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ArticleJNMA; journal of the Nepal Medical Association2024

Reflection on Five Months Rural District Hospital Posting of Final Year MBBS Students.

Pragyan Basnet, Ritika Karki, Rupesh Acharya, Priyesh Lohani, Udaya Kumar Malla

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Article in JNMA; journal of the Nepal Medical Association, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Pragyan BasnetPatan Academy of Health Sciences, Lagankhel, Lalitpur, Nepal.
Ritika KarkiPatan Academy of Health Sciences, Lagankhel, Lalitpur, Nepal.
Rupesh AcharyaPatan Academy of Health Sciences, Lagankhel, Lalitpur, Nepal.
Priyesh LohaniPatan Academy of Health Sciences, Lagankhel, Lalitpur, Nepal.
Udaya Kumar MallaPatan Academy of Health Sciences, Lagankhel, Lalitpur, Nepal.

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Abstract

abstractPatan Academy of Health Sciences has been sending its undergraduate medical students to rural postings aligning with the national health system of Nepal to produce competent and empathetic healthcare professionals as a part of its social accountability. One such rural posting is a 20-week long district posting where students are posted at district hospital and district health office. We were final-year students posted at Gulmi district for this purpose in the year 2021/22. We learned the functioning of a district hospital along with different clinical skills. We also learned to use the district health information system and different qualitative tools in drafting district health reports and strategic planning under the guidance of the District Health Office. Such exposure of medical students is essential to develop competent and empathetic health professionals and similar provisions should be included in the undergraduate curriculum of other universities.

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Education, Medical, UndergraduateHospitals, DistrictStudents, MedicalClinical CompetenceHospitals, RuralHumansNepalRural Health Servicesmedical educationmedical school rural health.

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PMID39356779
PMCPMC10924472

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