Purpose:Between 1996-2000 a concept of Medical Physics started in Bangladesh offering 5-6 seminars/workshops in cooperation with Task Group 16 "Medical Physics in Developing Countries" of the German Society for Medical Physics(DGMP),containing theoretical courses and practical training in hospitals.The aim was to gain public awareness and to motivate physicist to become medical physicist(MP).As a consequence,the Dept.of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering(MPBME)was found in Gono Bishwabidyalay in 2000 proposing a two years M.Sc course(120 credits); and in 2005,a 4 years BSc(Hons)(192 credits)course started in MPBME.The syllabus of these courses based on the documents of the DGMP,AAPM and IAEA.The main concern of this department has always been to produce high quality medical physicists and biomedical engineers,especially those ones who will later work in radiation oncology,medical imaging and nuclear medicine and in biomedical fields.The other universities that offer Medical Physics courses are Dhaka University(the Dept.of Biomedical Physics and Technology,since 2014),and Khwaja Yunus Ali University(the Dept.of Medical Physics,since 2014).The total credits of those departments are 32 and 48 credits respectively.Methods:Gono University cooperates intensively with the National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital(NICRH),the United Hospital and also collaborates with Indian hospitals(the Saroj Gupta Cancer Center and Research institute,Thakurpukur,Kolkata,the North Bengal Oncology center,Siliguri)and with the Germanys universities(Anhalt University of Applied Sciences,the German Cancer Research Center,the University of Heidelberg,Mannheim Medical Center of the University of Heidelberg).In the years 2003-2006,nineteen skilled manpower were built under the DAAD scholarship of Germany.In that period we also received important equipment such as a dosimetry system for tele-radiotherapy and brachytherapy,water phantom,Plexiglas phantom,a treatment planning system,standard books and research papers.This collaboration was extended in 2014 for another 4 years from 2014-2017,in those years 40 medical physics skilled manpower will be developed.In addition,there are projects on medical physics to improve the quality of teaching and learning methods as well as a set up of labs(TPS,IT).Presently the total number of students in the MPBME department is 220(156 Male,64 Female).The students who have already passed their exams are working in most of the public and private RT hospitals and institutes in Bangladesh.Results:The experiment to establish the MPBME in Gono University is a success story.The other universities should follow their example to build up necessary manpower.There are yet problems of medical physics job positions in Bangladesh.Till now there are no MP posts and recruitment rules in public hospitals.Therefore the creation of positions for medical physicists in public hospitals is an urgent issue of the country.The number of private hospitals is increasing which is good news for all medical physicists.For a continuous development of medical physics,the Bangladesh Medical Physics Society(BMPS)was formed in 2009 and presently has got 270 members.The BMPS regularly organizes national and international conferences,seminars,workshops and also published an e-newsletter at the IDMP on 7th November,every year.Conclusion:The population of Bangladesh is estimated about 160 million living on an area of 143,998 km2.The number of cancer patients equals 2000 out of 1,000,000 inhabitants per year.According to the WHO,for such number of patients Bangladesh needs:160 radiotherapy centers,320 linear accelerators and 700 medical physicists.The training program and the accreditation program for MP could be started with the help of the IOMP and the IAEA.In the meantime,the BMPS is involved in all IAEA,AFOMP and IOMP programs.Hopefully,our department will be able to produce 200 MPs in near future.Other universities have also started MP courses.