Rangpur Medical College

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.

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.

Teaching facilities

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.