Publication: Teaching District Concept of BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences: An Inter-disciplinary Community Based Medical Education and Health Service Delivery Model in Rural Nepal
Date
2016
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Publisher
Kathmandu University
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Community based education trains health professional students to deal with the
community health problems. The attitude and skills they gain as planners for
health care provision are applicable in both hospital and community settings. B
P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences has implemented a model of Community
based education which encompasses the health institutions, organisations and the
communities of the sixteen districts in eastern Nepal and refers to this concept
as the ‘Teaching District” concept of B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences. This
paper seeks to describe the concept and its implementation. Almost 20 years have
passed since first initiated; and pending a comprehensive evaluation, this concept
has gathered a great deal of experience to serve as a model for partnership between
academic health sciences institutions with the district health system of Nepal.
KEY WORDS
BPKIHS, community medicine, social accountability of medical schools, teaching
district, undergraduate medical education
Description
Pokharel PK,1 Budhathoki SS,1 Upadhyay MP2
1School of Public Health and Community Medicine
B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal.
2B P Eye Foundation,
Kathmandu, Nepa
Keywords
BPKIHS, community medicine, social accountability of medical schools, teaching district, undergraduate medical education