Medical science course at reasonable costs in NIMC
Sunday, 23 May 2010
FE Special
MEDICAL treatment is a fundamental human right. Until now the government has few initiatives in this field. Again, due to increasing population the government fails to keep pace with the need of people and thereby lag behind. In Bangladesh, the country has got only one doctor for 12,425 people. The country has got a large part of population who, in their lifetime, cannot be able to consult an MBBS doctor even once before their death. Thus, it has become a great challenge for the people to prepare adequate doctors in healthcare sector. Under these circumstances, some private medical colleges and hospitals have been established alongside the public medical colleges and hospitals. Northern International Medical College (NIMC) is one of them.
Northern International Medical College and Hospital (NIMCH) was established in 2005. It is a private medical college, which has fulfilled all the requirements of the ordinance enacted by the Government's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. It is established and run by a human and social welfare institution which is known as International Business Agriculture and Technology (IBAT) Trust.
NIMCH offers an opportunity to prepare a good doctor even from a middle class family. On the basis of information, it has got 220 students studying at NIMC. Among all other public and private medical colleges, which are run by the University of Dhaka, its first batch stood 4th in the first professional MBBS examination, which was held in January 2008. As many as 87.50 per cent students successfully passed in the examination. The students of next few batches are also progressing well towards becoming successful doctors to serve the nation. The progress of the college is a story of success whereas there are lots of complaints against other private medical colleges and some of them have already lost their approval due to failure in following the ordinance. NIMC is self-sufficient with its administrative, structural and academic sides. At present, it has got 60 full-time faculty members including 15 professors, four associate professors, seven assistant professors and 34 lecturers. Professor Dr. Anwar Hossain, former head of department of Forensic Medicine, Mymensingh Medical College, is serving as the Principal of NIMC.
The college uses effective teaching methods with multimedia and computer software, and this ensures the application of a balanced and well-planned medical teaching curriculum. Creating a congenial atmosphere to teachers and students, monitoring and evaluation of all the activities and methods are the features of NIMC. Every month the college prepares an academic calendar mentioning details of classes, assignments, subjects, evaluations, teachers, places, and times from where students can know about their individual responsibilities. The in-course examination is conducted and evaluated through regular test, periodic test/assignment, completion of periodic examination. Since its inception the college has given importance to enriching students with essential knowledge, skill, modern attitude along with their professional development so that they can plan about their future study and training and can be confident to become a doctor of international standard. NIMC has got an administrative department, four well-decorated Para Clinic and Pre-clinical divisions, computer labs and library. All classrooms, dissection hall, exam hall and museums are fully air conditioned and well-decorated. The campus has got three lecture halls and three seminar/tutorial rooms equipped with multimedia and other visual arrangements. The library has got a large number of collection of textbooks, reference books and journals. Students can borrow books and around 40 students can study in the library at a time. The college was established with a view to serving the common people where talented students from middle-class families can have the opportunity of fulfilling their desire to become doctors. Students have the opportunity of receiving 5-10 per cent scholarship alongside government approved 5.00 per cent scholarship. The college authority has arranged for scholarship and fee waiver for those who do well in exams of different terms and sessions.
One of the basic problems of private medical college is lack of hospitals, which are appropriate for practice. Regarding this, this college is an exception as it is a multi-disciplinary self-sufficient medical college with 300-bed hospital situated at Dhanmondi Road #15 in the capital. The modern 6-storey-building hospital has got one lac square feet space and a land of 20 katha. In the meantime, NIMCH has drawn the attention of general people with its indoor and outdoor treatment. It is a bit difficult and seems to be dreamy to get treatment at reasonable cost from a posh area like Dhanmondi. NIMCH has arranged 50 free beds for poor patients and they need not buy anything except medicine. Moreover, they can buy a ticket of Tk 20 and get treatment from specialist doctors of medicine, surgery, gynecology, ENT, child, eye, etc. They can get this service from outdoor which is available from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm.
MEDICAL treatment is a fundamental human right. Until now the government has few initiatives in this field. Again, due to increasing population the government fails to keep pace with the need of people and thereby lag behind. In Bangladesh, the country has got only one doctor for 12,425 people. The country has got a large part of population who, in their lifetime, cannot be able to consult an MBBS doctor even once before their death. Thus, it has become a great challenge for the people to prepare adequate doctors in healthcare sector. Under these circumstances, some private medical colleges and hospitals have been established alongside the public medical colleges and hospitals. Northern International Medical College (NIMC) is one of them.
Northern International Medical College and Hospital (NIMCH) was established in 2005. It is a private medical college, which has fulfilled all the requirements of the ordinance enacted by the Government's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. It is established and run by a human and social welfare institution which is known as International Business Agriculture and Technology (IBAT) Trust.
NIMCH offers an opportunity to prepare a good doctor even from a middle class family. On the basis of information, it has got 220 students studying at NIMC. Among all other public and private medical colleges, which are run by the University of Dhaka, its first batch stood 4th in the first professional MBBS examination, which was held in January 2008. As many as 87.50 per cent students successfully passed in the examination. The students of next few batches are also progressing well towards becoming successful doctors to serve the nation. The progress of the college is a story of success whereas there are lots of complaints against other private medical colleges and some of them have already lost their approval due to failure in following the ordinance. NIMC is self-sufficient with its administrative, structural and academic sides. At present, it has got 60 full-time faculty members including 15 professors, four associate professors, seven assistant professors and 34 lecturers. Professor Dr. Anwar Hossain, former head of department of Forensic Medicine, Mymensingh Medical College, is serving as the Principal of NIMC.
The college uses effective teaching methods with multimedia and computer software, and this ensures the application of a balanced and well-planned medical teaching curriculum. Creating a congenial atmosphere to teachers and students, monitoring and evaluation of all the activities and methods are the features of NIMC. Every month the college prepares an academic calendar mentioning details of classes, assignments, subjects, evaluations, teachers, places, and times from where students can know about their individual responsibilities. The in-course examination is conducted and evaluated through regular test, periodic test/assignment, completion of periodic examination. Since its inception the college has given importance to enriching students with essential knowledge, skill, modern attitude along with their professional development so that they can plan about their future study and training and can be confident to become a doctor of international standard. NIMC has got an administrative department, four well-decorated Para Clinic and Pre-clinical divisions, computer labs and library. All classrooms, dissection hall, exam hall and museums are fully air conditioned and well-decorated. The campus has got three lecture halls and three seminar/tutorial rooms equipped with multimedia and other visual arrangements. The library has got a large number of collection of textbooks, reference books and journals. Students can borrow books and around 40 students can study in the library at a time. The college was established with a view to serving the common people where talented students from middle-class families can have the opportunity of fulfilling their desire to become doctors. Students have the opportunity of receiving 5-10 per cent scholarship alongside government approved 5.00 per cent scholarship. The college authority has arranged for scholarship and fee waiver for those who do well in exams of different terms and sessions.
One of the basic problems of private medical college is lack of hospitals, which are appropriate for practice. Regarding this, this college is an exception as it is a multi-disciplinary self-sufficient medical college with 300-bed hospital situated at Dhanmondi Road #15 in the capital. The modern 6-storey-building hospital has got one lac square feet space and a land of 20 katha. In the meantime, NIMCH has drawn the attention of general people with its indoor and outdoor treatment. It is a bit difficult and seems to be dreamy to get treatment at reasonable cost from a posh area like Dhanmondi. NIMCH has arranged 50 free beds for poor patients and they need not buy anything except medicine. Moreover, they can buy a ticket of Tk 20 and get treatment from specialist doctors of medicine, surgery, gynecology, ENT, child, eye, etc. They can get this service from outdoor which is available from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm.