Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University

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Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University
বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিব মেডিক্যাল বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়
Monogram of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.svg
Crest of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University
Other name
BSMMU
Former name
Institute of Postgraduate Medical Research (IPGMR)
Type Public Medical University
Established1965;59 years ago (1965) as PG Hospital, 1998;26 years ago (1998) as Medical University
Chancellor President of Bangladesh
Vice-Chancellor Deen Mohammad Noorul Huq [1]
Director (Hospital)Brig. Gen. Dr. Md. Nazrul Islam Khan [2]
Location,
23°44′20″N90°23′41″E / 23.7389°N 90.3948°E / 23.7389; 90.3948
Campus Shahbag, Dhaka city
Website bsmmu.edu.bd

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) is a graduate medical university in Bangladesh. It was established in 1965. The university offers postgraduate degrees only, not offering undergraduate medical or dental degrees.

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History

Establishment of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University was an upgrade of the Institute of Postgraduate Medicine and Research (IPGMR). IPGMR was established in December 1965, as a Government-controlled postgraduate institute for medical research and studies. It was housed in the now defunct Hotel Shahbag, once the biggest hotel in Dhaka. The hotel got its name Shahbag from the name of the neighborhood. [3]

From 2010, many of the medical and public health colleges/institutes have become affiliated to BSMMU. For example BIRDEM, BIHS, DMC, SSMC, NICVD, NITOR and others.[ citation needed ]

It was renamed as Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University by the Act 1, 1998 of Jatiyo Sangshad after the first President of Bangladesh, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.[ citation needed ]

Library and publications

BSMMU has an academic library known as BSMMU Central Library, and a digital library. The university publishes a peer-reviewed medical journal, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Journal. ISSN   2224-7750 (online) 2074-2908 (print). [4] It publishes 4 issue per year.

Vice-chancellors

The institution's top leadership, the vice-chancellor, has had ten individuals since it began in 1998: [5]

  1. M. A. Quadery (30 Apr 1998 - 9 Jan 2001)
  2. Md. Tahir (10 Jan 2001 - 17 May 2001)
  3. Mahmud Hasan (18 May 2001 - 23 Nov 2001)
  4. M. A. Mishu (24 Nov 2001 - 21 Dec 2006)
  5. Md. Tahir (21 Dec 2006 - 4 Nov 2008)
  6. Md. Nazrul Islam (5 Nov 2008 - 24 Mar 2009)
  7. Pran Gopal Datta (25 Mar 2009 – 24 Mar 2012)
  8. Pran Gopal Datta (25 Mar 2012 – 24 Mar 2015)
  9. Kamrul Hasan Khan (24 March 2015 – 23 Mar 2018)
  10. Kanak Kanti Barua (24 March 2018 –23 March 2021)
  11. Md. Sharfuddin Ahmed (29 March 2021–28 March 2024) [6]
  12. Deen Mohammad Noorul Huq (28 March - Present)

Campus

BSMMU campus has five multiple-floor buildings which house a variety of academic, medical, and residential spaces. [7] [ non-primary source needed ]


Bsmmu admission procedure

First you need to buy a ticket from Outdoor. Then visit the outdoor doctor and request him/her to write an admission order for a cabin on that ticket. Then admit your patient in that respective ward and submit the ticket in the Rent Collector office within 12 PM.There will be a meeting for Cabin Allocation. After 1 PM, you will find out the result. If you are allocated an empty cabin. If not you have to try the next day and so on.

Affiliated health sciences institutions

List of affiliated colleges/institutes under BSMMU: [8]

Notable alumni

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