Context: Adequate knowledge about nutritional status of a community is necessary to have a comprehensive idea about its development process, as under-nutrition is one of the major health problems in developing countries. As an individual’s height and weight can be readily and inexpensively measured, body mass index (BMI) has become a popular heuristic approximation for body fatness in epidemiology and clinical practice. The BMI is the most common surrogate measure of obesity as well as nutritional assessment for individual. For this reasons an attempt has been taken to assess the nutritional status through the body mass index (BMI) among first year students of MBBS and B sc nursing course of government medical education institutes in Dhaka. Material and Methods: This descriptive type of analytic study was conducted in the Anatomy Department of Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka. The study sample was 177 individuals of first year students of MBBS and B.Sc nursing course admitted in the session of 2017-2018 in the Dhaka Medical College & Dhaka Nursing College, Dhaka. Body Mass Index (BMI) was calculated as student’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of the student’s height in meters (kg/m2). The warning sign of poor nutritional health was calculated according to the checklist adapted by the Nutrition Screening Initiative, American Academy of Family Physicians July 2001. With the help of statistical software SPSS-20 comparisons between the two groups were done. Result: The mean (±SD) height (meter), weight (kg) and BMI of groups MBBS and B Sc nursing were 1.63±0.09, 61.65±11.22, 23.11±3.53 and 1.56±0.07, 49.05±9.42, 20.15±3.47 respectively. Good nutritional health status was found 61.80% in MBBS and 53.30% in B Sc nursing groups. Conclusion: The present study showed that the BMI of first year students of MBBS course is higher than first year students of B Sc nursing course. J Dhaka Medical College, Vol. 28, No.1, April, 2019, Page 11-16

Background: Historically, acetabular fracture therapy was generally insufficient, leaving many patients with incapacitating pain, mobility limitations, and joint failure. It's caused by high-velocity injuries and affects young, economically productive people. Proper treatment including optimum surgical care should be offered, especially in our uninformed and fiscally unstable society, to preserve lives and reduce long-term consequences and impairments. This research aims to examine and manage the posterior wall and column of acetabular fracture, focusing on aspects the treating physician may influence. Objectives: To assess the outcome of open reduction and internal fixation of posterior wall and column fracture of acetabulum which may help the orthopaedic surgeons to take appropriate measures as needed. Materials and Methods: 15 posterior acetabular fracture patients were studied. Cases were clinically and radiologically diagnosed in NITOR's emergency or outpatient departments (NITOR). All patients had open reduction and internal fixation by Kocher-Langenback technique. 1 hour 55 minutes was average operating time 21-day average hospital stay. Per- and post-op were uneventful. Patients were released with follow-up appointments. Patients were clinically and radiologically examined at each follow-up. Results: Most injuries were from RTAs (86.66 percent ). Most patients had left acetabular injuries (66.66 percent). Posterior wall acetabular fractures were more common (53.33%) than posterior column and wall fractures (33.33 percent). Most patients had surgery within 2 weeks after injury (60 percent ). 4 (26.66%) and 6 (40%) patients had good clinical and radiological outcomes following surgery. Most patients' clinical (46.66%) and radiological outcomes were favorable (53.33 percent). About 20% of patients were clinically and radiologically fair. 6.6% of patients had poor physical result, while none had poor radiological outcome. 20-40-year-olds had a largely ..........