Mohammed Fazle Rabbee - Life and Education

Life and Education

Rabbee was born on September 21, 1932, in Pabna District, Bangladesh. Since Mohammed Fazle Rabbee was a child, he had been an exceptional student. In 1948, he passed matriculation from Pabna Zila School and I.Sc from Dhaka College in 1950. Afterwards, Rabbee went to Dhaka Medical College and finished his MBBS in 1955. He received a gold medal for achieving highest marks on the examination in all of Pakistan. At Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, he became an assistant surgeon on December 15, 1956.

Mohammed Fazle Rabbee and Dr. Jahan Ara Rabbee were married on January 8, 1957. Jahan Ara Rabbee had been a student attending Dhaka Medical College at the time. They raised four children, but the youngest died soon after his birth.

Rabbee became Registrar of Medicine in 1959 at Dhaka Medical College. In March, 1960, he traveled to England to earn higher education, where he earned an MRCP in cardiology and another one in internal medicine. Rabbee received these two post-graduate degrees in record time by 1962. In lieu of obtaining his MRCP from London, he worked at the Hammersmith Hospital. Upon graduation, he worked at Middlesex Hospital with Sir Francis Avery Jones, an eminent British gastroenterologist. After Rabbee finished his studies, he returned to Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) on January 1, 1963, where he became an associate professor of medicine at the Dhaka Medical College. He was soon promoted as Professor of Medicine and Cardiology in 1968 and was the youngest MRCP staff member to achieve this promotion in Dhaka Medical College at the age of 36.