DM Critical Care Medicine

Short description
Super-specialty doctorate preparing physicians for advanced intensive-care management across medical, surgical, trauma, and peri-operative domains.

Description
Program delivers high-intensity clinical training in airway management, ventilation, sepsis, shock states, ARDS, multi-organ failure, trauma, sedation, peri-operative care, transfusion, and hospital-acquired infection control. Training is distributed across KU-affiliated hospitals and governed by MEC selection standards. Emphasis on evidence-based critical-care practice, interdisciplinary decision-making, and advanced procedural capability.

Curricular structure (table only)

Features
• Three-year super-specialty program under KUSMS
• Offered through Kathmandu Medical College, Nepal Medical College, and Birat Medical College
• Entry strictly via MEC MCQ-based examination
• Training across multidisciplinary ICU environments
• Emphasis on high-acuity management, invasive procedures, and protocol-driven care
• Structured integration of general medicine and subspecialty critical-care domains

Fee
• NPR 2,590,000 (Nepali students)
• Foreign nationals: 1.6× Nepali fee

Eligibility
• MD Anesthesiology or equivalent
• MD Internal Medicine or equivalent
• MD Critical Care Medicine
• Specialty registration with Nepal Medical Council or respective national council

Admission process
• Register for MEC entrance exam.
• Sit for 200-question single-best-response MCQ exam (3 hours, pass mark 100).
• MEC ranking determines selection and seat allocation.
• Enroll at assigned KU-affiliated institution after MEC confirmation.

Job prospects
• Consultant in multidisciplinary ICUs
• Critical-care physician in tertiary and teaching hospitals
• Leadership roles in sepsis, trauma, shock, and ventilation programs
• ICU quality-improvement and patient-safety roles
• Clinical researcher in acute care, ventilation, and resuscitation
• Faculty positions in medical colleges
• Senior positions in emergency and critical-care system development