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Tribhuvan University, Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Kathmandu

Kathmandu, Central Region, Nepal • 240 Employees
Hospital & Health Care

Maharajgunj Medical Campus (MMC) at Maharajgunj, Kathmandu is one of the 9 campuses of the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Since its upgradation to the status of a campus of IOM from the Auxiliary Health Worker's School in 1972, MMC has, during the span of just over three decades, played a significant role in conducting academic programs for the development of different categories of Human Resources for Health (HRH) in Nepal. Of the 29 academic programs that the IOM runs to date, 25 consisting of 18 postgraduate, 4 undergraduate programmes (about 90% of the educational activities of the IOM) are being conducted at MMC.The establishment of Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) in 1983, MMC acquired the full status of the First Medical School in Nepal. Since then, MMC not only became responsible for imparting medical education but also started to provide tertiary health care to all those coming to TUTH. The faculty of medicine here played a dual role- that of a medical teacher and a medical specialist.Institutional Objectives:In its endeavor to fulfilling country's need of Human Resources for Health an research undertakings, MMC in association with TUTH and accordance with the Government of Nepal New Education Act 1993 (2050), has the following overall institutional objectives:1. To undertake undergraduate and postgraduate medical education to create generalist and specialist medical professionals.2. To train human resources for health in allied health sciences.3. To deliver preventive, curative, promotional and rehabilitiative health care.4. To conduct educational and biomedico-social research.5. To implement continuing education for Human Resources for Health. 6. To establish academic linkage with international medical schools/colleges/universities.