Assessment of Post Graduate Medical Students in Nepal: Is it time to introspect?

Post graduate medical education was started in Nepal in 1982 in General Practice and in Ophthalmology in 1987 by Institute of Medicine (IOM), Tribhuvan University (TU). Kathmandu University (KU) started its first postgraduate program in Orthopaedics in 1999. BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS) and National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS) started in 1999 and in 2003 respectively. Before NAMS, Post Graduate Medical Education Co-ordination (PGMECC) was responsible for post graduate programme.1 Nepal Medical Council (NMC) being regulatory body for both undergraduate and post graduate medical education, regulates medical program in Nepal. However, NMC is so far not able to provide adequate attention in assessment system of post graduate medical students. With changing trends of education system as well as expanded area of medical and surgical technologies, conventional techniques of assessing post graduate students need to be revised and reconsidered.