The Community Health Foundation Bangladesh was established in 1994 by thirty philanthropists from various professions under the leadership of Dr. AIM Mafakhkharul Islam. He believed that “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”, and he took this saying to heart.
The main objective of this foundation is to improve the health care service infrastructure in Bangladesh through community participation. This foundation has set up various medical camps, mobile medical camps and permanent clinics for the patients who are unable to visit hospitals due to financial constraints. The foundation also provides free treatment for those who cannot afford any kind of treatment but have serious diseases like cancer, tuberculosis and kidney failure etc.
The Community Health Foundation Bangladesh works on two basic principles: firstly, all patients should be treated equally irrespective of their socio-economic status; secondly, there should be no discrimination between rich and poor patients regarding treatment facilities.
In order to achieve its goal, this foundation is working tirelessly day and night under the supervision of its founder Dr AIM Mafakhkharul Islam who was an eminent physician and social worker whose death left a vacuum in his wake that cannot be filled easily by anyone else.
The Community-Based Medical College of Bangladesh is an academic enterprise at the Community Health Foundation. The college’s goal is to contribute modestly within the parameters of health and science as a whole, thereby achieving meaningful, sustainable quality of life improvements for its students, faculty and staff as well as for the surrounding community.
The college was established in 2016 with the mission to create a community based medical college that would be able to respond to the growing demand for high quality healthcare services by providing affordable medical education to underserved communities in Bangladesh. The college has been designed as a part of CHFB’s overall strategy to improve access to healthcare services in Bangladesh through affordable education and training programs.
The college’s philosophy is built on the belief that every person has the right to access affordable health care services regardless of their economic status or geographic location. This is accomplished through its partnership with local communities and organizations that provide financial support for projects that benefit their local communities.
CBMCB offers both undergraduate and postgraduate programs in various disciplines including medicine, nursing, pharmacy and public health sciences. The college also operates several rural clinics where students are trained in clinical practice under supervision from experienced physicians who serve as mentors during their rotations at these facilities.
If you’re looking for a medical college that’s close to both Dhaka and Mymensingh, then Community Based Medical College Bangladesh is your best bet. Located just 10km from Mymensingh town and adjacent to the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway road, our campus is easily accessible by public transport.
The college is located in a rural area of the country, with a population of about 30 million people. It is a campus that has beautiful surroundings and many facilities for students. The campus has a large campus and modern facilities such as classrooms, laboratories, auditoriums, libraries etc. There are also sports grounds and dormitories for students.
Basic Information About MBBS Course
- Name of the course: Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)
- Basic qualifications & prerequisite for entrance in MBBS Course:
(i) HSC or equivalent with Science.(Biology, Physics, Chemistry)
(ii) Candidate has to secure required grade point in the SSC and HSC examinations.
- Students selection procedure for MBBS course: According to a decision by the proper competent authority as per merit.
- Medium of Instruction: English
- Duration: MBBS course comprises of 5 Years, followed by logbook based rotatory internship for one year
Course structure and duration
The MBBS course is divided into four phases
| Phase | Duration | Subjects | Examination |
| 1st phase | 1½ year | Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry | First Professional MBBS |
| 2nd phase | 1 year | Community Medicine Forensic Medicine | Second Professional MBBS |
| 3rd phase | 1 year | Pharmacology & Therapeutics Pathology
Microbiology |
Third Professional MBBS |
| 4th phase | 1½ year | Medicine & Allied subjects Surgery & Allied subjects Obstetrics and Gynaecology | Final Professional MBBS |
NB: All academic activities including professional examination of each phase must be completed within the specified time of the phase.
Phase wise distribution of teaching-learning hours:
1st Phase
| Subject | Lecture (in hours) | Tutorial | Practical | Others | Integrated teaching | Formative Exam | Summative exam | Total | ||
| Preparatory
leave |
Exam time | Preparatory
leave |
Exam time | |||||||
| Anatomy | 115 | 53 | 52 | Dissection
+Card exam 310 |
30 hrs | 35 days | 42 days | 30 days | 30 days | 530 |
| Physiology | 120 | 120 | 100 | – | 340 | |||||
| Biochemistry | 120 | 100 | 100 | – | 320 | |||||
| Total | 355 | 273 | 252 | 310 | 1190 | |||||
| Behavioral science, communication skill and medical ethics will be taught through five lecturers (5 hours) within 1st phase under supervision of the Community Medicine department | 5 | |||||||||
| Grand Total | 1195 | |||||||||
| (Time for integrated teaching, exam. preparatory leave of formative & summative assessment is common for all subjects of the phase) | ||||||||||
| 2nd Phase | |||||||||
| Subject | Lecture (in hours) | Tutorial | Practical/Demonstration | Integrated teaching | Formative Exam | Summative exam | Total | ||
| Preparatory leave | Exam time | Preparatory leave | Exam time | ||||||
| Community Medicine | 110 | 160 | COME (community based medical education): 30 days (10 days day visit + 10 days RFST+ 10 days study tour)-30 days
(10+10+10) |
05 |
15 days |
15 days |
15 days |
20 days |
275 + 30 days |
| Forensic Medicine | 80 | 55 | 55 | 05 |
195 |
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| Total | 190 | 215 | 55 | 10 | 470 | ||||
| (Time for exam. preparatory leave and formative and summative assessment is common for all subjects of the phase) | |||||||||
| 3rd Phase | |||||||||
| Subject | Lecture
(in hours) |
Tutorial | Practical | Others | Formative Exam | Summative exam | Total | ||
| Preparatory
leave |
Exam time | Preparatory
leave |
Exam time | ||||||
| Parmacology & Therapeutics | 100 | 30 | 50 | Clinical Pharmacology
20 |
10 days |
15 days |
10 days |
15 days |
200 |
| Pathology | 100 | 100 | 28 | – | 228 | ||||
| Microbiology | 100 | 45 | 45 | – | 190 | ||||
| Total | 300 | 175 | 123 | 20 | 618 | ||||
|
(Time for exam. preparatory leave and formative and summative assessment is common for all subjects of the phase) |
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4th Phase
Medicine & Allied Subjects
| Subject | Lecture
(in hours) |
Tutorial classes |
Integrated teaching | Clinical (bedside teaching), in weeks | Total weeks | Block posting | Formative Exam | Summative exam | |||||
| 2nd
phase |
3rd
phase |
4th
phase |
Total | 2nd
phase |
3rd
phase |
4th phase |
4 weeks |
Preparatory leave-15 days Exam time -15 days | Preparatory leave-15 days Exam time -30 days | ||||
| Internal medicine | 26 | 24 | 110 | 160 | 200 | 20 hrs. | 14 | 06 | 12+2 (OPD) | 34 | |||
| Psychiatry | – | – | 20 | 20 | – | – | 03 | – | 03 | ||||
| Dermatology | – | – | 20 | 20 | – | – | 03 | – | 03 | ||||
| Pediatrics | 04 | 20 | 26 | 50 | 25 | 04 | – | 06 | 10 | ||||
| Physical
Medicine |
– | – | 05 | 05 | – | – | 02 | – | 02 | ||||
| Emergency | – | – | – | – | – | 02 | 02 | ||||||
| Total | 30 | 44 | 181 | 255 | 225 | 20 hrs. | 20 | 14 | 20 | 54 | 4
weeks |
||
| Grand Total | 500 hours | 58 weeks | 75 days | ||||||||||
| Time for exam, preparatory leave, formative & summative assessment is common for all subjects of the
phase |
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| Preventive aspects of all diseases will be given due importance in teaching learning considering public
health context of the country and others parts of the world. |
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| Related ethical issues will be discussed in all clinical teaching learning | |||||||||||||
Surgery & Allied Subjects
| Subject |
Lecture (in hours) |
Tutorial/Practical/Demonstration | Integrated teaching |
Clinical/Bedside teaching (in week) |
Total
Weeks |
Block posting | Formative Exam | Summative Exam | ||||||
| 2nd
Phase |
3rd
Phase |
4th
Phase |
Total | 2nd
Phase |
3rd
Phase |
4th
Phase |
4 weeks |
Preparatory leave -15 days |
Preparatory leave -15 days Exam time 30 days | |||||
| General Surgery | 35 | 30 | 60 | 125 |
200 |
20 |
12+4 | – | 6 | 22 | ||||
| Orthopaedics | 5 | 10 | 30 | 45 | – | 4 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
| Radiology | – | – | 5 | 5 | 1 | – | – | 1 | ||||||
| Radiotherapy | – | – | 8 | 8 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||||
| Transfusion medicine | – | 5 | – | 5 | 1 | – | – | 1 | ||||||
| Anesthesia | – | 10 | – | 10 | 1 | – | – | 1 | ||||||
| Neurosurgery | – | 2 | 5 | 7 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||||
| Pediatric
Surgery |
– | 5 | 10 | 15 | – | – | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Urology | – | 5 | 10 | 15 | – | – | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Burn Plastic
Surgery |
3 | – | 2 | 5 | – | – | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Emergency
& casualty |
– | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Dentistry | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | ||||||
| Ophthalmology | – |
40 hrs |
40 | – | 4 | 4 | 8 | |||||||
| Otolaryngology | – |
40 hrs |
40 | – | 4 | 4 | 8 | |||||||
| Total | 300 hrs | 200 | 20 | 20 weeks | 14 weeks | 24 weeks | 58 weeks | 4 weeks | ||||||
| Grand total | 520 hours | 62 weeks | 75 days | |||||||||||
| (Time for exam. preparatory leave and formative & summative assessment is common for all subjects of the phase) | ||||||||||||||
| Preventive aspects of all diseases will be given due importance in teaching, learning considering public health context
of the country and others parts of the world. |
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| Related ethical issues will be discussed in all clinical teaching learning | ||||||||||||||
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
| Lecture | Tutorial / Demonstration | Integrated
Teaching |
Total hours | Clinical bed side teaching in 3rd & 4th phase | Block placement | Formative Exam | Summative exam | |||
| Preparatory leave | Exam time | Preparatory leave | Exam time | |||||||
| 3rd
Phase |
4th
Phase |
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| 30
hrs |
70
hrs |
85 hrs | 15hrs | 200
hrs |
16 weeks
(8+8) |
4 weeks | 15 days | 15 day | 15
day |
30
day |
| (Time for exam. preparatory leave and formative & summative assessment is common for all subjects of the
phase) |
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| Preventive aspects of all diseases will be given due importance in teaching, learning considering public health
context of the country and others parts of the world. |
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| Related ethical issues will be discussed in all clinical teaching learning | ||||||||||
I. Eligibility for appearing in the professional examination:
- Certificate from the respective head of departments regarding students obtaining at least 75% attendance in all classes (theory, practical, tutorial, residential field practice, clinical placement etc.) during the phase.
- Obtaining at least 60% marks in examinations.
- No student shall be allowed to appear in the professional examinations unless the student passes in all the subjects of the previous professional examinations
J. Pass Marks:
Pass marks is 60%. Student shall have to pass written (MCQ + SAQ + formative), oral, practical and clinical examination separately.
K. Examinations & distribution of marks:
First Professional Examination
| Subjects | Written Exam marks | Structured Oral
Exam marks |
Practical
Exam marks |
Formative Exam marks | Total Marks | |
| Soft part | Hard part | |||||
| Anatomy | 180 | 150 | 75 | 75 | 20 | 500 |
| Physiology | 180 | 100 | 100 | 20 | 400 | |
| Biochemistry | 180 | 100 | 100 | 20 | 400 | |
| Total | 1300 | |||||
Second Professional Examination
| Subjects | Written Exam marks | Structured Oral Exam
marks |
Practical Exam marks | Formative Exam marks | Total Marks |
| Community Medicine | 90 | 100 | 100 | 10 | 300 |
| Forensic Medicine | 90 | 100 | 100 | 10 | 300 |
| Total | 600 | ||||
Third Professional Examination
| Subjects | Written Exam marks | Structured Oral
Exam marks |
Practical Exam marks | Formative Exam marks | Total Marks |
| Pharmacology & Therapeutics | 90 | 100 | 100 | 10 | 300 |
| Pathology | 90 | 100 | 100 | 10 | 300 |
| Microbiology | 90 | 100 | 100 | 10 | 300 |
| Total | 900 | ||||
Fourth Professional Examination
| Subjects | Written Exam marks | Structured Oral Exam marks | Clinical | Practical | Formative Exam marks | Total Marks |
| Medicine & Allied
Subject |
180 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 20 | 500 |
| Surgery & Allied Subject | 180 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 20 | 500 |
| Obstetrics & Gynecology | 180 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 20 | 500 |
| Total | 1500 | |||||
Common Rules for Examinations
- University professional examination to be started from May and
- University professional examinations will be completed within the specified time of the concerned phase
- No carry on system before passing 1st professional examination
- After passing 1st professional examination, students can appear for 2nd professional examinations if all other prerequisites for 2nd professional examination are fulfilled. In the meantime, students can attend clinical ward placement, teaching
- To appear3rd professional examination, students have to pass all the subjects of previous 2nd professional examination if all other prerequisites are In the meantime students can attend clinical ward placement, teaching learning.
- To appear 4th (Final) professional examination, students have to pass all the subjects of previous 3rd professional examination if all other prerequisites are fulfilled. In the meantime, students can attend clinical ward placement, teaching
| TOTAL FEES | FIRST YEAR FEES | HOSTEL AND FOOD COST |
|---|---|---|
| 45,600 USD | 17,030 USD | HOSTEL INCLUDED FOOD 50 USD P/M |
MBBS in Bangladesh Eligibility
- Bangladesh MBBS Course Duration 5 years (Session 2022-2023)
- Must have passed qualifying examinations (HSC/ ‘A’ level) or equivalent examination.
- Class 10 (X) or SSC/ ‘O’ or equivalent examination passed not before 2018
- Class 12 [XII (10+2)] or HSC/ ‘A’ or equivalent examination passed not before 2021
- Minimum aggregate GPA in SSC or equivalent and HSC or equivalent: 7.00 (eight)
- Min. GPA either in SSC or equivalent or in HSC or equivalent: 3.5
- Minimum GP in biology: 3.5
- For calculation of GPA against the marks obtained in SSC/ ‘O’ level or equivalent exam, only the top 5 subjects are considered for calculation of GPA. Therefore, GPA in ‘O’ level = (total marks obtained in the top five subjects): 5
- For calculation of GPA against the marks obtained in HSC/ ‘A’ level or equivalent exam, only 3 subjects (Physics, Chemistry, and Biology) are considered for calculation of GPA.
- Year of passing 12th Not More than One year gap.
