title: Developing and sustaining a medical humanities program at KIST Medical College, Nepal.
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.    The activity-based modules were conducted in small groups. Participant views about the modules were positive. MH has a number of benefits in medical education and should be strongly considered for inclusion by medical schools in developing countries. MH modules should be creative, fun and taken forward by interested faculty members.
authors: Department of Medical Education, KIST Medical College, Lalitpur, NEPAL e-mail: ravi.dr.shankar@gmail.com.
authors: P Ravi
authors: PR
authors: Shankar
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004501:Education, Medical; D004992:Ethics, Medical / Q000193:education*; D006809:Humanities / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D009390:Nepal; D016730:Program Development