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Publication Impact of Community Diagnosis Programme on Undergraduate Students at BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences(Kathmandu University, 2019) Singh, A; Subedi, K; Shrestha, A; Bhagat, T; Pyakurel, P; Agrawal, SKABSTRACT Background Community Diagnosis Programme (CDP) aims to demonstrate the importance of teamwork in health care to understand the comprehensive health needs of the rural people and conceive about the research. Objective To assess the impact of community diagnosis program on undergraduate students of BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), Dharan, Nepal. Method A cross sectional study with mixed design (quantitative and qualitative) was conducted among the undergraduate students of batch 2017 participating in community diagnosis programme of BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal. Eight questions assessed the students’ perceptions regarding their abilities about community diagnosis program using six point Likert Scale and four open ended questions were used to know the students’ experience and perception of community diagnosis programme. Result Overall mean ± SD score for pre-exposure response was 30.47 ± 6.18 and for the post- exposure response was 40.49 ± 5.16. The overall mean ± SD score of the students categorized according to streams showed similar results in both pre-exposure response and post-exposure responses. Qualitative analysis revealed the themes like “Research, a reflection of community and new method of learning to medical students”; “method of developing confidence and good communication skills”, “learning to work as a team” and “exposure to rural area”; “Research an adjunct to medical profession”. Conclusion Community diagnosis programme had a positive impact on the students about basic survey process, learnt to communicate with rural people, understood the type of data and were willing to participate in similar projects in future. Qualitative analysis showed most of the students had positive experience with some negative experience of community diagnosis programme. KEY WORDS BPKIHS, Community Diagnosis Programme, Undergraduate StudentsPublication Paediatric Stroke: A Rare Presentation of Iron Deficiency Anemia in a Four Year Old Child(Kathmandu University, 2016) Subedi, K; Koirala, S; Basnet, R; Poudel, AABSTRACT Paediatric stroke is an uncommon syndrome with even lesser annual incidence rates of arterial ischemic stroke in infants and children. In children the diagnosis of stroke is frequently delayed or missed. This is due to subtle and nonspecific clinical presentations, a complicated differential diagnosis and a lack of awareness by physicians and also delay in the seeking of medical attention as in our case. We report you a rare case of a four year old child from remote Nepal who presented to our Out Patient Department after a long gap of around four months after the sudden onset of loss of consciousness and decreased movement of right limbs who after detailed history examination and lab investigations and imaging revealed ischemic stroke due to iron deficiency anemia. KEY WORDS Anemia, iron deficiency, pediatric strokePublication Pompe Disease: Cyanosed Hypotonic Infant with Normal Respiratory Rate(Kathmandu University, 2015) Koirala, S; Poudel, A; Basnet, R; Subedi, KABSTRACT Infantile hypotonia or floppy infant is a diagnostic challenge when it presents with other presenting complaints such as fever, cough or diarrhea. Many times the hypotonia goes unnoticed when other symptom covers the hypotonia and child continues to receive the treatment for other symptoms. We report a rare case from Nepal of infantile Pompe disease who presented with the history of fever and cough in the recent earthquake disaster camp at remote part of Sindhupalchowk, Nepal. He was being treated as a case of pneumonia. Pompe disease can be diagnosed clinically by taking detailed history and correlating the clinical findings during the presentation with other symptoms. In our case the normal respiratory rate, reduced Spo2 and presence of crackles dominated the hypotonia and was mistreated as pneumonia. High index of suspicion is necessary in diagnosing Pompe disease. KEY WORDS Developmental delay, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, hypotonia, normal respiratory rate, pompe disease