Medical education and training in Nepal: SWOT analysis

Medical education and training in Nepal: SWOT analysis.

OBJECTIVE To analyse the impact of the medical colleges that have been set up within the last two decades by production of the doctors and the effect on the health of the people. MATERIALS AND METHODS SWOT (strength, weakness, opportunities and threats) analysis of medical education in Nepal has been done by reviewing medical manpower produced by the different institutions in the undergraduat...

Development of medical education in Nepal.

The first institution for training health workers started 75 years ago. Further development of teaching/learning institutions, mainly governmental started from the middle of the 20th Century. It was however with the setting up of the Institute of Medicine (IoM) under TU that training programmes for different grades of health manpower were started. The last two decades has seen an explosion of i...

Humanities in medical training and education.

This paper explores how current developments within medical humanities might provide a way to both understand and address the origin of recent events that have left the profession branded as arrogant, out of touch and misguided (2). The arts provide a powerful medium to improve the understanding of the experience of illness. Furthermore the understanding obtained is qualitatively different from...

Changing scenario of postgraduate medical education in Nepal.

Undergraduate medical education in Nepal: one size fits all?

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