Preface

In the democratic society in a welfare state access to basic healthcare is a birthright of every citizen as endorsed in the United Nations Charter.

As a member of the United Nations Organization the Government of Bangladesh is also committed to healthcare of its people. Every nation has aspirations and cherished goals. A government of the people must inculcate its people's support and cooperation as complementary measure to achieve the national goals. And any institution built on this perspective must have clear concept, conviction and objectives to meet the dire challenge of the national needs in the health sector.

Community Based Medical College Bangladesh,established in 1995, by Community Health Foundation Bangladesh is a college with a difference. This institution is built with the following objectives:

Conceptual objectives :

3. to contribute modestly within the parameter of health and social science to the overall national efforts in achieving meaningful, self-sustaining quality of life and environment.

1. To develop an educational system catering to the felt-needs and problems of the community with built-in flexible academic strategies based on continued feedback, monitoring, analytic and evaluation mechanism now aptly called Quality Assurance Mechanism.

2. to bring about qualitative attitudinal change in the terminal behavioral trait of the passing out doctorsgrooming them as sympathetically responsive and empathetically active towards patients;professionally competent and ethically sound persons of the society.

Community Based Medical College Bangladesh began its journey in 1995 and has already produced 479 medical graduates of whom 278 are male and 201 are female under the University of Dhaka.

May the Almighty Allah fulfill the noble aspirations of the Founders, Teachers, Students and other personnel's of Community Based Medical College Bangladesh in mitigation of our mammoth health problems in whatsoever minute measurement.