KUMJ | VOL. 2 | NO. 2 | ISSUE 6 | APRIL-JUNE, 2004

Geographic Origin of Nepali Doctors
Thapa BK

Though the history of in-country training of doctors in Nepal is not long, Nepal had started training doctors is abroad long ago. This is probably the first paper of its kind to correlate the developmental and ecological region to the country of training of Nepali doctors. This retrospective analysis reveals that nearly 38% doctors are trained in India, 22% each from former USSR and Nepal, 10% from Bangladesh, and 2.5% from Pakistan. Other countries contribute very few in the list. Nearly 2/3rd of the doctors represent the central developmental region and most of them are from Kathmandu valley. Ecologically mountain and hills are in great minority compared to Kathmandu valley and Terai. Interestingly training in former USSR shows a bit wider base regarding the origin in terms of developmental region. And Nepal has a clear broad base both in terms of developmental and ecological regions. As most of the doctors among Nepal trained ones are from IOM, the role of IOM way of selecting medical students need a deeper look into it.