Patan Academy of Health Sciences

The Patan Academy of Health Sciences is a public not-for-profit tertiary academic institution dedicated to improving Nepal's rural health by training health workers for rural Nepal. The goal of PAHS is that its graduates will not only provide severely needed medical care in rural Nepal, but will also eventually become leaders in health care policy, dedicated to improving the health of the remote and destitute populations in Nepal. Furthermore, PAHS will serve as a model of innovative medical education in a developing country, which can be replicated elsewhere . PAHS is located in the city of Patan, Nepal, which is adjacent to the capital city of Kathmandu. PAHS is based at Patan Hospital, which is the major teaching hospital for the academy. Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world, and the health care available to many Nepalis is clearly inadequate. One of the main reasons for this is the unwillingness of health care personnel, particularly doctors, to serve in Nepal's remote and rural areas. The country's current system of medical education has failed to address this. The Patan Academy of Health Sciences (PAHS) is dedicated to improving the health status of the people of Nepal by producing doctors who are willing and able to provide health care to disadvantaged Nepalis living in remote or rural areas. The academy initially consisted of a School of Medicine (SoM), which began to teach prospective doctors in 2010. In the year 2016, PAHS started its various nursing programs under School of Nursing and Midwifery (SoNaM) after acquisition of Lalitpur Nursing College in Sanepa which was beforehand running programs from Tribhuwan University (TU), the oldest and the only government institution in Nepal under Institute of Medicine (IOM). The offered programs are Proficiency Certificate Level Nursing (PCL Nursing), Bachelors in Nursing (BN), Bachelor in Nursing (BNS), Master in Nursing (MN). In the year 2017, PAHS started in Maters Program in Public Health (MPH) under School of Public Health (SoPH). In ...