M. A. G Osmani Medical College, Sylhet

MAG Osmani Medical College,Sylhet is a state funded medical college in Bangladesh. It is located in the north-eastern city of Sylhet in Sylhet District. The college is named after General Muhammad Ataul Gani Osmani, a native of Sylhet, and the commander-in-chief of Bangladesh Army during Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. The college provides 5 year MBBS degrees, and admits approximately 150 students each year. The college is affiliated to Shahjalal University of Science and Technology under the School of Medical Sciences.

History
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.

Campus
The college and hospital extends over an areas of 206, 355 sq M divided into new site and old site. The Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical college situated in the new site covers an area of 191, 977 sq M.
 * Old campus
 * New campus
 * Model family planning clinic
 * Nuclear medicine center
 * Nurses training institute

Main campus comprises individual facilities of: Other many nearby hospitals are also affiliated with main academic schedule. These include:
 * A three-storied College building complex,
 * A five-storied 1000 bed large Hospital building complex,
 * A Nuclear Medicine unit, and Model Family Planning clinic
 * The Nurses training institute also run along with the medical courses.
 * Shahid Dr. Shamsuddin Ahmed General Hospital,
 * Leprosy Hospital,
 * TB clinic, Infectious disease Hospital and
 * The nearby Thana Health Complexes.

Degrees
Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College now offer 19 postgraduate courses.It all started with only four diplomas in July, 1999. The presently available courses are MD (Internal Medicine, Paediatrics and Cardiology), MS ( General Surgery, Obstetrics gynaecology, Ophthalmology, Paediatric Surgery and Orthopaedics), M.Phil (Anatomy, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Microbiology, Pathology, Psychiatry),one year diplomas(Forensic medicine,Clinical Pathology, Child health, Dermatology, Obstetrics gynaecology. The college now has more than 1000 undergraduate students and around 400 postgraduate students.All the courses (both undergraduate and postgraduate courses) are recognized by the National regulatory agency( Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council).


 * GRADUATION	:	M.B.B.S.


 * POST GRADUATION
 * DIPLOMA	:	DGO, DDV, DCP, DCH, DFM
 * M. PHIL	:	PHARMACOLOGY, PATHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRY, BIO-CHEMISTRY
 * M.D.	:	GENERAL MEDICINE, PAEDIATRICS, CARDIOLOGY.
 * M.S.	:	GENERAL SURGERY, OPHTHALMOLOGY, ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY, PAEDIATRIC SURGERY, OBS & GYNAE.

Journals
Two medical journals are published from the college.one Sylhet Medical Journal and another is Osmani Medical Teachers Association Journal. Both are recognized by Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council(BMDC).The college has a website: magosmanimedical.com Research environment of the college is also students friendly. Postgraduate students involved in research work as part of the requirement for degree/diploma are regularly provided with all institutional support including financial aid. Seminars & workshops are regularly held to train junior teachers & postgraduate students on different aspect of ‘biomedical research’ including research ethics. The college has a ‘Research cell’ established by BMRC. Laboratories of different preclinical and para-clinical subjects are systematically upgraded to cater the ever increasing needs of postgraduate research students. Good number of research works from the faculty members are published each year in different medical journals inside and outside the country.