Medical College in Nepal

B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS) was established on January 18, 1993 and subsequently upgraded as an Autonomous Health Sciences University on October 28, 1998 with a mandate to work towards developing socially responsible and competent health work force, providing health care and engaging in health research. The Institute is located in Eastern Nepal & it has extended its continued health services through teaching district concept to Primary Health Care Centers, District Hospitals and Zonal Hospitals in six districts of the region.

This University is aptly named after Bisheshwar Prasad Koirala, Nepal's visionary leader in social uplift, firm believer of National Reconciliation and National Integration. Situated in Dharan in the hilly slopes sprawled over an area of about 700 acres, the University has a clean pollution free environment, and water supply and electricity supply round the clock. The Institute is fully committed to its social responsibility and accountability. Candidates from disadvantaged groups are given opportunities for admission in most of the academic program mes. While selecting candidates for post graduate studies, the Institute has given due recognition to those medical officers who have worked in the primary health centers and district hospitals. The Institute has adopted innovative approaches of community-based training of students and services to the local people through the concept of Teaching District. Under this concept students of various program mes visit and/or are posted in the health institutions under faculty supervision where on one hand they get opportunity to learn in the community set-up and on the other hand the local health institutions get qualified health work-force regularly to provide the quality services to the people. The Institute has given special attention for uplift rural women from the marginalized communities of the teaching district.