Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences

Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences (KUSMS) is one of the nine schools of Kathmandu University running medical, nursing and allied health science program. KUSMS is a collaborative program of Kathmandu University and Dhulikhel Hospital. The main office of KUSMS is on the premises of Dhulikhel Hospital, a Kathmandu University hospital, in Kavrepalanchok District, Nepal. KUSMS was set up in 1994.

Manipal College of Medical Sciences in Pokhara was the first medical college to be granted affiliation. Since then, KUSMS has granted affiliation to several medical colleges around the country.

KUSMS formally started its own medical training program, the MBBS program, on 7 September 2001 in association with Dhulikhel Hospital. The first class was 43 Nepali students. The day is annually celebrated as KUSMS Day. Although the medical school is still widely known as KUMS, inside and outside the country, its name was changed to Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences (KUSMS) in 2006, in view of the fact that it not only trains medical undergraduates and postgraduates, but also runs nursing and allied health science programs

Recent developments

On the central campus run as KUSMS/DH Collaboration, the EIGHTH batch of MBBS students have graduated from the medical school and the NINTH batch is on internship. The 14th batch of students joined the medical school (August Session 2013). The students of the TENTH batch are on final year of the course and waiting for final exam to appear, while the 13th are near to the basic science leaving university examination. Kusms is planning to introduce a new course, Bsc nursing in midwifery very soon.