Medical Education
| Medical Education | |
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| Location: | Sakya Monastery, Jharkot |
| Institution: | The Purnell Foundation |
| Project: | The personnel with The Purnell Foundation visited Jharkot, Nepal in the Fall of 2003. While there, we taught English to the monks at the Sakya Monastery. We had the opportunity to teach English to the monks and saw first hand the limited amount of educational resources, texts, medical books and school supplies. Each monk will become an Amchi (doctor) and therefore need a higher level of training than what they are now receiving. The facility is limited to one Nepali teacher for all subjects which include; Tibetan, Nepali and English. The Amchi students need specific training by trained Nepali medical instructors to enable the Nepali Amchis to best treat the patients in the surrounding rural villages. Our foundation believes that the education being delivered to the students can be greatly enhanced from this training. The Purnell Foundation would construct a library to hold the resources needed for the medical students education, this would provide a significant learning curve for them. The library would allow the students the opportunity to use the resources of medical books, computers and instructional material for medical education purposes.
The Purnell Foundation acknowledges the need for a small medical library at the Jharkot Monastery and Tibetan Medical school in the village of Jharkot, a village located in Northwestern Nepal and inhabited primarily by Tibetans. At the present time, there are no library facilities in this region of the country, nor are there medical facilities. The Amchi (Tibetan Medicine) school has only a few books and relies mostly on Tibetan sutras (traditional prayers recited by the monks) for teaching. The problem of educating the 30-40 medical students is due to lack of teaching equipment. This is critical because these students will one day be treating the surrounding village people. The surrounding communities currently come to the monastery for treatment or one of the older Amchi students goes to their home for treatment. The medical library would be open to the public as a medical resource. |
| Medical Education | |
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| Institution: | Sakya Monastery |
| Location: | Jharkot |
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| Title: | Sakya Monastery Nepali Medical Education |
| ID: | 03PF001 |
| Type: | Fund Raising Project |
| Date: | 2003 |
| Grant: | $0 |
| Funded: | $0 |
| Needed: | $20,000 |
| Details: | Library resources including but not limited to: texts, computers, medical journals in all three languages, medical instruction material, basic supplies, and CD Roms.
The Purnell Foundation has established a budget of $20,000 to accomplish its goal of providing printed medical instruction material, several computers, CD Roms, text books and medical journals for the Amchi students. The Purnell Foundation is certain that the medical library will be a significant benefit for the Amchi students, instructors, surrounding communities and visiting scholars. The students need this medical library to pursue and enhance their medical education. This in turn will benefit the surrounding communities as well. We hope that you too see the dire need for a small medical library in Jharkot, Nepal. |
| Medical Education | |
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| 10/11/04 | Approved by ANMF/Nepal. |
| 1/25/04 | Approved by ANMF as a Fund Raising Project. |
| 11/18/06 | Fund Raising Project status expired. |