Undergraduate medical education in Bangladesh: facts & challenges

The health professions education process should produce doctors who can be able to demonstrate essential competence in rendering comprehensive health care and ensure high quality care with empathy and respect as per needs of the population both for healthy and sick in particular. The Institute of International Medical Education (IIME) highlighted the “global minimum essential requirements” of health professions education should consist of medical knowledge, clinical skills, professional attitudes, behavior and ethics that all health professionals must have regardless of where they are trained.