Student Teaching
All Assistant and Associate Professors teach students who are placed in the wards, everyday in the morning. Students are placed in small groups of 8 students which improve the teacher- student interaction. Student teaching in the morning is primarily done by Faculty Members. Registrars teach students in the evening session. Students are required to complete their cards before being allowed to take the MBBS final professional examinations.

Post Graduate Teaching
Regular postgraduate teaching is imparted to Registrars, Assistant Registrars and Interns with regard to theory, diagnosis and management of patients. Registrars and Assistant Registrars are encouraged to attend teaching sessions in class rooms and wards. Complicated cases are routinely discussed with them with a view to training them in the management of patients. Assistant Registrars have hands on training with regard to management of patients. The Intensive Care Unit and the Coronary Care Unit serve as ideal points for teaching on critically ill patients.

Journal Club and Radiology Meeting
Journal Club and Radiology Meeting are held in clinical departments once weekly and are attended by all members of the Department. Papers are read by the members of the Faculty, interns and junior doctors and important journals are regularly covered. Important X-rays, MRI and CT scans are discussed by Radiologists.

Seminars
Seminars and Clinical Meetings are held on a regular basis. Presentations are made by distinguished speakers from the College, from other medical institutions in Bangladesh and outside the country.

Morning Session
Daily discussion meetings are held every morning department wise with Interns, Assistant Registrars and Faculty Members. Interesting cases that are admitted the previous day are presented in detail by the Interns and the Assistant Registrars along with the Consultant on call for the day. Symptoms, physical signs, diagnosis, investigations like X-rays, ECG and laboratory tests are discussed in detail along with management plans. The Morning Session is well attended and is an excellent teaching and learning session for all.

FACILITIES FOR TRAINING

Teaching Staff
All departments have well qualified members in their teaching staff, trained in Bangladesh, United Kingdom, United States and other countries. The management and the teaching staff are highly motivated and sincerely interested in optimal patient care, and in the teaching of medical students and junior doctors. Excellent and intensive supervision is provided to them.

Inpatients
This consists of non- paying male and female beds, paying beds, and cabins for patients to be admitted. The College and Hospital have a well organised system of Interns, Assistant Registrars and Registrars in training positions. Admission of patients cover a wide range of pathology giving excellent exposure for training. All admissions are covered by Assistant Professors and above. Morning and evening rounds, as well as weekend rounds are conducted by them on a regular basis. In addition, they come to the Hospital when they are called even during odd hours. Patient care is supported by adequate radiology and pathology services for investigations.

Intensive Care Unit/ Coronary Care Unit/ Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
The Intensive Care Unit has 8 beds and critically ill patients are routinely admitted with a high percentage of bed occupancy. The Coronary Care Unit has 8 beds. The list of patients include shock, coronary heart disease, respiratory and liver failure, patients with gastrointestinal bleeding, septic patients and other critically ill surgical, obstetrics/ gynaecological patients. The ICU and the CCU regularly receive referrals from BIRDEM, Dhaka Medical College and other Institutions in Bangladesh. They are well equipped with ventilators, cardiac monitors, CVP lines and monitoring, pulse oximeter, lung function test machine and are staffed by physicians 24 hours a day throughout the year. Neonatal Intensive Care Unit has 3 incubators and ventilator for the management of critically ill newborns.