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Nepal Medical College

Medical school in Kathmandu

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ6994378 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital (NMCTH) Teaching Hospital institution in Kathmandu, Nepal established in 1997 by the late Sachey Kumar Pahari. NMC provides medical care and provides medical education in Nepal. Nepal Medical College is located in Jorpati, Kathmandu.

Nepal medical college is an institution affiliated to Kathmandu University. Kathmandu University (KU) is an autonomous, not-for-profit, self-funding public institution established by an Act of Parliament in December 1991 and is listed in World Directory of Medical Schools. It was also listed in the now discontinued International Medical Education Directory (IMED).

Nepal Medical Colleges Pvt. Ltd (NMC) is situated at Attarkhel of Jorpati Village Development Committee, in Kathmandu, about 11 km. northeast of Kathmandu city. It lies at the foot hill of a mound.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Nepal Medical College” as medical school in Kathmandu. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Nepal, Medical and College.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 1991—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Nepal, Medical and College providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Nepal Medical College”, the useful work is to connect “medical school in Kathmandu” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6994378. VIAF identifies the subject as 141735220. The Library of Congress control number is no2001030893. Authority coordinates are 27.732, 85.377. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997 and 1991.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Nepal Medical College”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Nepal Medical College primary sources, Nepal Medical College archive and Nepal research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from “Nepal Medical College” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.