Alongside completing his medical degree in Chattogram, Chowdhury is building EVERLEARN, an education technology startup whose first major product, prepMED, is an app that aims to rethink how Bangladeshi students prepare for medical admission.

The idea grew from his own personal experience.

Preparing for medical school showed him how opportunities often depended less on ability than on where a student lived, how much their family could afford, or whether they had access to the right mentors. It also exposed another problem: students were studying for months without understanding where they were falling behind.

“I realised students spend thousands of hours studying without actually knowing their weak areas,” he says.

That observation shaped his interest in ed-tech. Instead of creating another repository of lectures, Chowdhury wanted to build tools that could help students identify weaknesses, measure progress and make better decisions about how they study.

Medicine introduced him to those problems. When he founded EVERLEARN in 2025, the goal was modest: to develop digital tools to help students navigate competitive academic journeys. Conversations with learners soon broadened that vision.

Students were asking for more than study materials. They needed mentors, communities, feedback, scholarships and opportunities that could not be delivered through recorded classes alone.

The company now describes itself as building an “academic operating system”, a platform that combines technology, mentorship, physical learning resources and career support in one ecosystem.

“What excites me most is knowing that every feature we build has the potential to remove barriers for students,” Chowdhury says.

Those barriers are particularly visible in Bangladesh’s medical admission ecosystem.

According to Chowdhury, three problems stand out: affordability, accessibility and the lack of personalised guidance. Traditional coaching packages can cost between Tk19,000 and Tk25,000, placing quality preparation beyond the reach of many families. The country’s leading coaching centres remain concentrated in cities such as Dhaka and Chattogram, leaving rural students with fewer options. Even students who manage to enrol often prepare without a clear understanding of where they are making mistakes.

He believes the system has remained largely unchanged because families have long associated expensive coaching with success.

“Without a strong technological alternative, this system remained largely unchallenged,” he says.

That thinking led to prepMED.

The platform began with a simple question: what if a student’s smartphone could function as a complete medical admission coaching centre?

For Chowdhury, the answer was never about replacing teachers. It was about removing barriers that prevented capable students from accessing quality guidance.

He recalls meeting talented students who abandoned their dream of studying medicine because they could not afford coaching or relocate to a major city. Another group stayed on his mind: students preparing for medical admission for a second time. Many had already exhausted their family’s savings during their first attempt and struggled to find affordable support while trying again.

prepMED was built with those students in mind.

Instead of following a one-size-fits-all model, the platform focuses on personalised learning. It offers more than 55,000 verified questions, chapter-wise analytics, AI-assisted revision planning and nationwide rankings to help students understand where they stand and what needs improvement.

The company is also experimenting with what it calls a “phygital” approach, combining digital tools with physical learning materials such as home-delivered OMR sheets.

Behind the platform is an eight-member team working across technology, academic content, mentorship and student support. Building the question bank required months of collaboration with medical students and mentors from institutions including Dhaka Medical College, Chittagong Medical College, Sir Salimullah Medical College and Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College.

One conversation with a subscriber continues to stand out.

The student, a second-time medical admission candidate from Dhaka, described spending hours each day commuting to coaching classes. What he needed was not more lectures but a flexible system that allowed him to practise specific topics and track his progress.

“We didn’t build prepMED simply to digitise coaching,” Chowdhury says. “We built it to give students more control over their preparation.”

Changing public perception has proved harder than developing the technology itself. Parents and students have trusted conventional coaching centres for decades, and earning that trust requires consistent results as much as innovation.

Looking ahead, Chowdhury hopes EVERLEARN will expand beyond medical admission into SSC, HSC, university admissions and career development. He also plans to continue practising medicine, seeing healthcare and education as two fields connected by the same purpose: improving people’s lives through access and opportunity.

His advice to aspiring medical students reflects the philosophy behind both careers.

“Never allow your current circumstances to define your future,” he says. “Success comes from showing up every day, learning from mistakes and continuing even when progress feels slow.”