center, Dhaka.
There are two reading rooms with an accommodation of about 120 students. They can borrow text and other books to read on the reading room of the library as well on a take home basis for a limited period. All the students of CMC are members of the British Council Library and each of them can Borrow maximum four books at a time and keep them for as long as six months. This provides an excellent opportunity for our students to access to modern medical text books of their own liking.
The college library has a collection of over 26000 volumes of text books – about 2800 titles. Besides, there is a collection of about 1000 slides used as teaching aid by the teachers. Our Library is also providing modern internet access facilities.

Medical Skill Centre

The centre is located at the 5th floor of the Hospital beside the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. It offers excellent facilities to the students to practice skills on different clinical activities. Among the facilities available are mannequins, dummies, a variety of equipments and instruments, electronic audio-visual training aids like closed circuit television connected to the operation-theater rooms, video cassette recording and replaying facilities, public address system movies, still cameras, slide and movie projectors and so on. Tastefully decorated and richly equipped, this centre is a pride addition to the repertoire of the teachers to the teachers to impart effective practical teaching to their students.

Timeline

Medical College

1901 – Chittagong General Hospital at Anderkilla on the top of a hill.
1927 – Chittagong Medical School in CGH premises and had Four years long L.M.F Licentiate Course there.
1957 – Chittagong Medical College in its present location and MBBS was the undergraduate degree given here.
1969 – Chittagong Medical College Hospital was transferred to 7 storied building.
1990 – Dental Unit establishment and starting of BDS course.
1992 -Diploma in 3 subjects Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics and anaesthesiology.
2002- Post Graduation in 29 subjects became available, Notably Doctor of Medicine, Master of Surgery, Master of Philosophy, Professional degrees of public health, Diploma.
2010- Post Graduation Courses are conducted under supervision of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.
2015- Declaration of Chittagong Medical University.

Hospital

Up to 1960 – Chittagong General Hospital was used as affiliated hospital for Chittagong Medical College.
1960- Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynaecology Department was established in present-day location of Chittagong Medical College Hospital.
1969- Present building was established.
2007- Newer facilities were added like Magnetic resonance imaging, CT scan, Fine-needle aspiration, PAP, ICV, Cath lab, Casualty, Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, Angiography, Endoscopy, Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography, Laparoscopic surgery, Endoscopic Neurosurgery, and many more.
2016 – At present it comprises 44 units of different specialities and sub-specialities and sophisticated Imaging and Diagnostic facilities and facilitates complex surgical procedures including Open heart Surgery, Bypass surgery, Laparoscopic procedures etc. on a daily basis.

Organization and administration

Principals

SerialNamePeriod
1.Professor Altaf Uddin Ahmed11 June 1957 – 30 September 1966
2.A. Ahad 30 October 1966 – 11 June 1967
3.Syed AKM Hafizur Rahman11 June 1967 – 20 May 1969
4.S.M. Hasan 20 May 1969 – 21 May 1969
5.Professor Md. Shamsuzzoha21 May 1969 – 6 August 1971
6.Professor S.M. Hassan6 August 1971 – 10 December 1971
7.Professor R. K. Khondokar11.12.1971– 24 February 1972
8.Professor M.R.B. Chowdhury24.02.1972– 29 February 1972
9Professor Md. Hamidur Rahman27 September 1975 – 30 September 1976
10Professor D.P. Barua30 September 1976 -02.12.1977
11Professor Mazharul Imam2 December 1977 -20.09.1978
12Professor Mirza Mazharul Imam20 September 1978 – 12 February 1979
13Professor Md. Abul Hossain12 February 1979 -03.07.1982
14Professor Siddiqullah3 July 1982 -27.06.1984
15Professor Kamrul Huda27 June 1984 -10.04.1985
16Professor K.M. Farid Uddin10 April 1985 -28.05.1990
17Professor Md. Nurunnobi26 May 1990 -09.06.1993
18Professor Syeda Nurjahan Bhuyian9 June 1993 -19.12.1996, 27 January 1997 -26.01.1999
19Professor Md. Kamaluddin Ahmed19 December 1996 – 27 January 1997, 27 January 1999 -26.09.1999
20Professor Shuvagoto Chowdhury26 September 1999 – 20 January 2002
21Professor Abdul Mannan Sikder20 January 2002 -2 January 2003
22Professor Chowdhury B. Mahmud2 January 2003 -29 December 2005
23Professor Imran Bin Younus29 December 2005 -8 March 2007
24Professor A A Wahab Chowdhury8 March 2007 -4 November 2008
25Professor Mohammad Gofranul Hoque4 November 2008 -5 January 2010
26Professor Selim Mohammad Jahangir17 February 2010 – 11 November 2019
27Professor Dr Mohaamad Shameem Hasan11 November 2019 – Present

Eligibility

Each year eligibility is determined by DGHS under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of Bangladesh. Nevertheless, the basic requirement for admission in a Medical college in Bangladesh is that a candidate must have appeared Secondary School Certificate and Higher School Certificate examination or their equivalent examinations although the minimum grades required vary from year to year. It is also required that a candidate must have Biology, Chemistry and Physics among the subjects taken in HSC.

Post graduate courses

There are 31 post graduate courses in different disciplines running in CMC. It has MD courses in internal medicine, pediatrics, cardiology, neuromedicine, nephrology and dermatology. It also runs MS courses in general surgery, urology, pediatric surgery, orthopedics, neurosurgery, ENT, ophthalmology and obstetrics and gynaecology. The selection of students in various post graduate courses is done by the local admission committee under the directives of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and DGHS. The Admission test for MD,MS courses is held on the last Friday of September & M.Phil, MPH and all Diploma courses is held on the last Friday of March. Each year classes of MD, MS Courses start in January and M.Phil, MPH, Diploma Courses begin in July. Chittagong Medical College is one of the few Medical Colleges in Bangladesh which has postgraduate courses along with graduation courses. The postgraduate medical education program was introduced in 1992, with three diploma courses in Child Health, Gynecology and Obstetrics and Anaesthesiology In 2002, a total of 28 post graduate courses were added in various clinical, para-clinical and basic subjects. In 2005, Diploma in Otorhinolaryngology and Head neck surgery and MD in Forensic Medicine were included.
Among the 31 Post graduate courses MD in 9 disciplines, M.Phil in 6 disciplines, MPH in 1 discipline and diplomas in 7 disciplines. All the Post Graduate courses are organized as per the recommended ordinance & curriculum of the University of Chittagong. These courses are recognized by BMDC. Under-graduate courses are certified by University of Chittagong. Post-graduate courses are certified by BSMMU. There are some diploma courses are also running in various disciplines. There is a large hospital adjacent to the College named Chittagong Medical College Hospital. The college is situated in between Chawkbazar and Probortok circle.
CMC is one of the best Medical Colleges in Bangladesh to develop clinical knowledge and surgical skills. It has also got research projects in various specialities, like 'Malaria Research Project' which runs in cooperation with University of Oxford.

Martyrs of CMC in Liberation War of 1971