Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance (QA) in Popular Medical College

Student centric, teacher guided, parent supported, community oriented and values driven education program.

Curriculum
Monitored
Implementation & standard review
NQAB
Reviewed
External quality parameters
Students
Focused
Learning experience improvement
QA Overview

Why Quality Assurance matters

Apart from being able to provide the highest standard of care for the sick, the doctors of tomorrow require to be a good decision maker with fine communication & management skills and capable of providing the required leadership when the situation demands. To ensure this a persistent and systematic process of quality assurance cannot be over emphasized. Popular Medical College believes in student centric, teacher guided, parent supported, community oriented and values driven education program to produce competence based medical graduates capable of 'taking charge of the future'.

Popular medical College ensures Quality Assurance of the medical curriculum through its Institutional Quality Assurance Body which is overviewed by the National Quality Assurance Body (NQAB) of Bangladesh.

Quality Assurance (QA) is the totality of systems, resources and information devoted to maintain and improve the quality and standard of teaching, scholarship, research and the students learning experience. The Quality Assurance (QA) scheme in medical education review the way a college implements its course. Popular Medical College is having a strong Quality Assurance Body to monitor its education system, way of implementation of the course and the standard of teaching imparted to the students.

Popular Medical College is accountable to the people of Bangladesh to produce medical graduates who are competent to deliver the health care which the community requires. The college operates the QA process within a management system consistent with the attitude of a self-evaluating institution. This is externally reviewed by the National Quality Assurance Body (NQAB) based on quality parameters pertaining to teaching, training and research.

Key Focus

What we ensure

  • Student learning experience improvement
  • Course implementation monitoring
  • Teaching & training quality parameters
  • Research & scholarship standards
  • NQAB aligned self-evaluation process
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Structure

QA Bodies

Institutional QA Body
Monitors education system & implementation
National QA Body (NQAB)
Externally reviews based on quality parameters
 
Faculty Development

Faculty Development Programs of the year (an overview)

The greatest asset of an educational institute is its teaching staff and Popular Medical College has a large number of highly qualified experienced & eminent teachers who are best of the bests. The college provides for its teaching staff the opportunity to further develop their abilities in relation to teaching and learning through the Faculty Development and Review Scheme.

It makes available an on-going programme of faculty development on teaching and learning, assessment and evaluation, research methodology, research and medical writing through the Medical Education Unit (MEU) of the college. It facilitates the departments in preparation of self-assessment reports of academic performance as per guidelines given by National Quality Assurance Body.




Mission 
To ensure effective planning, coordination, monitoring, and continuous improvement of academic activities in accordance with regulatory guidelines, while maintaining high standards of medical education, curriculum implementation, assessment, and faculty development.
 

Academic Co-ordination Committee

 
Chairman : 
Prof Mahamud Riyad.
Vice principal & Academic Co-ordinator
Student Reprasentative :
Md. Abidur Rahman (Session: 2020-2021, Roll-60)
Tasnim Shehjabeen Mahabub (Session: 2021-2022, Roll-67)
Mohammad Sanower Rahman (Session: 2022-2023. Roll-58)
Rafia Farhana (Session: 2023-2024, Roll-10)
Avishek Halder (Session: 2024-2025. Roll-27)
 
Member : 
Prot. Shameen. Begum. Head of Physiology & Phase I Co-ordinator
Prof. Kh. A. Karim. Head of Forensic Medicine & Phase II Co-ordinator
Prof. Enamul Kabir. Head of Pathology & Phase III Co-ordinator
Prof. Md. Mujibor Rahman, Head of Medicine & Phase-IV Co-ordinator

Roles and Responsibilities

  • ​Accountable to the academic council
  • Oversee the academic activities.
  • Chairperson of academic coordination committee will present the annual report on operation of MBBS/BDS course to the academic council & ensure that the recommendations of academic council are implemented.
  • Sit four times in a year and any time if needed
  • Prepare annual report of college
  • Ensure extra-curricular activities (annual sports, cultural programs and annual magazine etc.) in the colleges as well as mention the events in the annual report.
  • Prepare academic calendar when necessary.
  • Chairperson will act as the members secretary of faculty development & review committee
  • Perform other activities as given by academic council.

Quality Assurance Committee

 
Chairman : 
Prof. Md. Faruq Alam,
Dept. of Psychiatry 
Member Secretary : 
Prof. Muhammad Mahbubul Alam, Prof. Pharmacology
 
Member : 
Dr. Md. Abdul Quader, Assoc. Prof., Blood Transfusion
Dr. Hasina Sadia Khan, Assoc. Prof., Urology
Dr. Razia Sultana, Assoc. Prof., Physiology
Dr. Arshaful Azim, Assoc. Prof., Anatomy
Dr. Taznuva Anvar, Assoc. Prof, Biochemistry
Dr. Mahmuda Ansari, Asst. Prof, Community Medicine
Dr. Mohammad Shafaul Alam, Asst. Professor, Pathology
Dr. Mostafizur Rahman Asst. Professor of Microbiology
Dr. Sarwat Ara Taslim Shukty, Asst. Professor, Forensic Medicine
Dr. Benozir Haque Assistant Professor, Gynae & Obs
Dr. Tamanna Mustary- Assistant Professor of Dermatologyils

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