The college is affiliated to a large hospital which is the central provider for advanced health care in the northern part of Bangladesh.

After the separation of East Bengal from India in 1947 the people of Rajshahi region were deprived of medical education and healthcare facilities.

The three storied 530 bed hospital was built in 1965 which included medicine, surgery and gynaecology-obstetrics Department.

Many doctors and students of this college participated in independence war of Bangladesh in 1971.

To the east of this building, a magnificent, modern, sophisticated auditorium was built in 1995 which is air-conditioned and contains 1000 seats.

In the college library, there are approximately 19500 books including both new and old editions and 60 medical journals of both home and abroad.

Medical education unit of library provides with all modern facilities with internet browsing.

Shahid Jamil Akhtar Raton hostel is for male and another one for female internee doctors.

[1] A canteen was opened firstly beside the hospital kitchen which was shifted to the north side of the pathology department in a tin shed room in 1963.

Henceforth, in 1982 a brick-built one storied building was built instead of tin shed room.

In 2014 cardiology ward was extended and shifted to newly built four storied building.

OCC centre was opened in this hospital in 2002 to give medical and legal help to the oppressed women.

[4] Around 11:00 p.m., he unintentionally collided with a female intern doctor named Merry Priyanka.

[4][7] Priyanka then called up her fellow intern doctor Mirza Kamal Hossen.

[8] Students of University of Rajshahi held protests and demanded arrest and exemplary punishment for the intern doctors involved in the assault.