Southern Medical College, Chittagong, Bangladesh was established in 2005 and is affiliated with the University of Chittagong which is approved by Medical Council of India (MCI). Therefore, Indian students are eligible to apply for NOC from MCI and sit for the screening test in India upon completion of their degree at Southern Medical College. The medium of instruction at Southern Medical College is English. Teaching will be imparted to the students through lectures, demonstrations, tutorials, practical classes. Periodic clinical meeting, seminars, symposium, and workshop on different subjects. The course duration is of 5 years.
The college is a Private college by status and is also approved by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh. It is also approved by Nepal Medical Council. Southern Medical College is located in Chittagong which is the second largest city in Bangladesh with a population of more than 2.5 million people. This means a steady patient flow for students during their clinical practice. Southern Medical College is one of the best colleges for MBBS in Bangladesh.
About the Campus
Southern Medical College & Hospital is across 2.5 acres of land at East Nasirabad, Khulshi, Chittagong. The campus houses the administrative offices & all the departments which are well organized, well furnished & adequately equipped for the lectures, tutorials, dissection. There are also well equipped laboratory, practical room, museum & library with adequate books, journals and computer with internet facilities.
The campus of Southern Medical College & Hospital has the following infrastructure:
- One four storied academic building.
- One five storied hospital building.
- One five storied student hospital building.
- One kidney dialysis unit.
- One six storied hospital building.
MBBS Course
- Department of Pharmacology
- Department of Pediatric Medicine
- Department of Anatomy
- Department of Biochemistry
- Department of Physiology
- Department of Community Medicine
- Department of Forensic Medicine
- Department of Microbiology
- Department of Pathology
Course Features
- Course Name UG
- Duration 5+1 Years
- Medium English
- Recognition NMC/WHO/WDOMS/BMDC
- Foreign Student
- Total Intake
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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 |
||||
| 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) |
|||||||||
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 |
|||||||||||||
| 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. |
|||||||||||||
| 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. |
||||||||||||||
| 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 |
|||||||||
| 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) |
||||||||||
| 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. |
||||||||||
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 36,000 USD | 18,000 USD | HOSTEL INCLUDED, FOOD COST 25 USD P/M |
MBBS in Bangladesh Eligibility
Criteria for Admission of Foreign Students in the MBBS and BDS Courses in the Private Medical
Colleges/’Dental Colleges/Dental Units/Institutes in Bangladesh for 2022–23 academic year under self–
finance scheme.
- Equivalence of Foreign Degree:
Must have passed qualifying examinations (HSC/A–level) or equivalent examination.
SSC/ O–level or equivalent examination passed not before 2019
HSC/ A–level or equivalent examination passed not before 2021
Minimum aggregate GPA in SSC/O–level or equivalent and HSC/A–level or equivalent
examination: 7:00 (seven)
Minimum GP in biology: 4.0 out of 5.0 (Five) scale.
For calculating GPA against the percentage of marks obtained in SSC/O–level or
equivalent exam, only top 5 subjects are re considered. - For calculation of GPA against the marks obtained in HSC/A– level or equivalent exam,
only 3 subjects (Physics. Chemistry and Biology) are considered. - Application Form: Duly filled online application forms in specific template and upload the
stated above by 30 March, 2023. - All certificates must be duly attested. by the competent authority, i.e. Education and the
Foreign Ministries of the respective countries. - Successful applicants have to produce all academic certificates, admit cards and mark–
sheets/ transcripts in original at the time of their admission. - Year of passing 12th Not More than One year gap.
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