Over the years India’s contribution to the development of human resources in Nepal has been one of the major aspects of India-Nepal cooperation.
Scholarships/seats are provided for a wide spectrum of studies ranging from engineering, medicine, agriculture, pharmacology, veterinary sciences, computer application, business administration, music and fine arts, etc.
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PAHS Patan
The Patan Academy of Health Sciences is an autonomous, not-for-profit public institution of higher education which, when in full operation, will be self-sustaining.
By providing for the needs of Nepal’s rural poor, PAHS will address a root cause of the conflict that devastated Nepal for the last decade. Reducing the divide between the urban and rural populations will provide a basis for lasting peace in Nepal.
Currently, most medical schools in Nepal are for-profit, and medical education is very traditional. Medical schools do not adequately emphasize the health care challenges of Nepal, nor provide students with a feeling of social responsibility to improve health care for disadvantaged populations. In contrast, PAHS will employ highly innovative strategies in several areas to encourage its graduates to work to improve the health status of the rural poor.
BPKIHS Dharan
B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS) was established on January 18, 1993 and subsequently upgraded as an Autonomous Health Sciences University on October 28, 1998 with a mandate to work towards developing socially responsible and competent health work force, providing health care and engaging in health research. The Institute is located in Eastern Nepal & it has extended its continued health services through teaching district concept to Primary Health Care Centers, District Hospitals and Zonal Hosptals in six districts of the region.
Ministry of Education
The Ministry of Education (MOE) was established in 1951, was renamed as the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) in 2002. It was again renamed as Ministry of Education with the decision of Cabinet in 15 Bhadra 2065 BS. The MoE as the apex body of all educational organizations is responsible for overall development of education in the country. This Ministry is responsible for formulating educational policies and plans and managing and implementing them across the country through the institutions under it.
Institute of Medicine
The undergraduate medical programme, MBBS, started in 1978 and since then has admitted 626 students 19 batches of which 386 have graduate and are providing health care in about fifty districts of Nepal.
The programme admits 43 Nepalese students and foreigners as pass the criteria met by IOM. Students each academic year into four and a half-year's course of study divided into three phases; in addition, it has a year of compulsory rotating internship, thus totaling the programme of five and a half years duration.
Medical education is community orientated, based on integrated and problem based learning. The curriculum thus reflects innovation in undergraduate medical education. Early exposure of the learners to community medicine and beside medical science and medical ethics clinical teaching not only helps learners to make them aware of the importance of the course of study, but also enables them to become motivated towards self-learning. Placement in the community surrounding that are located in the mountain, the hills and the plains of Nepal gives ample opportunities to learners to be accustomed to the reality that exists in the community and prevents them from the reality shock, on being posted to the real-life situation after graduation.
