Dhaka Medical College and Hospital

Established	1946
Type	Public
Staff	3,406
Students	1,050
Location	Dhaka, Bangladesh
Campus setting	Urban, 25 acres (0.101 km²)
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Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), established in 1946 during the British colonial rule, is the top medical school in Bangladesh. Situated at the heart of the city near the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka Medical College is an educational institution with a rich heritage. The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Categories: Capitals in Asia | Asia geography stubs | Cities in Bangladesh ... Urban area is a term used to define an area where there is an increased density of man-made structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia Website. ... In 1498, the Portuguese set foot in Goa. ... Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Bangla: বাংলাদেশ প্রকৌশল বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) or BUET is the foremost Engineering University in Bangladesh. ...

History

Established in 1946, it took about 10 years for the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital to start operations because of bureucratic entanglements. The Dhaka Medical College and its affiliate, Dhaka Medical College Hospital, were accommodated in a building constructed in 1904 as the Secretariat Building for the province of East Bengal and Assam. The building was transferred to the University of Dhaka in 1921. One part of it was converted into the university's medical centre, one part into a student dormitory, while the residual part was allotted for use as the academic wing of the Faculty of Arts. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Assam (Assamese: অসম Ôxôm) is a northeastern state of India with its capital at Dispur. ... The University of Dhaka is the oldest university in Bangladesh. ...

The whole building was used as "American Base Hospital" during World War II. When the Americans left, a one hundred bed hospital was established in it. This created the base of the DMCH, which at the beginning had only four departments - Medical, Surgery, Gynaecology and ENT. The institute did not have any hostel for students. Male students were allowed to reside in Dhaka University's student halls, but girls had to attend classes from their homes. After the partition of Bengal in 1947, a large number of students came from Calcutta Medical College and sought admission in Dhaka Medical College. Similarly, many left Dhaka Medical College for Calcutta. The college and hospital premises were expanded in new temporary sheds, some of which were built for outdoor services of the hospital and some others for students' hostels. New buildings for hostel, college and hospital were constructed in phases: a hostel for girls in 1952, a hostel for male students in 1954-55, a new complex of academic buildings in 1955, and a hostel for internee doctors in 1974-75. Combatants Allies: • Poland, • UK & Commonwealth, • France, • Soviet Union, • USA, • China, ...and others Axis: • Germany, • Italy, • Japan, ...and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total: 50 million Full list Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total: 12 million Full list World War II, also, The... East Bengal was the name used during two periods in the 20th century for a territory that roughly included the modern state of Bangladesh. ... Calcutta Medical College aka Medical College Calcutta was established in 1835 as Medical College, Bengal. ...

General Information

Dhaka Medical College now has 12 departments - anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology, community medicine, forensic medicine, pathology, microbiology, medicine, surgery, nuclear medicine, and obstetrics and gynaecology. There are 8 laboratories for each of the department of physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology, pharmacy, histology, histo-pathology, clinical pathology, and microbiology. The college has about 176 teachers and about 1,050 students. The annual intake of fresh students in its undergraduate programme is 150. The postgraduate courses offered by the college include master of surgery (MS) in branches like urology, neurosurgery and orthopaedic surgery, doctor of medicine (MD) in paediatrics, master of philosophy (MPhil) in radiology, and diplomas in a number of disciplines such as anaesthesiology, ophthalmology, laryngology, gynaecology and obstetrics, child health and cardiology. Dhaka Medical College and DMCH were under one administration until 1975, when they were made two different entities with a Principal as the head of the college and a Director as the chief administrator of the hospital. The two institutions, however, continue to complement each other. The various buildings of DMCH and its other facilities excluding the medical college now stand on about 25 acres of land. It has 28 departments and 36 wards, 234 full-time doctors, 380 internee doctors, 560 nurses, 24 paramedics, and 1,104 other staff. The number of beds in wards, units and cabins total about 1,400, of which 130 are paying beds and 128 are in cabins. Its occupancy rate is about 130%. It provides both indoor and outdoor services and serves about 3,000 outdoor patients daily.

Facts

For the 150 freshmen places in 2006, nearly 100,000 thousand applicants sat for the entrance examination.

DMCH draws in students not only from the whole of Bangladesh, but from throughout South Asia with students hailing from as far away as Kashmir to Nepal and Bhutan. Shown in green is the Kashmiri region under Pakistani control. ...

Students of DMCH are also well-known for their cultural activities.