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GENERATING SKILLED HUMAN RESOURCES IN DIABETES HEALTH CARE

BADAS is working with the vision to create skilled manpower in both the fields. It also established BIRDEM Academy, Bangladesh University of Health Sciences and Ibrahim Medical College to meet this end.

Formal Education
Under BADAS Facility Ibrahim Medical College offers a 5-year MBBS and BDS course approved by the Bangladesh Medical & Dental Council that helps lead to MBBS degree of the University of Dhaka and 1-year internship training at BIRDEM Hospital.
Faridpur Diabetic Association Medical College and North Bengal Medical College also offer a 5-year MBBS Course.
Currently, BIRDEM is running some postgraduate courses under the University of Dhaka such as: DEM, MPhil, MS, MD, PhD etc.
Bangladesh University of Health Sciences (BUHS) of BADAS had been established at Darus Salam, Mirpur to provide students with education. The organization offers Graduate and Post Graduate courses under the Faculty of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Public Health, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences and Faculty of Health Engineering & Technology.
BIRDEM also offers Diploma in Dermatology; Anesthesiology; Endocrinology & Metabolism; Radiology & Imaging; Dermatology & Venereology and Laboratory Medicine.
BIRDEM Nursing College, Faridpur Diabetic Association Nursing Institute, Rajshahi Diabetic Association Nursing Institute and Dinajpur Diabetic Association offer BSc in Nursing Sciences and Midwives. Apart from that NHN is running Diploma Course in Nursing Sciences and Midwives at Meghnaghat.
Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital and Research Institute offers Post Graduate Courses (MD & MS) MD in Cardiology and MS Cardiovascular Surgery course.

Distance Learning Program on Cardiovascular Disease (DLP-CCVD)
Nursing Courses:
A. Diploma in Cardiac Nursing Course:
B. Training Course on Cardiac Nursing:
C. Hands on Training “ Care for ventilated patients”
D. CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation) Training
E. Certificate Course in Geriatric Care:

Table : Courses and Students in Various Educational Institutions of BADAS

Course	Session 2020-21	Discipline	Student Enrolled
	Institute
Diploma	BIRDEM	Dermatology; Anesthesiology;    Endocrinology & Metabolism;    Radiology & Imaging; Dermatology    & Venereology; Diploma in Blood    Serology & Transfusion; Diploma in    Medical Radio Diagnosis and    Laboratory Medicine	79
	Meghnaghat Nursing Institute	Diploma in Nursing	50
Undergraduate	Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital and Research Institute	Diploma in Advanced Cardiac Nursing	40
	Dinajpur Diabetic Association Technical Association	BSc in Nursing Sciences and Midwives	50
	Faridpur Diabetic Association Nursing Institute	BSc in Nursing Sciences and Midwives	50
	Rajshahi Diabetic Association Nursing Institute	BSc in Nursing Sciences and Midwives	170
Graduate	Ibrahim Medical College	MBBS	120
		BDS	35
	Bangladesh University of Health Sciences	BSc	68
		BPH	19
	Faridpur Diabetic Association Medical College	MBBS	100
	North Bengal Medical College	MBBS	70
	BIRDEM Nursing College	BSc in Nursing	50
		Post Basic Course	50
Post Graduate	BIRDEM Academy	MD	145
		MS	55
		MPhil	15
	Bangladesh University of Health Sciences	MS	62
		MPH	132
	Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital and Research Institute	MD	5
		MS	Start soon

Informal Education
Distance Learning Program (DLP) is a project of the Diabetic Association of Bangladesh to run distance learning course with a view to develop manpower in the field of diabetes throughout the country.
The course was introduced in collaboration with the Open University, UK in 2004.The duration of these courses is 6 months (January-June & July-December Session). At present 35th batch is running through online and offline. So far, almost 19995 students have been passed. Besides, BADAS also offers other short courses.
To provide secondary and tertiary health care services, BADAS has one of the largest human resource bases which includes physicians, nurses/ health educators and laboratory technicians.

Table: Skilled Human Resources under BADAS Facilities

Institution	Physician		Nurse		Health Educator Nutritionist		Laboratory
	2019-20	2020-21	2019-20	2020-21	2019-20	2020-21	2019-20	2020-21
BIRDEM	462	473	676	548	11	11	1341	1352
NHN	158	229	285	107	19	28	195	117
ICHRI	157	154	351	338	5	4	27	30
BIHS		139		175		3		75
Non -BIHS Components    (AAs) in HCDP	78	77	88	76	7	9	149	187
Affiliated Associations	712	803	753	781	76	82	837	977
Total	1567	1875	2153	2025	118	137	2549	2738

BUHS: Lecturer- 27, Sr Lecturer – 25, Assistant Professor – 22, Associate Professor – 17, Professor – 25, Admin & supporting staff -42, Laboratory - 9

Ibrahim Medical College:
The eight academic departments of the College namely the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Pathology, Microbiology, Forensic Medicine and Community Medicine have 84 Full time faculty members. They include 09 Professors, 14 Associate Professors, 14 Assistant Professors, 01 Curator and 44 Lecturers. Academic Faculties of Medicine, Surgery, Gyane & Obst and their several sub-specialties consist of 36 Professors, 45 Associate Professors, 32 Assistant Professors, 02 Resident Physicians, 03 Resident Surgeons and 21 Registrars are the Academic staff of Ibrahim Medical College for clinical teaching and are participating in academic program of the college.
The BDS course is also run by experienced faculties. The Departments of SDM, General and Dental Pharmacology, Oral Anatomy with Physiology, Dental Public Health, Periodontology & Oral Pathology, Prosthodontics, Orthodontics, Conservative Dentistry & Endodontic, Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Paediatrics Dentistry have 25 full time teachers. They include 01 Professor, 03 Associate Professor, 06 Assistant Professors and 16 Lecturers. Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry Pathology, Microbio- logy, General Pharmacology, Medicine & Surgery are taught by faculties of respective departments.