8th Year Anniversary

Eight years ago, volunteers from Mid-Main Community Health Centre in Vancouver started their collaboration with the College of Nursing at IUBAT. In February 2004, the Registrar of the Bangladesh Nursing Council (RN Hosne Ara Begum) inaugurated the nursing program as part of a function held at the IUBAT campus with a large number of senior members of the BNC present. This photo from that occasion shows IUBAT Vice-Chancellor, Dr. M. Alimullah Miyan (centre), National Professor Dr. M. R. Khan, as well as Bangladesh Health Project Director, RN Alex Berland. Eight years later we can claim 22 graduates who have been praised by national and international nurses and doctors for their excellent practice!

Upcoming volunteer opportunities

The IUBAT College of Nursing has a few opportunities for visiting faculty in 2012.

June 15 to August 15 – maternal-child nursing (classroom and clinical)

September 5 to October 15 – professional orientation

September 5 to October 15 – medical-surgical nursing (classroom and clinical).

We will post opportunities for 2013 shortly.

If you are unable to travel to Bangladesh, we have some volunteer tasks that can be completed from home using the internet.

For more information please contact us.

On-going collaboration between IUBAT and U Vermont

Each year BScN students from University of Vermont visit IUBAT College of Nursing with their instructor Dr. Rycki Maltby. In this photo students from UVm and IUBAT work together at the Centre for Woman and Child Health, our clinical teaching partner. (In case you are wondering about the winter head gear, January can be chilly even in Bangladesh!)