Introduction

Kathmandu University first granted affiliation to private medical colleges in Nepal, however School of Medical Sciences launched its own constituent MBBS program in August 2001. With annually intake of students number 45 which is increased to 60 from 2007 onwards. The school has infrastructure and physical facilities at two locations: basic science building with all the required facilities is situated at a hilltop at Chaukot in the Panauti area and the main teaching hospital is situated at Dhulikhel, within a distance of 3 km easily accessible by a permanent road. Both are easily accessible with the main university site. Basic science department has 7 various departments with the required number of laboratories, lecture halls including PBL class rooms, audio visual facilities (media tech.), library with 24 hour Internet facility.

The university hospital is situated at Dhulikhel and affiliated teaching hospitals include: B&B Hospital Lalitpur and Scheer Memorial Hospital Banepa. Class rooms, library facilities are available separately at all sites. There are a total of 14 various clinical departments as required by the Norms. For community training and field visit there are separate sites under Dhulikhel Hospital at Kavre, Sinduphalchowk, Dhading, Lalitpur districts.

Compulsory hostel facilities students and recreation facilities are available at main university site.

The school also started the postgraduate program in medical sciences since September 1999. They are MS Orthopedics (1999) at B&B Hospital, Lalitpur, MCh Neurosurgery (2000) at Bir Hospital, Kathmandu and MD pathology and MSc. Microbiology (2000) at Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara. Currently PG programs are running at B&B Hospital (MS Orthopaedics), Manipal College of Medical Sciences [MD/MS in Clinical and Basic sciences/M.Sc.(Medical)],College of Medical Sciences, Bharatpur [MD/MS in Clinical and Basic sciences/M.Sc.(Medical)],Nepalgunj Medical College, Chisapani, Banke[MD/MS in Clinical and Basic sciences/M.Sc.(Medical)] and Kathmandu Medical College and Nepal Medical College.

In view of the shortage of the specialist medical manpower in the country as a whole and particularly in basic medical sciences, Kathmandu University has started postgraduate medical and dental programs leading to MD/MS and MDS in association with Manipal Education and Medical Group of India (Bangalore, Mangalore and Manipal) from February 2003.

The school started 4 yrs. B.Sc. Human Biology Program in association with School of Science, from year 2005 August.

Certificate level programs in General Medicine, Nursing, Laboratory Technology, Ophthalmology and Physiotherapy are offered under Dhulikhel Medical Institute. Likewise, B.Sc Nursing program was started on 2004 and BPT program will be started in near future.

For more information on each programme please click on the respective course titles.