Cumilla Medical College is a government medical college conducting MBBS and postgraduate courses in 6 disciplines under Chittagong Medical University and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU). Academic activities of Cumilla Medical College started in the 1991-1992 academic year.[1] Cumilla Medical College is situated at Kuchaitoli, Cumilla, Bangladesh, 5 kilometers south east from Cumilla town and 100 kilometers southeast from capital city Dhaka. It was established on 28 November 1979 by former president Lieutenant-General Ziaur Rahman. The first MBBS batch was admitted in 1981 (Session 1981–82). After a government decision in 1982, the academic program of CuMC (Cumilla Medical College) was suspended due to hospital expansion. The medical college reopened on 11 January 1992.[citation needed]
Admission
Candidates who have passed the H.S.C / A level or equivalent examination are selected centrally through a competitive admission test every year conducted by Directorate General of Health Services. Students from foreign countries have also been selected for admission to this college since the 2005–2006 session. The medium of instruction is English. A total 31 batches of students have been admitted, of which 26 batches have already graduated with an MBBS degree.[citation needed]
Infrastructure
CuMC Shaheed Minar
The land area of the college campus is 11 acres. The college building area is approximately 186,000 square feet, and the hospital building area is about 270,000 square feet. A total 35 departments are running in the college and hospital. Two female hostels, two boys hostels, two internee hostels, one post graduate student hostel, one Nursing Institute, one Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences, one morgue, staff quarters, mosque, Shaheed Minar and a playground are there in the campus.[citation needed]
Administration
General
Cumilla Medical College is a Government Medical College which administered by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Principal is the Executive head of the college. He communicates and implements all the regulations of the administrative authorities.
Academic Council
The Academic Council is the highest body of the college. The principal of Cumilla Medical College is the chairman, and the Director of Cumilla Medical College Hospital is an ex officio member of the Academic Council. The Heads of Departments of Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pathology, Microbiology, Pharmacology, Community Medicine, Forensic Medicine, Medicine, Surgery, and Gynecology & Obstetrics, along with all other full professors, are members of the council. Additionally, two senior-most associate professors, two senior-most assistant professors, and two nominated representatives of the students' union are also part of the council.
This body monitors and maintains control of the campus in order to ensure a smooth progress of the academic activities. It also refers the disciplinary matters to the Disciplinary Committee to take actions against those who violate any rule or regulation of the college.
There are one principal, one vice-principal, 22 professors, 33 associated professors, 41 assistant professors, 2 curators and 37 lecturers are the members of the institution.[citation needed]
Journals
Journal of Cumilla Medical College Teachers Association is the Official Journal of Cumilla Medical College, recognized by Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council.
