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Chittagong Medical College

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Type
  
Public medical school

Location
  
Address
  
Chittagong, Bangladesh

Number of students
  
1,050

Academic affiliation
  
University of Chittagong

Established
  
1957 (1957)

Campus
  
Phone
  
+880 31-619400

Founded
  
1957

Chittagong Medical College

Principal
  
Selim Mohammed Jahangir

Director
  
Brigadier General Khondakar Shahidul Ghani

Similar
  
Rajshahi Medical College, Mymensingh Medical College, Sir Salimullah Medical, MAG Osmani Medical, Sher e Bangla Medical

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Chittagong Medical College (CMC) (Bengali: চট্টগ্রাম মেডিকেল কলেজ) is a government medical school in Bangladesh, established in 1957. It is located in the south-eastern port city of Chittagong. It is the largest medical college in Chittagong Division and second largest medical college in Bangladesh. It is affiliated with Chittagong University.

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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 (CMC) is one of the few Medical Colleges in Bangladesh which has postgraduate courses along with graduation courses (MBBS and BDS). The postgraduate medical education program was introduced in 1992, with three diploma courses in Child Health (DCH), Gynecology and Obstetrics (DGO) and Anaesthesiology (DA) 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 (PG) 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.

It has also got research projects in various specialities, like 'Malaria Research Project' which runs in cooperation with University of Oxford.

References

Chittagong Medical College Wikipedia