Nepal Medical College (NMC) is situated in Attarkhel, Jorpati Village Development Committee, Kathmandu, approximately 11 km away. northeast of Kathmandu city. It lies at the foot of a hill. It has a quiet and tranquil environment, required of a medical college and a teaching hospital. The Gokarna hillock with pine trees, about half a kilometer away on the north, the Gokarna Safari Park across Bagmati river about one kilometer in the east, the terraces with trees encircling the NMC campus on the west, the NMC campus which comprises the college and Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital (NMCTH), has access to the main road through its main entrance on the southwest.
The NMC campus houses the academic buildings, library, female student and male student hostels and Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital (NMCTH). The college has departments of Clinical Biochemistry, Clinical Pharmacology, Clinical Physiology, Community Medicine, Forensic Medicine, Human Anatomy, Medical Microbiology, and Pathology that are required for the first two academic years of the MBBS curriculum. The departments of Anesthesiology, Dental, Dermatology, Emergency, Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Otorhinolaryngology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Radiology and Surgery undertake teaching of medical students in their respective wards and out patients departments during the rest of the period of four and a half year MBBS program in addition to providing health care services to patients from their departments at NMCTH on all working days.
Mission
The mission set by Nepal Medical College (NMC) is to educate human resources for health who are competent and have caring and compassionate behaviour for rendering preventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitative health care services to the people and at the same time keep themselves updated with the latest trends in medical and health sciences education by self-enquiring minds of biomedical, sociocultural and epidemiological scientific research.
Vision
- Sole Nepalese undertaking.
- A self-reliant health institute that shall impart medical education, including other health sciences education, at undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels.
- Provide healthcare services to people from its tertiary care Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital, as well as from community satellite healthcare centers.
- Perform biomedical, sociocultural, and epidemiological scientific research.
- Become an institute of Medical Education and Health Sciences Education, which should ultimately be upgraded into a deemed Technical University of Medical and
- Health Sciences of international repute.
