Teaching in Nepal again

Hello blog followers!

I am reviving my blog about teaching in Nepal.  I will be in Nepal for the first 2 weeks in September teaching medical genetics to the 1st year medical students at the Patan Academy of Health Sciences (PAHS).  This will be the 3rd class for PAHS and the 3rd class I will meet.  I am really looking forward to it.  I will also be doing some faculty development.

I would like to thank Academics Without Borders Canada (AWBC) for their financial support for this trip.  As well, I would like to thank all of those people who have supported me through GoFundMe. 

Hopefully you will follow this blog and find it interesting...or at least entertaining.

Jane

Teaching Medical Genetics in Nepal

Sunday, June 3 was my first day of teaching medical students at PAHS.  I can remember delivering the exact same lecture - The Importance of Genetics in Medicine and Modes of Inheritance - to the 1st batch of PAHS students last year.  I have to say that the classrooms, lecture halls and offices of PAHS were MUCH hotter this year!  The students, hopefully, seemed to get it.

This was also Katie's last day before she headed off to a conference in Europe and then home to Seattle.  It was too bad that our time did not overlap as much this year and I didn't get a chance to see Katie much this time in Nepal.

Katie, Stephanie and me

Babu, Katie and Stephanie

Babu, Katie and me

"How to Talk About Science" conference at UVic

Sadly, I am missing the "How to Talk About Science" conference at UVic that is going on right now!  I helped Dr. Paul Zeht and others plan the conference and then my dates for coming to Nepal were moved up so I had to miss it.  I was supposed to be on the panel represetning "Let's Talk Science" at UVic (as its Director) and meeting all of the people with the same interests as me.

I am teaching medical genetics at a medical school (Patan Academy of Health Sciences - PAHS) here in Nepal.  Communicating science to English as a second language students in a different culture.  Very challenging!

However, because social media and technology are so amazing, I am following all of the action on Twitter via #talksci.  Thanks so much to all of you tweeters who are keeping me up to date on this amazing science communication conference all the way across the globe!

Heading Back to Nepal Soon!

Hello followers!  It's that time again - I am heading back to Nepal to teach Medical Genetics at the Patan Academy of Health Sciences (PAHS).  I leave on May 24, 2012 and I am really looking forward to seeing my friends, colleagues and students again!  It will be so great to see how the first batch of medical students are doing in their 2nd year.  And to meet the second batch of students.  The teaching schedule was pushed back a bit so I am going about 2 months later than I did last year.  It will be very rainy this time around - no fun.  Bought my rainboots and umbrella and I am told I will need good bug spray...

I really hope that you will follow my journey again here and comment lots!