Students of the medical college often participate in debate and quiz competitions. A team participated in the BUP Intervarsity English Debate Competition 2022. A student of this college was announced as the best speaker in BUTEX DC National Debate Fest 2022. Debate and Quiz Society of SSMC, AIUB Department of Public Health and USAID fellows worked closely to arrange the first Global Health Festival in 2014. That year, Debate and Quiz Society also organized the 'IFIC Bank-DQS SSMC Carnival Captive 2014', the event had sections of liberation war olympiad, inter-university debate and quiz competitions, medical spelling competition (medispell) and ideation competition workshop on various topics.
