Monno Medical College

Harunar Rashid Khan Monno established Monno Medical College in 2011.

Front view of Monno Medical College with students of Monno-4 batch

Monno Medical College

The college is located in Monno City, Gilondo, Ghior Upazila, 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) west of Manikganj, on the south side of the Dhaka–Aricha Highway.[1] The main buildings on campus are ten-storied academic building; separate hostels for male students, female students, male interns and female interns, dormitory for doctors and professors; and Monno Medical College Hospital, the college's five-story, 500-bed teaching hospital.

The college is affiliated with Dhaka University as a constituent college.[1][2] The chairman of the college is Afroza Khan Rita. The principal is Md. Akhtaruzzaman.

The college offers a five-year course of study, approved by the Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council (BMDC), leading to a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree from Dhaka University. After passing the final professional examination, there is a compulsory one-year internship. The internship is a prerequisite for obtaining registration from the BMDC to practice medicine.[1][3][4]

Academic facilities includes:

• Three Lecture Halls equipped with microphone system, OHP, Slide Projector and Whiteboard

• Six Tutorial Rooms- 1-2 rooms for one department

• Nine Laboratories- Histology-1, Phiology-1, Biochemistry-1, Phamacology-2, Pathology-2, Microbiology-2, provided with necessary equipment, microscope, histology slides, glass wares, reagents etc.

• One Dissection Hall- providing arrangements of dissection on four cadavers at a time. It also has space for demonstration of 75 students divided into three groups in four corners.

• Four Museums- Anatomy-1, Pathology-1, Community Medicine-1 and one for Forensic Medicine which contains a adequate number of specimen, charts and models.

• Medical Education Unit

A well designed and enriched library equipped with advanced study materials is secured for a comfortable and noise free study environment. There are a plenty of books from different tastes along with medical science. Besides, the library keeps journals and periodicals and daily newspapers. Audio-visual, e-mail and internet facilities are available in the library. Students can avail a facility of photocopying.

Monno Medical College publishes a Journal entitled `Journalof Monno Medical College’ which is a peer reviewed biennial medical journal with different scientific research articles by the faculties of this medical college as well as the researchers of the different hospitals and Institutions.

Training program for teachers are launched in this Medical education corner to develop teaching and research skills of the faculty members. Workshops, seminars on teaching and research methodology for the teachers usually take place here in the MEU.

Monno Medical College Hospital is a five storied building having 1,42,000 sq.ft. floor space and functioning as a 500 bedded hospital with all modern facilities for treatment of all kind of diseases with a group of highly qualified doctors. The outdoor and emergency treatments are furnished in a two storied building annexed to the main hospital. The hospital is situated in the door step of the college building.

Night beauty of Monno Medical College

The college is facilitated with a ten storied building with three spacious lifts having a total floor space of 1, 22,000sq.ft. The area of college campus is more than 13 acres of land with a scenic beauty. A lake inside the campus has made it a visually lucrative place for all. Accommodation of the college includes:

• Two separate four storied teacher’s quarters

• A four storied Professor’s quarter

• Two different hostels with 250 Seats for boys & girls

• A wide playground

• A two storied mosque

• A two storied cafeteria

• A Doctors dormitory

• A staff quarters

There are two four-storied hostels for the students. They are H.R. Khan Boys hostel and Hurun Nahar Girls Hostel. Besides Abdus Shukur Khan Doctors dormitory for intern-male, Rabeya Khatun Doctors Dormitory for intern-female, H.R. Khan Doctors quarter, Monno Professors Quarter respectively.

Admission for Bangladeshis to the MBBS programmes at all medical colleges in Bangladesh (government and private) is conducted centrally by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). It administers a written multiple choice question exam simultaneously throughout the country. Candidates are admitted based primarily on their score on this test, although grades at Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC) level also play a part. As of December 2017, the college is allowed to admit 80 students annually permitting 50% seats for foreigners.

Credit: Dr. Md. Atikuzzaman (Monno-4)