MEDICAL EDUCATION IN BANGLADESH PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

The nature of medical education in Bangladesh is inherited from the then Pakistan. Although the task force set up in the year 2002 for updating new curriculum, promulgated in the academic year 2003-2004, it essentially remains the same for undergraduate medical education. About 20 in public sector and at the time of writing this paper about 38 medical colleges in private sectors conduct a five years course and offer MBBS degrees to more than 5000 students enrolled per year. The ratio of public to private sector graduates is almost 50:50. So far, medical education in Bangladesh is the shared responsibility of three different authorities ministry of health, Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council (BM&DC;) and on the regional basis of existence any of the public Universities.