Prof. Dr. Yogendra Man Shakya Head of Department Department of Medical Education

 

Department of Medical Education (DME) is established from 2024 August 28 (2081-05-12 BC) is under the Dean’s office, Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj ,Tribhuvan University, committed to improve the health of the country through ensuring quality health professions education by educating teachers in Nepal. Although it was officially upgraded to this form from 2009 (2066 BS) as National Centre for Health Professions Education (NCHPE), was independent national organization.

 It has long history of continued and consistent efforts to support its activities.

An ‘Education Support Unit was established in Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 1986 to impart teacher’s training to its faculty members in innovations in medical education. It was later renamed as Education Support Center and it was realized that it should form an integral and permanent part of the Institute of Medicine with functional autonomy. It was proposed that the center should mainly work in areas of:

1. curricula design, implementation, evaluation and revision.

2. enhancing teacher’s competency and performance.

3. conducting Continue Medical Education(CME) for all health personnel.

4. conducting educational research.

5. providing consultancy related to quality education and service.

With subsequent development, the Education Support Center was developed into the Medical Education Department (MED) in 1990 and it was moved to the MoHeGo Building.

In order to address growing concern for quality in terms of the relevance of health professions education to the health care needs of people of Nepal, a need was felt to develop a “National Center for Health Professions Education (NCHPE)” in this country. The national consultative meeting held with the support of WHO in 2009 approved for upgrading the existing Medical Education Department into “National Center for Health Professions Education (NCHPE)”.

The DME has now its own full-time  administrative staff Ms. Devi Shrestha, Mr. Durga Prasad Timilsina, Mr. Pradip Kumar Shrestha, Ms. Rita Poudel and 2 academic faculties Associate professor Tumla Shrestha and Lecturer Durga Pahadi in department of medical education and 20 other resource faculties.

The DME is equipped with seminar hall, library room, staff rooms, computer rooms and administrative rooms on the first floor of MoHeGo Building. It has been carrying out regular Teacher Training Workshops, Curriculum development and Continuing education for the health professions teachers from both IOM and other health manpower development institutions of Nepal. The DME is also coordinating the activities of ‘Skills lab’ in Maharajgunj Medical Campus and in 2011, The Health Learning Material Center has been merged into NCHPE. Further, it has been promoting international cooperation in medical education through coordinating and systematizing the Elective Programme for Foreign Medical Students at the IOM.