Professors Fred Bosman and Sam Leinster at PAHS
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.