Developing and sustaining a medical humanities program at KIST Medical College, Nepal

A Journal of Healthcare Ethics & Humanities. Published since 1993 by Forum for Medical Ethics Society.
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ISSN: 0975-5691 (Online); 0974-8466 (Print) RNI Reg No. MAHENG/2016/67188


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1.	Title	Title of document	Developing and sustaining a medical humanities program at KIST Medical College, Nepal

2.	Creator	Author's name, affiliation, country	P Ravi shankar; KIST Medical College, Lalitpur; NP

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4.	Description	Abstract	The author conducted a voluntary Medical Humanities (MH) module at Pokhara, Nepal, in 2007 as a curriculum innovation project for a fellowship in health sciences education. He conducted a module for faculty members at KIST Medical College (KISTMC), Lalitpur, Nepal, in 2008. The modules used literature excerpts, case scenarios, role-plays, paintings and group activities to explore different aspects of MH. The module for faculty members had the objectives of introducing faculty to MH and also creating facilitators for the student modules. For the last four years the author has been facilitating an MH module for first-year medical students at KISTMC.

5.	Publisher	Organizing agency, location	Forum for Medical Ethics Society

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7.	Date	(YYYY-MM-DD)	2016-11-30

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11.	Source	Title; vol., no. (year)	Indian Journal of Medical Ethics;: The ethics movement in India

12.	Language	English=en	en

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