Patan Academy of Health Sciences

Immunology CME at PAHS

shitalbhandary — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:49:31 +0000

PAHS organized a two-day Continuous Medical Education (CME) course entitled “Comprehensive Review Course on Immunology” at Patan Hospital on August 7 -8, 2008. Thirty-seven participants from various Nepalese medical institutions participated in this course and they recapitulated their immunology knowledge in the process. The course director was Prof. David A. Hafler of Harvard Medical School. He was assisted by Prof. Janet Hafler of TUFTS University and Jason P. Hafler, PhD Fellow at Cambridge University, England. Mr. Dilip Rai, PAHS Faculty and Member of Faculty Development Committee, was the coordinator for this CME workshop. PAHS is trying to organize similar CME and workshops regularly in the future. Please visit this section regularly for the upcoming events at PAHS.

Faculty from Philippines visited PAHS

shitalbhandary — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:49:29 +0000

Dean, Prof. Fortunato L. Cristobal and Dean of Community Affairs, Dr. Afdal Kunting of Zamboanga Medical School Foundation visited PAHS from August 3 - 8, 2008. PAHS Community Health Science Department and Basic Medical Science Department interacted with them regarding community based and community orientated medical education. Prof. Cristobal and Dr. Kunting also gave a comprehensive demonstration of the Problem Based Learning practiced in their school. They also visited proposed PAHS community rotation sites. Prof. Cristobal gave an excellent Grand Round presentation at Patan Hospital showing the success of Community Based Medical Education that has 50% teaching-learning in the community and retention of more than 90% of their graduates to serve in the rural and underprivileged community of the Zamboanga Peninsula Region, Region IX, Mindanao, Philippines.

PAHS Vice Chancellor Appointed

shitalbhandary — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:22:48 +0000

Dr Arjun Karki, MD is appointed as the first Vice Chancellor of the Patan Academy of Health Sciences (PAHS) by the Government of Nepal. Dr Karki worked as the member-secretary of the Medical School Steering Committee (MSSC) from Nov 13, 2003 and PAHS Project coordinator from February 9, 2007. He is also the Chief of the Medicine Department of the Patan Hospital (PH). PAHS and PH would like to congratulate him and wish him a very successful tenure as the first VC of PAHS. We are sure that PAHS would become the pioneer health science university at national, regional and international levels under his leadership.

Basic Immunology Course at Patan Hospital

tully — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:29:06 +0000

PAHS will host a two-day course in Basic Immunology for Continuing Medical Education. We invite faculty of all medical colleges throughout Nepal to attend. The course will be held on 7 and 8 August. Please download this Registration Form, complete it, and email it to info@pahs.edu.np to register.

Professors Fred Bosman and Sam Leinster at PAHS

shitalbhandary — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:25:58 +0000

Two distinguished PAHS International Advisory Members: Professor Fred Bosman, Chairman of the Institute of Pathology at University of Lausanne, Switzerland and Professor Sam Leinster, Dean of School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice at University of East Anglia, UK visited PAHS from June 28 - July 3 and July 1 - 4 respectively. PAHS Basic Science faculty were able to fine-tune the pre-clinical science curriculum with greater depth and understanding interacting with them.

Prof. Bosman worked closely with the Pathology group to make their curriculum coherent and logical for each of the proposed organ-system blocks in the pre-clinical phase of the MBBS program. Prof. Bosman demonstrated the importance and application of case-based teachings in the MBBS course whereas Prof. Leinster worked with the basic science group and helped to re-formulate the learning objectives/outcomes to make them measurable. Prof. Leinster also worked with the clinical science group, student assessment committee, medical education unit, clinical and communication skills group and community health science group. The clinical science group were able to get the clinical science curriculum model and teaching-learning methods tips from his whereas Student Assessment Committee was able to map the formative and summative assessments for the clinical phase of the MBBS program. A fruitful discussion on integration of clinical exposure in the pre-clinical science course along with the teaching clinical and communication skills in the first two and half years of the MBBS program was also held during his visit. He also interacted with the community health science group and gave his valuable comments and suggestions regarding community health science curriculum. During his visit, he mainly focused on the need of Nepal and PAHS.

Profs. Sam Leinster and Fred Bosman also gave presentations to the Nepal Medical Council members regarding Medical School Accreditation System at UK and Switzerland/Netherlands respectively on the evening of July 2, 2008. They answered all the queries from the participants with great interest and enthusiasm.

Prof. Marit Bakke at PAHS

shitalbhandary — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:59:29 +0000

Prof. Marit Bakke, Professor Emeritus from the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen in Norway, visited PAHS from June 12 - 14 and June 22 - 24. She met with the Community Health Science group and they were able to develop the Community Based Learning and Education (CBLE) curriculum for the pre-medical, pre-clinical and clinical phase of the undergraduate medical program or MBBS. The group decided on the type, kind and duration of the community postings along with its terminal objectives for the pre-medical block. The group also finalized the curricular contents and its outcomes for the same block. Extensive discussion on the community health science curriculum and residential community postings in the pre-clinical and clinical phase of the MBBS program was done based on the CBLE document prepared by Dr. Kedar Baral, coordinator of the Community Health Science course at PAHS. The group also integrated its teaching-learning with the proposed weekly Problem Based Learning (PBL) cases during the pre-clinical phase.

New Basic Science Faculty at PAHS

shitalbhandary — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:47:08 +0000

Three more pre-clinical faculty members have joined PAHS from May, 2008. Ms. Ira Shrestha has joined the Department of Physiology whereas Ms. Mili Joshi and Ms. Anupa KC have joined the Department of Pharmacology. PAHS would like to welcome them in the PAHS family and would also like to acknowledge their prior involvement in its curriculum development and other academic activities.

Prof. Suskind visit PAHS

shitalbhandary — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:34:02 +0000

Prof. Dr. Robert Suskind, founding dean of the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas, USA, visited PAHS from April 30 - May 2, 2008. He had extensive and series of meetings with PAHS pre-clinical and clinical faculty about the Clinical Presentation Curriculum. He also gave Grand Round talk about Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, a new medical school at Texas Tech Health University, El Paso and their innovative Clinical Presentation Curriculum structure with the Patan Hospital medical personnel and PAHS faculty. PAHS would like to extend its deep gratitude to Prof. Suskind for this very important visit which enhanced the knowledge and understanding of PAHS faculty regarding Clinical Presentation Curriculum.

PAHS Faculty at PSG FRI 2008

shitalbhandary — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:11:22 +0000

Mr. Shital Bhandary, PAHS Founding Faculty and Member of the Medical Education Unit, has successfully completed the first on-site course on his FAIMER fellowship from 16-21 April, 2008 at PSG Institute, Coimbatore, India. He also visited Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi after the course and gathered relevant information regarding short and long term training possibilities for PAHS faculty in these esteemed institutions.

Visitor to PAHS

shitalbhandary — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:57:26 +0000

G. Caleb Alexander, M.D., M.S. a Robert Wood Johnson Faculty Scholar of the Department of Medicine at The University of Chicago visited PAHS for a week in the month of April, 2008. He shared his expertise on Health Services and Pharmaceutical Research, Clinical Medical Ethics, Medical Publishing and Survey Research Methodology with PAHS faculty. PAHS would like to extend its gratitude to Dr. Alexander and look forward to welcome him again in the near future.