Patan Academy Of Health Sciences: A Glory For Life

Situated at the city of Patan, near  Kathmandu, lead by Dr.Rajesh Nath Gongal, the vice Chancellor , Patan Academy of Health Sciences is a government recognized school for the study of medicine. It has state of the art infrastructure and a faculty that strives to achieve excellence in the field of Rural Health Development in Nepal.

It runs on the charter proposed by the constitution and has its own Article named as Patan Academy of Health Sciences Act.

The mission and goal of Patan Academy of Health Sciences is to train healthcare professionals who:

1. Believe in compassion, love and healing
2. Communicate well with patients and families to gain their belief
3. Aspire for a career in life long learning
4. Are willing to dedicate themselves to building and developing advanced healthcare services in Nepal and especially its rural areas.
5. Can undertake research in public health, medicine and biomedicine
6. Provide deserving opportunities to underprivileged meritorious medical aspirants.

Eligibility for admission to Patan Academy of Health Sciences:

The following conditions and criterion must be met by the willing candidate for acceptance into Patan Academy of Health Sciences for the MBBS degree. These standards have been set following the strict guidelines of  the Kathmandu University:

1. The candidate must have completed their 17 years of age.
2. They must have passed their 10+2 standard or Intermediate of Science (I.Sc) with English, Biology, Physics and Chemistry and their major subjects and must not have less than 50% marks in the average aggregate calculated on the basis of these major subjects.

OR

Have completed a bachelor’s degree in any of the subjects: Physics, Chemistry or Biology (B.Sc) from a recognised University, and has studied one other science subject till the ancillary level , with not less than a 50% aggregate and meets the above condition and aggregate requirements of the 10+2 standard.

• Resident Nepali students have to take the KUMET/KUSMS exam, which is considered to be the determinant of merit for admission to this college followed by an interview at PAHS which is self financed. Students who are applying from foreign countries and Non Resident Nepali students will have to forward their application to the college for perusal and acceptance of their admission into Patan Academy of Health Sciences. Such documents will be needed to get authorized from the Ministry of External Affairs of the student’s resident country and by the Embassy of Nepal.

Courses offered:

The following courses are offered in Patan Academy of Health Sciences:

1. MBBS
2. Post Graduate studies in medicine
3. Proficient Certificate level in Nursing
4. Midwifery
5. B.Sc. Nursing
6. M.Sc. Nursing
7. BNS

MBBS: Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery

Patan Academy of Health Sciences runs this four and a half year program with compulsory Community based internship for MBBS aspirants. It focuses on basic medical sciences with development in  interdepartmental integration and clinical and community correlation for the first two academic years.

Clinical subjects, community medicine and forensic medicine have been arranged to be studied during the next one and a half year from the third academic year onwards, while all the clinical subjects along with management in health, community field experience and junior clinical clerkship continue until the end of the four and a half year of the MBBS curriculum of Kathmandu University.

The course starts from the month of August- September every year.

The departments of the college includes:

1. Anatomy
2. Department of Community Medicine
3. Biochemistry
4. Microbiology
5. Pathology
6. Pharmacology
7. Physiology
8. Forensic Medicine
9. Ophthalmology
10. Otorhinolaryngology
11. Obstetrics and Gynaecologists
12. Paediatrics

The university runs on its own charter and has a set of enshrined goals and principles for its  students and staff to follow. It runs several student exchange programs and a well equipped placement cell that engages with healthcare institutions in foreign countries of the first and second world and many western nations as well. It is a golden name in the field of medical studies in Nepal and it strives to give to its pupils a strong and efficient base of medical studies in Nepal. The MBBS programs in Nepal have always been assumed to be of underachieving levels but with Patan Academy of Health Sciences, there seems to be a budding change in the field of medical Universities in Nepal.

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