Dhulikhel Hospital, a teaching hospital affiliated with Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, has long been a leader in innovative medical education in Nepal. Among its recent transformative initiatives is LEAD Nepal, a program designed to strengthen simulation-based clinical education through a collaboration with Mount Sinai’s Simulation Teaching and Research (STAR) Center and Mount Sinai’s AMPATH Nepal Partnership.
Read MoreA fourth-year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Salonee Shah spent one month in February in Nepal for her clinical elective. This experience was humbling, challenging, and deeply meaningful, undoubtedly shaping her career in medicine.
Read MoreMadeline Fields, MD, and Lara Marcuse, MD, Professors of Neurology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Co-Directors of the Mount Sinai Epilepsy Center, recently traveled to Nepal to expand neurological care for underserved communities.
Read MoreIn response to this urgent need, three psychiatry experts from Mount Sinai—Jan Schuetz-Mueller, MD, Rachel Fischer, MD, and Melanie Brown, MD, MSc—recently taught an intensive week-long course in global mental health for Nepali students (public health, nursing, medicine, and physiotherapy), faculty, and researchers at Dhulikhel Hospital Kathmandu University Hospital and Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences.
Read MoreAntimicrobial resistance is a growing global crisis, and Nepal is no exception. The misuse and overuse of antibiotics have led to drug-resistant bacteria, making common infections harder to treat. Dhulikhel Hospital, in collaboration with the Arnhold Institute for Global Health at Mount Sinai and the AMPATH Nepal Partnership, has launched an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program - an initiative that ensures responsible antibiotic use to prevent resistance while providing the best possible treatment for patients.
Read MoreThe AMPATH Nepal partnership has launched a new program to improve access to emergency care in remote regions of Nepal called Project ECHO.
Read MoreGlobal IMPACT, a pediatric emergency medicine project was selected as one of the Nepal Pilot Projects.
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