01 May 2018. Since 2011 PAHS started hosting an artistic contest in conjunction with their students learning about the heart to encourage our medical students to retain and nurture their artistic and humanities roots throughout their training and to explore the creative facet of the medical students in the form of talents such as painting, photography, music and poetry, which is very rare in the context of Nepal. It is expected to contribute to graduating doctors with strong observational skills as well as a more emphatic and humanistic approach to medicine.
Dr. Carol Ann Courneya, one of the international volunteer faculty at PAHS founded a medical art contest along with the cardiac science teaching to the first year undergraduate students during the cardiovascular block under their MBBS curriculum. The students are asked to conceptualize “artistically” what they learnt about the heart and circulatory system.
The first batch student Achyut Koirala conceived the name for the contest “Mero Mutu, Mero Kala” (My Heart My Art), while the second batch student Carmina Shrestha conceived the official logo that combined its Nepal roots, the cardiac theme and the caring hands of the PAHS faculty and staff.
“Mero Mutu, Mero Kala” 2018- Participants (Batch-7)To give continuation to the series, this year the contest was held among the seventh batch MBBS students and Dr. Ranjan Suwal, the block coordinator coordinated the contest in which 19 participants took part with 23 submissions under various categories. There were total of 18 arts, 3 models, 1 poem and 1 fabric painting, kept for display in the Basic Science block. All the winners were given away prizes by PAHS executives amid a prize distribution program in presence of executives, faculty members and the class.
Sanila Shakya grabbed the first prize whereas the second and third position were secured by Merina Shrestha and Reshu Ratna Singh respectively. Consolation prizes were given away to Raunak Rauniyar and Mahima Banjade for their masterpieces. The whole program was coordinated by Dr. Ranjan Suwal who is also the block coordinator of the Cardiovascular Block.