Kumudini Women's Medical College

Kumudini Women's Medical College (KWMC) was established within the umbrella of Kumudini Welfare Trust in 2001. The aim is to materialize the dream of the founder by enrolling enthusiastic, dedicated and academically gifted female students who would pursue education which meet their needs and respond to the demand and opportunities of medicine, science, ethics and public policy. KWMC therefore recruits academically outstanding and culturally diverse students from Bangladesh and beyond. The college creates a rich supportive environment in which all students can attain their educational goals.

The college is committed to providing excellent medical education programs that produce skilled, compassionate and caring physicians who are proficient in the science and art of medicine, dedicated to the ethical and social principles of the profession and committed to a lifetime of continued learning. The goal of the college is to provide an excellent broad based education with a focus on professional development for the students to equip them with knowledge, skill and attitude necessary not only to address the priority of community but also to acquire a firm basis for future training and studies in medical science.

Kumudini Women's Medical College is implementing a well-designed curriculum for MBBS and BDS courses approved by the Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council. It is well equipped with adequate facilities for utilizing modern and effective instructional teaching-learning methods and aids in accordance with the curriculum. The academic environment nurtures development of faculties for improving quality of education through continuous monitoring and rigorous evaluation system. Physical infrastructure within the college and its affiliated hospital provides appropriate spaces for lecture, demonstrations, tutorials, practical and bed side clinical teaching. It has well equipped laboratories, tutorial rooms for small group discussion and one spacious dissection hall with a museum, library with wide reading room, students' common room, canteen, and fair price shop.

Kumudini Women's Medical College library named as Prof. M. A. Jalil Library is situated on the first floor of the college building. It provides seating arrangement for 150 students at a time. It remains open 8:00 am to 9:00 pm on all working days. Qualified librarians and their assistants run the library maintaining a disciplined calm and quiet environment for study. There is a separate reading room for the teachers. The library has sufficient number of academic and reference books of different discipline and specialties. It also has medicine and scientific journals and periodicals including international ones. All the books are duly indexed and catalogued. The teachers of the Medical College are able to meet the demand for ready references for ongoing research activities. Photocopying is also available at subsidized rate. In addition, the library is also equipped with computers and internet facility for browsing references and e- book, etc.