Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College was inaugurated on 6th May, 2006. It is the 14th Government Medical College in Bangladesh. This medical college is situated in the ‘Zone of Medical Institution’ at Sher-E-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka and is surrounded by NICVD, NIO, NIKDU, NITOR, NIMH and ICH.
The first batch of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College has been started on the session of 2005-2006 with 100 students who were migrated from different medical colleges. This institution is now one of the top medical college in Bangladesh in respect of the result of Professional Examination held under Dhaka University. A 375 bed Shaheed Suhrawardy Hospital is attached with this medical college as teaching hospital which will be converted into 500 bed hospital very soon.
Two hostel buildings have been built behind the hospital building. A new eight storied medical college building is under construction for the increased demand of the lectures, tutorial and practical rooms as well as teachers accomodations. The decorated red coloured building construction work will be finished very soon and the whole medical college campus will be shifted from the old building to new one.