Founded in 1993, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) is one of the oldest and leading private universities in Bangladesh where academic excellence is a tradition, teaching a passion and lifelong learning a habit. IUB currently has more than 9,800 undergraduate and graduate students and over 13,700 alumni. The students of IUB experience an exciting academic life with copious opportunities to explore and nurture their innate talent.
Live in Field Experience (LFE) is a signature course of IUB. It allows IUB students, most of whom come from urban settings, to have an immersive experience of everyday life in rural Bangladesh. Unique in Bangladesh, the overarching idea, which owes its roots to some of the leading social thinkers of this region, is to bridge the gap in knowledge that an urban student has about their rural counterparts. As part of the LFE, which is a mandatory course, small groups of students (usually 5-10, mix of male and female, and English and Bangla medium backgrounds) spend a certain amount of time at different locations in Bangladesh and experience life in the fields.
Symposium on 'Public Health in Medical Education' brings together key stakeholders
13/05/2024
Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organized a symposium titled “Public Health in Medical Education” on June 10, 2023. The event was organized by IUB’s Department of Public Health under the School of Pharmacy and Public Health in association with the Bangladesh government’s Directorate General of Medical Education (DGME).
Prof. Dr. Md. Titu Miah, Director General, DGME, attended the program as the Chief Guest. Prof. Dr. Abul Bashar Md Jamal, Additional Director General (Medical Education), DGME, delivered the keynote address. Tanweer Hasan, PhD, Vice Chancellor, IUB, chaired the symposium. Dr. Kamran ul Baset, Associate Director of Public Health at IUB, moderated the session, which was held at the Multipurpose Hall on the IUB campus in the Bashundhara Residential Area in Dhaka.
The panelists and participants emphasized on the importance of revising the current MBBS curriculum to give more importance to public health research and increasing community attachment. They also highlighted the need for standardization and BMDC accreditation of the MPH programs offered by different educational institutions in the country.
Public health experts, teachers and representatives from the government’s Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), UN and other bilateral agencies, public health institutes, research organizations, and medical colleges took part in the discussion at the symposium.
The second half of the symposium included an interactive workshop titled “Grant Writing and Finding Research Funding”, facilitated by Dr. Khairul Islam, Regional Director for South Asia at WaterAid.