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The
college's
original
building
was
built
before
the
Partition
of
Bengal
of
1905.
As
of
1904,
the
building
was
being
used
as
the
secretariat
(headquarters)
of
the
newly
formed
provinces
of
East
Bengal
and
Assam.
In
1921,
it
was
turned
over
to
the
University
of
Dhaka,
which
was
founded
that
year.
A
part
of
the
huge
building
was
used
as
the
university's
medical
center,
another
part
as
the
students'
dormitory,
and
the
rest
as
the
office
of
the
administrative
wing
of
the
Arts
faculty.[7]
In
1939,
the
Dhaka
University
council
requested
the
British
Government
to
establish
a
separate
medical
college
in
Dhaka.
The
proposal
was
postponed
because
of
the
onset
of
the
Second
World
War.[7]
During
World
War
II
the
medical
center
building
became
an
American
armed
forces
hospital.
The
Americans
vacated
the
building
at
the
end
of
the
war.[7][8]
Establishment
of
the
college
Edit
In
1946,
due
to
the
partition
of
India,
all
the
advanced
students
(From
K-4
to
K-1)
as
well
as
many
lecturers
and
professors
were
transferred
from
Calcutta
Medical
College
to
start
academic
studies
and
maintain
hospital
facilities
in
the
newly
established
Dhaka
Medical
College.
Academic
classes
started
on
10
July,
which
is
celebrated
as
DMC
Day.[9][10]
Major
William
John
Virgin,
the
head
of
the
committee
formed
to
establish
the
Dhaka
Medical
College,
was
the
first
principal.
In
the
beginning
there
were
only
four
departments
–
medicine,
surgery,
gynecology
and
otolaryngology
(ENT).
Since
the
college
did
not
initially
have
anatomy
or
physiology
departments,
the
students
at
first
attended
those
classes
at
Mitford
Medical
School
(now
the
Sir
Salimullah
Medical
College);
but,
after
a
month,
Professor
of
Anatomy
Pashupati
Basu
and
Professor
of
Physiology
Hiralal
Saha
joined
the
staff
and
their
specialties
were
taught
in
ward
no.
22
of
the
hospital.[10]
Expansion
Edit
There
was
no
lecture
hall
nor
dissection
gallery
at
first.
These
needs
were
met
after
the
construction
of
new
academic
buildings
in
1955.
The
college
did
not
have
any
student
housing.
Male
students
were
allowed
to
reside
in
the
Dhaka
University's
student
halls,
but
female
students
did
not
have
the
use
of
that
facility.
The
college
and
hospital
premises
were
expanded
with
temporary
sheds,
some
of
which
were
built
for
outdoor
services
of
the
hospital
and
some
for
student
housing.
New
buildings
for
housing,
college,
and
hospital
were
constructed
in
phases:
a
dormitory
for
girls
in
1952,
a
dormitory
for
male
students
in
1954–55,
a
new
complex
of
academic
buildings
in
1955,
and
a
dormitory
for
internee
doctors
in
1974–75.[8]
A
new
academic
and
hospital
building,
adding
500
beds,
Dhaka
Medical
College
Hospital-2
(DMCH-2),
was
inaugurated
by
Prime
Minister
Sheikh
Hasina
on
3
October
2013.[11]
Origin
of
'K'
Edit
Every
student
batch,
or
class,
of
Dhaka
Medical
College
is
tagged
with
the
prefix
K
along
with
a
number.
The
first
year,
the
beginning
batch
of
the
college,
was
named
K-1,
likewise
second
year
as
K-2,
third
year
as
K-3,
fourth
year
as
K-4,
and
fifth
year
K-5.
In
2021,
DMC
is
hosting
its
78th
batch,
hence
branded
as
K-78.
Many
theories
about
the
origin
of
the
letter
K
exist,
the
most
popular
being
that
K
stands
for
Kolkata,
as
many
students
of
DMC's
earlier
batches
migrated
from
Calcutta
Medical
College.[12]
Though
Kolkata
was
officially
known
as
Calcutta
until
2001[13][14][15]
the
city
was
widely
pronounced
as
Kolkata/Kolikata
in
Bengali.
Though
the
first
ten
medical
schools
didn't
follow
this
tradition,
yet
another
theory
proposes
that,
as
the
institute
was
the
11th
medical
school
in
Indian
subcontinent,
K,
the
11th
letter
of
English
alphabet,
is
used
to
represent
that
.[10]
Fire
in
the
new
building
Edit
On
19
January
2022,
a
fire
was
broke
out
in
the
109
number
cabin
of
the
10th
floor
of
the
new
building
of
DMCH.[16]
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