WELCOME TO MAG OSMANI MEDICAL COLLEGE

Teacher and student of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College warmly welcome you to this camps and wish you a very happy and successful career as you plan to unfold perhaps best chapter of your life with us here. We also hope that you will fiend yourself in a very congenial surrounding and be able to find peers of your choice in no time in pursuit of your academic aspirations and future ambition.

We also like to assure you of a very mixed experience in this campus which will certainly add your varied experience to sharpen your intellect and make you wiser faster than you expect in more than only academic domains. Indeed, such should be the experience in a career as this where dealing with diverse human character and need would be the ultimate concern of every one like you. Such a challenging profession with its fascinating puzzles and deep commitment to human values and expectation cannot but attract those who have the highest regard for all these. Therefor, We believe these are the challenges that you will be more than willing to face in the course of your future career as you steadily blossom into a competent medical graduate. We on our part would like to assure you of all possible assistance to enhance your academic and other related interests and in turn we believe you will dedicate yourself in giving this institution nothing but your very best to sustain our confidence in you.

We expect to have any you in this prestigious academic institution recognized by the GMC of Great Britain as one of its worthy adherents and again wish a very happy and prosperous future regardless of your final choice of career. 

Sylhet, famous for the shrine of the celebrated saint Hazrat Shahjalal (R.), has been in the forefront India.

Modern medicine was introduced to the community by the establishment of an institutional hospital in the heart of the city in 1936 which was later upgraded to cater for the British and allied troops of Burma front in World War II. In the year 1948, the hospital was further upgraded and extended to convert it into a  medical school with appropriate teaching staff and residential accommodations in order to produce Licentiate of Medical Faculty (LMF) doctors.

Later on the Govt. decided to start a five years course leasing to MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery) degree and as such in 1962, the Sylhet Medical College come into being. The bed strength was increased to 300, The college was initially start with 27 student and was affiliated to the faculty of Medicine of Dhaka University, with the upgrading of the medical school into a medical college, the need for a larger space for housing the various departments as well as a quieter and congenial surrounding became obvious. As a result of which the present location in the western sector of the town was selected for the purpose, where the collage was finally shifted in 1969 and the bad strength was increased to 500. Since then the college has been continuing its steady progress. The number of admitted students is now 150 per year, which is the same in all the medical collage in Bangladesh. Hospital for tuberculosis and chest diseases founded in 1953, Leprosy hospital in 1962, Infectious diseases hospital in1982, are all affiliated to the college. A Nuclear Medical Center was also established within the campus in 1981. 

Since the liberation in 1971 there has been steady progress in many sector like accommodation of female students, establishment of coronary care unit, endoscopy unit, diarrhoeal disorder cell, establishment of department of microbiology, department of biochemistry and the department of radiotherapy. Recently department of paediatric surgery, neuro surgery and neuro medicine have also been started in the collage. Post graduate courses of various disciplines have been started in this college since 1999.

In the year 1986, the college was renamed “Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College” after late General MAG Osmani, the liberation war hero.

Since then the college has made steady forward and in time it was realized that the college was ready for greater honors for what it and already achieved during the years since its inception and particularly in view of the fact that the college used to be recognized by the GMC until its deracognition in 1972 together with other medical college in the sub-continent. In January 1993 the collage was recognized by the General Medical council of U.K. for unlimited period. We believe our students will continue to work as hard as ever to uphold this unique honor bestowed on us to enhance the prestige of this institution even further.

LOCATION

Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical Collage, established in the year 1992, is located in the western sector of Sylhet City Sylhet in an old city situated on the bank of the river Surma, in the north east part of Bangladesh. The city is about 300 km. from Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. It has an excellent rail, road, air and river communication with the capital city Dhaka and port city Chittagong. By air, the journey from Dhaka to Sylhet takes 22 minutes.

 

LAYBRERY

The library is situated on the 1st floor, just above the administrative block of the college building complex, comprising a floor space of 1,080 sq. meters. It provides sitting capacity for 140 students at a time and remains open from 8 am to 10 pm in all working days.
A separate postgraduate library has been established to facilitate teaching environment for the postgraduate students.

The library has over 25000 books of different disciplines and specialties including the latest editions of books of all the major subjects. It receives all leading medical journals regularly including foreign journals

All books and journals are properly indexed and catalogued with computerized database. In addition there are departmental miniature libraries for references.

Students and staff of the institute avail the library facilities of the public Library Sylhet. There is also the facility for interlibrary exchange program with the National Medical Library at Dhaka .

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