Monno Medical College

Harunar Rashid Khan Monno established Monno Medical College in 2011.

Front view of Monno Medical College

Monno Medical College

The college is located in Monno City, Gilondo, Ghior Upazila, 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) west of Manikganj, on the south side of the Dhaka–Aricha Highway.[1] The main buildings on campus are ten-storied academic building; separate hostels for male students, female students,male interns and female interns, Dormitory for doctors & Professors; and Monno Medical College Hospital, the college's five-story, 500-bed teaching hospital.

The college is affiliated with Dhaka University as a constituent college.[1][2] The chairman of the college is Afroza Khan Rita. The principal is Md. Akhtaruzzaman.

The college offers a five-year course of study, approved by the Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council (BMDC), leading to a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree from Dhaka University. After passing the final professional examination, there is a compulsory one-year internship. The internship is a prerequisite for obtaining registration from the BMDC to practice medicine.[1][3][4]

There are four lecture galleries with computer multimedia projector, seven laboratories, three museums, one dissection room, one library and one computer lab for the students.

Monno Medical College Hospital is a five storied building having 1,42,000 sq.ft. floor space and functioning as a 500 bedded hospital with all modern facilities for treatment of all kind of diseases with a group of highly qualified doctors. The outdoor and emergency treatments are furnished in a two storied building annexed to the main hospital. The hospital is situated in the door step of the college building.

Night beauty of Monno Medical College

There are two four-storied hostels for the students. They are H.R. Khan Boys hostel and Hurun Nahar Girls Hostel. Besides Abdus Shukur Khan Doctors dormitory for intern-male, Rabeya Khatun Doctors Dormitory for intern-female, H.R. Khan Doctors quarter, Monno Professors Quarter respectively.

Admission for Bangladeshis to the MBBS programmes at all medical colleges in Bangladesh (government and private) is conducted centrally by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). It administers a written multiple choice question exam simultaneously throughout the country. Candidates are admitted based primarily on their score on this test, although grades at Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC) level also play a part. As of December 2017, the college is allowed to admit 80 students annually permitting 50% seats for foreigners.