Preface
Curriculum is a formal plan of educational experiences and activities offered to a learner under the
guidance of an educational institution. Curriculum in fact is an organised plan of course outlines,
along with the objectives and learning experiences to be used for achievement of these activities.
With increasing public expectations about the health care services, specially in the emergency &
pandemic situation like COVID 19 the quality of care itself is under scrutiny all over the world.
Therefore a positive change is needed in the role of Medical Technologists. The role of teachers
and students in teaching and learning to bring a positive changes in allied health professionals
education also needs to be reviewed and further developed to make it more competency based.
This revised Health Technology (HT) competency based curriculum has been developed and
scientifically designed, making it responsive to the needs of the learners and focussed towards the
need of the stakeholders and country. The present HT curriculum with its assessment method is
expected to effectively judge competencies acquired with those which are required to cater the
health needs of our people. It is gratifying to note that all concerned in the promotion of allied
health science in the country have involved themselves in the planning and formulation of this
competency based & community oriented need-based curriculum.
More emphasis has been given on ethics, communication skills, behavioural science, basic
computer science, communicative English, primary health care, climate change, environment and
sanitation. Total duration of the curriculum has been increased from 3 years to 4years. List of
competencies have been identified to acquire those by the provision of logbook based hands on
training in this curriculum. Though the curriculum is not the sole determinants of the outcome, yet
then it is very important as it guides the faculty members in preparing their instruction, tells the
students where to go, what to do and what knowledge, skills and attitude they are expected to
develop.
In conclusion, I would like to state that, the curriculum planning process should be continuous,
dynamic and never-ending. If it is to serve best, the needs of the individual students, educational
institutions and the expectations of people community to whom we are ultimately accountable, are
required to be evaluated and given due attention.
I congratulate all who were involved in designing and developing the competency based
curriculum, particularly the Director (Research, Publication, Curriculum Development), ADG
(ME) & Directors of DGME, Secretary, SMFB, members of the working group and the involved
faculty members of CME. My special thanks to National Professor Brig (Rtd) Abdul Malik,
President, National Heart Foundation Hospital & Research Institute for all sorts of support. My
special thanks to all others who were involved in the development of this curriculum.
Prof AKM Amirul Morshed
Director General
Directorate General of Medical Education (DGME)
Mohakhali, Dhaka
The State Medical Faculty of Bangladesh
203, Shaheed Syed Nazrul Islam Swarani
Bijoynagar, Dhaka -1000
September 2022
