Team Bangladesh shines at IMDO 2022

The International Medicine and Disease Olympiad (IMDO) is a global medical and disease knowledge/problem solving competition for high school students. The IMDO recognises the best high school problem solvers, who are interested in medicine, in order to boost their fascination towards the field.

It assesses both fundamental medical comprehension of human biology and disease, as well as the competitors problem-solving ability, It tests the participants' knowledge in medicine-related domains of biology, including molecular and cell biology, human physiology, and human diseases.

In order to participate in the competition, students from all over the world participated in the United States Medicine and Disease Olympiad (USMDO), which was organised in late June of this year.

Following this two-hour long exam, teams from different countries were formed based on their scores. After completing USMDO, seven Bangladeshi students got the chance to participate in IMDO. Out of them, six students won medals. This is the highest number of medals won by Bangladesh in this Olympiad.

I am thankful to our seniors, for organising a preparation webinar and providing us resources on the basis of IMDO structure.

Sanjida Nusrat Ananna, an A-level candidate from Dhaka, won a gold medal by scoring 118 out of 150. The second highest scorer was Md Shafin Jubayer, from Adamjee Cantonment College. The other two silver medal winners were Naimul Islam and Talha Zubair, from Notre Dame College. Minhaz Uddin Sayeed, from Comilla Government College, and Jubayer Ahmed, an A-level examinee from Chittagong, bagged two bronze medals.

"I am overwhelmed by the performance of our group. Winning the gold medal is like a dream come true. I am thankful to our seniors, for organising a preparation webinar and providing us resources on the basis of IMDO structure. We are also grateful to our mentor Dr Promit Paul, from Mymensingh Medical College, for guiding us throughout the USMLE structured questions," said Ananna.