P Ravi Shankar

Publications

• Teaching Social Issues in Use of Medicines to Pharmacy Students
• Development and evaluation of a voluntary education module on medicine safety for basic science medical students in Nepal
• Effect of an educational intervention on knowledge and attitude regarding pharmacovigilance and consumer pharmacovigilance among community pharmacists in Lalitpur district, Nepal
• Book review: Safety in medication use
• Self-directed learning in undergraduate medical education
• Eleven years of the health humanities – a personal journey.
• Stress and coping strategies among undergraduate nursing and medical students at AIMU, St Lucia.
• Medical Students’ Opinions Regarding Possible Influence of Culture and Social Issues on Health Seeking Behaviour
• Medication Safety Beyond the Hospital and Role of Pharmacists in Ambulatory Medication Safety Process
• Brain drain and practice locations of Nepalese medical students
• Challenges with regard to undergraduate medical education in offshore Caribbean medical schools.
• Experiences of a theatre of the oppressed workshop
• Knowledge and Practice of Self-medication among Undergraduate Medical Students
• Obtaining a clearer perspective on the differently abled: a case study from a Caribbean medical school.
• Readiness for self-directed learning among basic science and premedical students at a Caribbean medical school
• Utilising the Curriculum Committee to Strengthen Teaching-Learning in a Medical School
• WONCA rural medical education guidebook
• Book review: How medicines are born – the imperfect science of drugs.
• Book review: Nepalese national formulary 2018.
• Top Ten Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) Trends
• A centralized Caribbean Medical University for offshore medical schools – an idea whose time has come?
• Caribbean offshore medical schools - Accreditation and financial challenges
• Student feedback about the inaugural American International Medical University health humanities module.
• Challenges in conducting small group sessions in pharmacology – a Caribbean perspective
• Impact assessment of pharmacovigilance-related educational intervention on nursing students’ knowledge, attitude and practice: A pre-post study
• Development and Evaluation of a Pharmacovigilance Education Module for Medical Students in Nepal
• Referee report. For: Case Report: Levetiracetam causing acute liver failure complicating post-operative management in a neurosurgical patient [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]
• Cinemeducation: Facilitating educational sessions for medical students using the power of movies.
• The Unmet Need for Pharmacists as Important Members of the Emergency Department Team in Resource-Limited Settings: A Case of Nepal
• Misconceptions and misuse of medicines in developing countries.
• Misconceptions and Misuse of MEDICINES in Developing Countries
• Commentary on Chemotherapy
• Attitudes and practices of community pharmacists and barriers to their participation in public health activities in Yemen: Mind the gap
• Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Regarding Eye Health and Eye Health Services in Nepal
• An insight into the pharmaceutical sector in Yemen during conflict: challenges and recommendations
• General public’s knowledge and practices on face mask use during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional exploratory survey from Dharan, Nepal [version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations]
• Role of Zinc in childhood diarrhea management: a case of Nepal
• Perception of community pharmacy personnel towards patient counseling and continuing pharmacy education programs in Aden, Yemen
• Effect of the 2015 earthquake on pediatric inpatient pattern at a tertiary care hospital in Nepal
• Health-care Professionals’ Knowledge and Perception of Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting and Pharmacovigilance in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital of Nepal
• SciPub–019–Getting Your Article Published in Scientific Journals- an Event Report
• Overview, Challenges and Future Prospects of Drug Information Services in Nepal: A Reflective Commentary
• Knowledge, attitude and practice immediately before and following a three-day workshop on ‘Strategies for reducing antimicrobial resistance and promoting rational use of antimicrobials’
• Critical Evaluation of Drug Advertisements in a Medical College in Lalitpur, Nepal
• Influence of Sparshanam, a medical humanities module and personal and professional development – perspectives of the first batch of medical graduates
• Knowledge and Practice on Ecopharmacovigilance and Medicine Storage Amongst Medical and Dental Students in Lalitpur, Nepal
• Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Coronavirus Disease Among Patients Visiting Eye Hospitals of Province Number 2, Nepal
• KEY COVID-19 EVIDENCE SOURCES
• Risk Perception and Hesitancy Toward COVID-19 Vaccination Among Healthcare Workers and Staff at a Medical College in Nepal
• Safety of air travel during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
• Self-directed learning during problem-based learning sessions
• Knowledge and perception towards pharmacovigilance among Healthcare professionals in Tertiary care Teaching Hospital in Aden, Yemen.
• Mainstreaming the medical humanities in a Caribbean medical school.
• Book review: Being mortal.
• Student feedback about the medical humanities module in a Caribbean medical school.
• Student knowledge and perception before and after an orientation program in an offshore Caribbean medical school
• Can you grow grain in Jumla?
• Gapminder: Understanding Health through Interactive Statistics
• Using Standardized Patients for Teaching-Learning and Assessment in a Caribbean Medical School
• Seven Semesters of Personal Drug Selection in a Caribbean Medical School
• Hospital pharmacy services in teaching hospitals in Nepal: challenges and the way forward.
• Book review: The midnight meal.
• Problems facing the Arab pharmaceutical industry: A case study of Yemen.
• Medical humanities in medical schools in India (Editorial).
• Book review: Deadly medicines and organized crime.
• Book review: Responsible use of medicines - A layman′s handbook
• Book review: Tackling drug-resistant infections globally
• Role of zinc in childhood diarrhea management: a case of Nepal.
• Student attitude towards integrative medicine in a Caribbean medical school.
• Promoting rational self-medication of NSAIDs in Nepal.
• Standardized patient program: Student feedback
• Teaching Social Issues in Use of Medicines to Pharmacy Students
• Involving a local educator in the Medical Humanities module
• Development and evaluation of a voluntary education module on medicine safety for basic science medical students in Nepal.
• Knowledge, perception and practice of self-medication among premedical and basic science undergraduate medical students
• Always there.
• Health humanities (editorial).
• My students surprise me every day.
• Three decades of medical school: Journey from a student to an educator.
• The best teacher is the one who does not 'teach'! (Editorial)
• Medicines shortage in Nepal: Problems and possible solutions.
• Comparison of the knowledge and perception of pharmacovigilance among pharmacy, dental and medical students in Aden-Yemen.
• Book review: Pharmaceutical sector in Yemen.
• The state of the world’s antibiotics 2015.
• rocrastination among basic science undergraduate medical students in a Caribbean medical school
• Faces of antimicrobial resistance.
• Pharmacology learning in Nepal and the Caribbean.
• An online nutrition in medicine module: An important resource for medical students and physicians
• Assessment of knowledge and perceptions toward generic medicines among basic science undergraduate medical students at Aruba
• Uncontrollable medicine prices in Pakistan
• Knowledge and practice on injection safety among primary health care workers in Kaski district, Western Nepal
• An Assessment of Diabetic Retinopathy and Diabetes Management System in Nepal
• A qualitative exploration of the major challenges facing pharmacovigilance in Saudi Arabia
• 55-word story: He waits
• Promoting rational self-medication of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in Nepal
• VigiAccess: Promoting public access to VigiBase
• Responsible use of fixed-dose combination antibiotics in India
• Using movies to strengthen learning of the humanistic aspects of medicine
• Challenges in shifting to an integrated curriculum in a Caribbean medical school
• Initiating small group learning in a Caribbean medical school
• Crossing the river!
• Knowledge about and practice of safe injection among supervisors of primary health care facilities in Kaski district, western Nepal.
• CredibleMeds: Independent information on medicines.
• Book review: The world health report 2013 Research for universal health coverage.
• Approach to learning of medical students in a Caribbean medical school
• Learning styles of premedical and basic science undergraduate medical students in a Caribbean medical school.
• An urgent need to strengthen nutrition education among medical students in India
• Perspective: Fourteen aphorisms: From problem solving to relationship building.
• Learning the Pre-Clinical Sciences in the Pre-Internet Era.
• Medical humanities.
• Four semesters of medical humanities at the Xavier University School of Medicine, Aruba
• Book review: Community based education in health professions
• Two good Samaritans.
• Medical humanities – initiating the journey @ XUSOM.
• Challenges in Implementing an Integrated Curriculum in Xavier University School of Medicine, Aruba
• Stress and Coping Strategies among Premedical and Undergraduate Basic Science Medical Students in a Caribbean Medical School
• Strengthening adverse drug reaction reporting in Nepal.
• My grandmother.
• Knowledge, attitude beliefs and practices of community pharmacy dispensers in Aden, Yemen towards adverse drug reaction reporting.
• Educational research and evaluation at XUSOM.
• The humanities in a traditional medical school.
• Free Resources for Conducting Learning Sessions for Undergraduate Medical Students About Pharmaceutical Promotion
• Seven semesters of problem-based learning at a Caribbean medical school.
• Introducing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) and gender identity issues in a medical humanities module.
• Empowering patients to promote and protect their health (Editorial).
• Here and there!: An experience. (Editorial).
• Book review: Principles of general and autonomic pharmacology.
• Book review: Human development report 2014.
• Pharmacovigilance Knowledge among Patients at a Teaching Hospital in Lalitpur District, Nepal
• Book review: A report of the safety and surveillance working group.
• Antimicrobial resistance Global report on surveillance 2014.
• 1990-2014: A period of growth for health institutions and health research in Nepal.
• Introducing medical humanities in south Asian medical schools In
• Cardiovascular toxicity of cardiovascular drugs.
• Cardiovascular toxicity of non-cardiovascular drugs
• Investigation on the effect of brass and copper electrodes during electric discharge machining of Inconel 718 using nano particles mixed dielectric fluid
• Cardiovascular Toxicity of Noncardiovascular Drugs
• Medical humanities in Nepal: Present scenario
• Cardiovascular Toxicity of Cardiovascular Drugs
• CredibleMeds: Independent information on medicines
• Knowledge, attitude and practice of self-medication among basic science undergraduate medical students in a medical school in Western Nepal
• Intraoperative and immediate postoperative outcomes of cataract surgery using phacoemulsification in eyes with and without pseudoexfoliation syndrome
• An educational intervention’s effect on healthcare professionals’ attitudes towards pharmacovigilance
• Risk of cardiovascular effects with azithromycin
• MedEdPORTAL: A resource for health educators
• Injection practice in Kaski district, Western Nepal: A community perspective Global health
• FHI360-satellife essential health links
• Injection practices in Nepal: Health policymakers' perceptions
• Need for involving consumers in Nepal's pharmacovigilance system
• Student perception about working in rural United States/Canada after graduation: a study in an offshore Caribbean medical school
• Orientation program for first year undergraduate medical students: knowledge, attitudes and perceptions
• A research methodology workshop on ‘Social issues in use of medicines’ – cooperation between institutions and participant feedback.
• A three day workshop on the theatre of the oppressed in a Nepalese medical school.
• A one day workshop on basic research methodology and scientific writing at Mahendranagar, Nepal.
• Changes in empathy among first year medical students before and after a medical humanities module.
• Medicine counseling services at tertiary care hospital in Nepal.
• Increasing ADR reporting in Nepal.
• Teaching the cat to learn!
• Pharmacovigilance in Nepal: Whose baby is it anyway?
• Medical Student Assessment in the Basic Sciences in Nepal and the Caribbean: Personal Observations.
• 'Modernizing' the Basic Sciences MD program at XUSOM, Aruba.
• Students’ perceived levels of ‘human skills’ and effectiveness of various modules in skill development
• Laughing at Life’s lessons: the role of Humour in Medical Education – an interactive assessment among Medical Faculty in Southeast Asia.
• Student feedback on an inaugural medical humanities module at XUSOM, Aruba
• Book review: What matters in medicine.
• Teaching pharmacology using small groups
• Book review: Control of non-communicable diseases in Nepal: Scientific, social and spiritual perspectives.
• Medical check-up of students enrolled in KIST Medical college, Nepal.
• Challenges of medical education in Nepal (editorial).
• Book review: World Health Statistics 2013.
• octor of Pharmacy internship module in Paediatrics at a Teaching Hospital in Lalitpur, Nepal: a preliminary report.
• Developing and sustaining a medical humanities program at KIST Medical College, Nepal
• Conducting Small Group Learning Sessions in a Cost-Effective Manner: Our Experiences.
• Book review: The access to medicine index 2012
• Problems and challenges faced in consumer reporting of adverse drug reactions in developing countries -A Case study of Yemen, Nepal and Malaysia.
• Promoting medical student research in Nepal (editorial).
• The international drug price indicator guide: An objective source of information about medicine prices
• Conducting Integrated Objective Structured Clinical Examination: Experiences at KIST Medical College, Nepal
• Prescribing skills for undergraduate medical students: Time to redress The neglect?
• Study on quality of life of chronic kidney disease stage 5 patients on hemodialysis.
• P drug selection: Choosing medicines objectively.
• Book review: Health policy and systems research.
• Teaching medical students to develop an ‘appropriate’ relationship with the pharmaceutical industry.
• Role plays used during a humanities in medicine module: Selected transcripts Part 2.
• Website review: The pharmacovigilance toolkit
• Medicine and the arts. A balcony in Nepal: glimpses of a Himalayan village: [excerpt] by Sally Wendkos Olds. Commentary.
• Pharmacovigilance in nepal: Whose baby is it anyway?
• A medical humanities module for the faculty members of the KIST medical college, Imadol, Lalitpur
• Developing and sustaining a medical humanities program at KIST Medical College, Nepal.
• Student feedback on problem-based learning processes
• Relevance of pharmacoepidemiology to Nepal
• Study of status of safe injection practice and knowledge regarding injection safety among primary health care workers in Baglung district, western Nepal
• Evaluation of academic detailing programme on childhood diarrhoea management by primary healthcare providers in Banke district of Nepal
• Commentary
• Teaching medical students to develop an 'appropriate' relationship with the pharmaceutical industry
• Strategies and challenges for safe injection practice in developing countries
• Student attitude towards communication skills learning in a Caribbean medical school
• Pharmacy practice and injection use in community pharmacies in Pokhara city, Western Nepal
• Knowledge, attitude and practice towards medicines among school teachers in Lalitpur district, Nepal before and after an educational intervention
• Introduction of structured physical examination skills to second year undergraduate medical students
• The evolving threat of antimicrobial resistance. Options for action.
• Mothers’ knowledge, attitude and practice about diarrhea and its management in Morang Nepal: An interventional study.
• Book Review: Essential drugs Practical guidelines.
• Unique design features of the FAIMER Fellowship in Health Sciences Education
• Book Review: Free medical information: Doctor = publisher.
• Book review: Nepalese national formulary.
• Clinical pharmacy and pharmacology in Nepal.
• Safety monitoring of medicinal products Reporting systems for the general public.
• A medical humanities module for faculty members at KIST Medical College, Imadol, Lalitpur.
• Book review: Practical approaches to hospital infection
• Introducing Medical Students to Social Issues in Use of Medicines
• Creating a user-driven student perspective in a Nepalese medical school.
• Lived experiences in ‘active’ small group learning.
• Coursera: Free online learning for the world
• Book review: Making a difference.
• Book Review: The Role of Education in the Rational use of Medicines.
• The ‘boys’ who did not come back from the brink
• Book review: Ten stories that mattered in access to medicines in 2011.
• Sparing the living.
• Knowledge, attitude and skills before and after a clinical research module.
• What I gained from six years of the Medical Humanities.
• Strengthening the publication process in Nepal [Review of the article 'Relevance of Post or Pre Peer Review Process Journals for the improvement of Medical Research in Nepal ' by Sathian B].
• Initiating PharmD internship in Nepal.
• Transcripts of a medical education in humanities module: selection of role plays.
• Challenges in conducting the undergraduate medical program in a medical school in Nepal: A personal selection.
• Coursera: Free online learning for the world.
• Antibiotic utilization for prophylaxis in a tertiary care rural teaching hospital.
• Mothers' knowledge, attitude and practice regarding diarrhea and its management in morang nepal: An interventional study
• Being a faculty member of the PSG-FAIMER Regional Institute
• What do reviewers look for in an original research article?
• Reviewing the review process: An important area of research
• Initiating pharmd internship in a teaching hospital in nepal
• Medicine and the arts. The doctor by Luke Fildes. Commentary.
• A low cost model of organizing and conducting workshops in Nepal
• Clinical pharmacy and pharmacology in Nepal
• Teaching a module on clinical trial research for PharmD students in Nepal: My experiences
• Commentary
• Possible impact of increase in female medical student admissions in Nepal: Findings from a qualitative study among medical undergraduates
• A three-day workshop on the theatre of the oppressed in a Nepalese medical school
• Mothers beliefs and barriers about childhood diarrhea and its management in Morang district, Nepal
• Antihypertensive prescribing preferences in three South Indian Hospitals: Cost analysis, physicians perspectives and emerging trends
• Knowledge, attitude and skills before and after a module on pharmaceutical promotion in a Nepalese medical school
• Student feedback about the use of literature excerpts in Sparshanam, a Medical Humanities module
• A survey of mothers' knowledge about childhood diarrhoea and its management among a marginalised community of Morang, Nepal
• Adverse drug reaction reporting in a pharmacovigilance centre of Nepal
• Student feedback about the use of role plays in Sparshanam, a medical humanities module
• Student perception about working in rural Nepal after graduation: a study among first- and second-year medical students
• Suicidal ideation among students of a medical college in Western Nepal: A cross-sectional study
• The doctor
• An urgent need to strengthen medical journals in South Asia
• GenMed 010: a one day workshop on Generic Medicines.
• Scholarship students in private medical schools an important source of support to Nepal’s health system.
• Seven years experience of P-drug selection
• Small group effectiveness during pharmacology learning sessions in a Nepalese medical school.
• Student feedback on an online group used to support a Medical Humanities module in a Nepalese medical school.
• Privatization of Medical Education in Nepal and South Asia: An Important Area for Future Research.
• Teaching rational use of medicines to health science students
• HINARI: Providing Access to Scientific Literature in Resource Constrained Settings.
• Increasing number of women medical students in Nepal: Some challenges and opportunities.
• FAIMER: 10 years of improving world health through education.
• Teaching Medical Students to use Antibiotics Rationally in a Medical School in Nepal .
• Student Perception About Peer-Assisted Learning Sessions in a Medical School in Nepal .
• Doctors and pharmaceutical promotion.
• Book review: Struggle for social service in Nepal
• The war against bacteria: Can coexistence be the answer?
• Clinical Profile And Drug Utilization Pattern In An Intensive Care Unit Of A Teaching Hospital In Western Nepal.
• Streptococcus pneumoniae infections in Western Nepal
• Medical Humanities.
• Learning sessions on critical appraisal of randomised clinical trials: Student feedback
• Sir Robert Hutchison's Petition and the Medical Humanities.
• Fixed Dose Drug Combinations in therapeutics: An Overview.
• Initiating and Strengthening Nepal’s Second Medication Counseling Center – Our Experiences.
• Restricting use of FDC of ampicillin/amoxicillin and cloxacillin in a Nepalese teaching hospital.
• Readiness for self directed learning among first semester students of a medical school in Nepal.
• Assessing and accessing health information on the internet.
• Four years of medical humanities in Nepal: What worked and what did not.
• DVD Review The unsettling equation.
• Encouraging academics and research in the department of Pharmacology in a new medical school in the Kathmandu valley.
• Hospital formulary: A potential tool to ensure rational use of medicines in Nepalese hospitals.
• Small group facilitation skills in problem-based learning.
• Teaching Pharmacology at a Nepalese Medical School: The Student Perspective.
• The Views of Medical Students about the Purpose and Objectivity of Assessment in a Medical College in Western Nepal.
• Issues covered in ‘My 2 innings’: A discussion from my personal perspective.
• A lay person’s guide to medicines: Book review.
• Promoting integrated learning and open-book examinations in South Asian medical schools.
• Introduction to oral rehydration salt and its importance in managing diarrhea.
• Developing pharmacy practice in medical schools in Nepal.
• Our experiences with 'sparshanam', a medical humanities module for medical students at KIST Medical College, Nepal
• Knowledge of selected medicine related issues among inpatients in a nepalese teaching hospital: A preliminary study
• National workshop on the medical humanities: Familiarizing the discipline in Nepal
• Pharmacotherapy of alcohol dependence
• Education sessions for pharmacy students on pharmacovigilance: A preliminary study
• Students' attitudes towards the use of audio visual aids during didactic lectures in pharmacology
• Ncouraging academics and research in the department of Pharmacology in a new medical school in the Kathmandu valley
• Medical humanities in Nepal - Snakes and ladders
• Drug utilisation among older inpatients in a teaching hospital in western Nepal
• Learning to maintain a proper relationship with the pharmaceutical industry
• Perceptions about lung health in Nepal before and after an educational session
• Coordinating the Undergraduate Medical (MBBS) Basic Sciences Programme in a Nepalese medical School
• A one day workshop on scientific writing: Brief report
• Authors' reply. Medical journals and pharmaceutical marketing
• Book review Medical Ethics manual.
• Reply to "generic medicines as a way to improve access and affordability: A proposed framework for Pakistan"
• ‘Writing a scientific paper’
• Drug and therapeutics committees – the need of the hour in Nepal.
• Has Carrying out Medical Research in South Asia become easier?
• Using ‘drug addiction’ as a base to explore various issues in the Basic Sciences and in clinical medicine.
• Creating and maintaining participant interest in the Medical Humanities.
• Perception and knowledge about HIV/AIDS among students in a medical college in Western Nepal.
• Need for Medicine (drug) Information Services in a Teaching Hospital.
• WHO Medicines Bookshelf Version 5.0: A review.
• A voluntary medical humanities module at the Manipal college of medical sciences, Pokhara, Nepal
• A slow attrition of primary care in South Asia.
• Book review Crash course Pharmacology.
• Book review: Nepal’s quest for health.
• A follow-up study on rational drug prescribing and dispensing in outpatients in a tertiary care teaching hospital of western Nepal.
• Aconite poisoning: a clinical review of the first four cases from Nepal.
• Concise workshop on helping students learn – participant feedback.
• The patient who came back from the brink.
• Promoting the more rational use of medicines: initial experiences from KIST Medical College, Lalitpur, Nepal.
• Book review: Young voices in research for health 2007.
• Hospital pharmacies should be run by the hospital under the supervision of the Medicine and Therapeutics committee.
• Book review: The essentials of contraceptive technology.
• Addressing challenges to promoting the more rational use of medicines in teaching hospitals in Nepal.
• Teaching health science students about rational use of medicines. (editorial)
• Impact of educational outreach visits by pharmacists on treatment of childhood diarrhoea - initial findings from Banke district, Nepal.
• Drug patents under the spotlight.
• Safety alerts on rosiglitazone.
• Trekking as a metaphor for medicine and medical education.
• Training postgraduate pharmacology students in a medical college in western Nepal.
• Introducing the concept of disease mongering to social pharmacy students in Malaysia
• A need to develop medical humanities in Nepal
• Pattern of potential drug-drug interactions in the Intensive Care Unit of a Teaching Hospital in Nepal: A pilot study
• Study of prescription of injectable drugs and intravenous fluids to inpatients in a teaching hospital in Western Nepal
• Pharmacovigilance awareness in a medical school in Nepal
• Letter to editor
• Website review: Worldmapper
• The views of medical students about the purpose and objectivity of assessment in a medical college in Western Nepal
• Medical education and medical educators in South Asia - A set of challenges
• Creative writing and medical education
• Impact of a medicine and therapeutics committee at a new medical college in Nepal
• Around the world: Improving health in South Asia
• A study of adverse drug reactions caused by first line anti-tubercular drugs used in Directly Observed Treatment, Short course (DOTS) therapy in western Nepal, Pokhara
• Conducting problem-stimulated learning in a Nepalese medical school
• Establishing and strengthening a medicine and therapeutics committee in a medical college in Nepal: Initial experiences
• Uniform requirements for medical journals - An idea whose time has come?
• Using paintings to explore the medical humanities in a Nepalese medical school
• Teaching pharmacology at a Nepalese medical school: The student perspective
• Impact of educational intervention on the pattern and incidence of potential drug-drug interactions in Nepal
• Design the shoe according to the foot!
• Assessing medical student learning in assessing the quality of health information on the internet and communicating the skill to patients
• Cessation of hostilities - Opportunities for medical schools in Nepal
• Letters to the MJM
• Imidazoline receptor agonists: Moxonidine and Rilmenidine.
• Publishing a drug information bulletin: Experiences from a developing country.
• PharmedOut
• Educating health professionals about drug and device promotion: A Nepalese perspective [4]
• Medical practice in the new millennium.
• Medical Humanities: Sowing the seeds in the Himalayan country of Nepal.
• Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI).
• Medical students’ attitudes towards and perception of the basic sciences in a medical college in Western Nepal.
• Prescribing pattern in diabetic outpatients in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Nepal.
• Learning sessions on critical appraisal of randomized clinical trials: Student feedback.
• Book review: Ten years of medicine and the arts.
• Book review: The snow leopard.
• Learning session on Disease mongering- Student feedback
• Can medical humanities take root in Asia?
• Ethical criteria for medicinal drug promotion.
• Peripheral edema due to S-amlodipine – a report of three cases.
• Pokhara – a ‘different’ setting for medical education.
• Medical Journals.
• Understanding the essentials of pharmacogenomics- the potential implications for the future pharmacotherapy.
• Pharmacovigilance in Nepal: A guide for health care professionals
• Doing high altitude research in the Himalayas.
• Noisy classrooms, interested students, active learning.
• Publishing a Drug Information Bulletin: Experiences from a developing country
• Can drug utilization help in promoting the more rational use of medicine? Experiences from Western Nepal.
• Disease mongering
• Fluoroquinolone utilization among inpatients in a teaching hospital in Western Nepal
• Knowledge about heart attack and hypertension among individuals attending a cardiac camp in Pokhara city
• Fair skin in South Asia: An obsession?
• Systemic adverse drug reactions: A preliminary report from the regional pharmacovigilance center, Western Nepal
• Irrational fixed dose combinations in Nepal: Need for intervention
• Using case scenarios and role plays to explore issues of human sexuality
• Drug induced hepatitis with anti-tubercular chemotherapy: Challenges and difficulties in treatment
• Drug utilization pattern in dental outpatients in tertiary care teaching hospital in western Nepal.
• Knowledge, attitude and practice about diabetes among diabetes patients in Western Nepal
• Being a dispensing prescriber in rural South India.
• Pattern of adverse drug reactions experienced by tuberculosis patients in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Western Nepal
• Pattern of potential drug-drug interactions in diabetic out-patients in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in Nepal
• Disease mongers in a nation in transition?
• Surgical site infection and Antibiotics use pattern in a tertiary care hospital in Nepal
• Publishing A Drug Information Bulletin: Experiences From A Developing Country
• Commentary
• Mentoring a medical student towards applied research in a developing country
• Problem-based learning: The right direction for medical teaching?
• The grapes of wrath: [Excerpt] - Commentary
• Personal Drug Selection: Problem-Based Learning in Pharmacology: Experience from a Medical School in Nepal
• Reading habits and attitude toward medical humanities of basic science students in a medical college in western Nepal
• Breast-feeding initiation and determinants of exclusive breast-feeding - A questionnaire survey in an urban population of western Nepal
• Science attitudes and knowledge among preclinical medical students in Pokhara, Nepal
• Book review: Starting or strengthening a drug bulletin- A practical manual.
• The old lady of Pokhara.
• Community-based learning in a time of conflict [10]
• Trekking and medical students – A Nepalese perspective.
• The mother.
• Drug utilization among surgical outpatients.
• Morbidity profile, prescribing patterns and working of the community drug programme in a health post in Western Nepal.
• Book review: Nepal Drug Review (NDR).
• Always follow what you preach!
• Book review: Drug promotion What we know, what we have yet to learn.
• Drug review: Paracetamol.
• Integrating Subjects through Problem-based Learning: A South Asian Perspective.
• Safety monitoring of drugs--where do we stand?
• All drugs are poisons at a higher dose - acute paracetamol poisoning.
• Faith healing in western Nepal.
• A study on rational drug prescribing and dispensing in outpatients in a tertiary care teaching hospital of Western Nepal.
• Book review: Teacher’s guide to good prescribing.
• Book review: WHO Medicines strategy countries at the core 2004-2007.
• In the foothills of medicine: A young doctor’s journey from the inner city of Chicago to the mountains of Nepal.
• Ambiguous pricing of Nepalese medicine.
• Student participants’ perception about Medical quiz at the Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal
• Drug utilization in medical inpatients.
• How to investigate the use of medicines by consumers.
• British National formulary September 2006 52nd edition.
• Book review: Prevention and cessation of tobacco use: A manual for clinic and community based intervention.
• The Literature, Arts and Medicine database: A review.
• Running a voluntary module – Personal experiences.
• The Medical Humanities in Nepal.
• Holistic medicine in Nepal
• Understanding the essentials of drug interactions: A potential need for safe and effective use of drugs
• Impact of counselling hospitalised diabetic patients [4]
• Dermatological adverse drug reactions due to systemic medications - A review of literature
• Cerebellar control of visceral responses-possible mechanisms involved
• Use of an educational DVD on street medicines as a platform to explore the problem of irrational use of medicines: Student feedback
• Anomalous branching of the axillary artery: A case report
• Attitudes of first-year medical students towards the doctor patient relationship.
• A study on rational drug prescribing and dispensing in outpatients in a tertiary care teaching hospital of Western Nepal
• Contribution of the regional drug information center towards drug safety.
• Ambiguous pricing of topical dermatological products: A survey of brands from two South Asian countries
• Role of pharmacist in counseling asthma patients
• Initiating and strengthening medical student research: Time to take up the gauntlet
• Designing a spontaneous adverse drug reaction reporting form: An exercise for medical students
• Fairness creams in South Asia - A case of disease mongering? [2]
• Critical evaluation of drug promotion using role-plays.
• Psychological morbidity, sources of stress and coping strategies among undergraduate medical students of Nepal
• The drug information center at the Manipal teaching hospital - Going beyond drug information
• Pretreatment with sarafotoxin 6c prior to coronary occlusion protects against infarction and arrhythmias via cardiomyocyte mitochondrial K ATP channel activation in the intact rabbit heart during ischemia/reperfusion
• Care seeking behaviour for childhood illness- A questionnaire survey in western Nepal
• Educational sessions on assessing rationality of prescriptions: Student feedback
• Student seminars as a means of integrating basic science subjects at the Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal.
• Melatonin, the hormone of darkness: a ray of hope for many diseases.
• Student feedback on the objective structured component of the practical examination in pharmacology.
• Medical students’ opinions about complementary and alternative medicine: a questionnaire based survey
• Effect of an educational intervention on antimicrobial use patterns in the Dermatology out-patient department.
• Cephalosporin utilization in the inpatient wards of a teaching hospital in Western Nepal.
• Morbidity profile and drug utilization in a sub-health post in Western Nepal.
• Prescribing patterns in medical outpatients.
• Inter-rater reliability of the assessment of communication skills in Pharmacology.
• Hypolipidemic activity of ginkgo biloba extract- EGb 761 in female wistar rats.
• Newer antibiotics.
• Intensive care unit drug utilization in a teaching hospital in Nepal.
• Emotional impact of cadaver dissection: a survey in a medical college in western Nepal.
• Safety profile of herbal drugs: urgent need for monitoring.
• Severe Cutaneous ADRs.
• Preventing chronic diseases: a vital investment.
• Utilization of cancer chemotherapeutic agents in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Western Nepal.
• Introduction to DOTS strategy and the safety profile of first line antitubercular drugs –a review of literature.
• Tramadol.
• Introduction to medication errors and the error prevention initiatives in a teaching hospital in Western Nepal.
• Prescribing skills--a priority area in medical education.
• Morbidity profile and prescribing patterns among outpatients in a teaching hospital in Western Nepal
• Intensive care unit drug utilization in a teaching hospital in Nepal
• Knowledge, attitude, and practice outcomes: Evaluating the impact of counseling in hospitalized diabetic patients in India
• Our experience as simulated patients during communication skills learning and assessment.
• Safety monitoring of drugs - Where do we stand?
• Cutaneous adverse drug reactions to modern medicines and initial experiences from a spontaneous adverse drug reaction reporting program in a tertiary care teaching hospital of Western Nepal
• Our experience with epidural steroid injections in management of low backpain and sciatica.
• Ginkgo biloba--an appraisal.
• Patient counseling by pharmacist - a focus on chronic illness.
• A survey of drug use patterns in western Nepal
• Pharmacogenomics - A new approach towards personalized medicine
• Prescribing patterns among paediatric inpatients in a teaching hospital in western Nepal
• Learning styles of preclinical students in a medical college in western Nepal
• Emotional impact of cadaver dissection: A survey in a medical college in western Nepal
• A comparative study of drug utilisation at different levels of the primary healthcare system in Kaski district, Western Nepal
• Pattern and economic impact of cutaneous adverse drug reactions: Initial experiences from the regional pharmacovigilance center, Western Nepal
• Student research projects as an aid to learning pharmacology [1]
• Modern medical education in Nepal
• Importance of transferable skills in pharmacology
• Mirtazapine-induced lower limb oedema
• Prescribing patterns of antibiotics and sensitivity patterns of common microorganisms in the Internal Medicine ward of a teaching hospital in Western Nepal: A prospective study
• Student attitudes towards communication skills training in a medical college in Western Nepal
• Postgraduate students as simulated patients in communication skills learning and assessment
• Student feedback on problem stimulated learning in pharmacology: A questionnaire based study
• Teaching pharmacovigilance to medical students and doctors
• Student attitudes towards the doctor-patient relationship in a medical college in western Nepal [3]
• Learning how drug companies promote medicines in Nepal: An educational initiative looks critically at the drug industry's promotional tactics
• Investigation of antimicrobial use pattern in the intensive treatment unit of a teaching hospital in western Nepal
• Self-medication and non-doctor prescription practices in Pokhara valley, Western Nepal: A questionnaire-based study