xenoMED is non profit, independent Online Nepalese Medical Community incorporated in 2005, owned, managed & lead by Dr. Angel Magar to provide a virtual place where all the Nepalese Medical Students, Doctors, Physician, Health Professionals and organizations would come and share their experiences, knowledge and information with each other. Beside this, it also provides latest Medical Breakthrough, Nepalese Health News, new researches & their finding in the field of medicine as it happens around the world.
History
Dr. Angel started NDR Discussion Forum as a part of
Nepal Drug Review in 2003. As there was a need for Medical Community to share their experience and medical knowledge, user started growing up then in October 2005, Dr. Angel decided to have its own independent existence and he transformed NDR Discussion Forum to xenoMED.
Dr. Angel’s future efforts will include the continual expansion of xenoMED, supporting the growth of the forums, as well as exploring new Internet-Based Technologies to help Medical Students, Doctors, Patients and Health Care Providers form online communities of support and compassion. He is also planning to work on fund raising and grant applications to provide xenoMED with more revenue.
Mission
xenoMED provides a free platform for the exchange of medically related experiences, knowledge & information for prospective and current medical students, doctors as well as physicians and other health care providers to improve the medical practice in a more scientific way. It has following mission:
- To disseminate the latest medical breakthrough & latest updates in the field of medicine as it happens around the world.
- To uplift the medical education system.
- To encourage medical students for problem based learning, research activity and humanitarian service.
- To provide available information to the young medical graduates to shape their career.
xenoMED's mission is to organize the world's medical information and make it available in Nepalese Medical Professionals more accessible & useful and to bring them all into a common floor where they can share their experience, knowledge and information to shape their career and to help the needy people in the community.
As a first step to fulfilling that mission, xenoMED’s founder Dr. Angel Magar has created a new approach to the online medical information by organizing and disseminating its contents through a web based discussion forum one of its kind in Nepal.
Goal
xenoMED has the vision for charity work long before its conception which is possible only when all the Nepalese Medical Students, Doctors, Physician & Organization agree and unite together to work for the service to humanity.
Dr. Angel has the ultimate goal to see xenoMED continue to grow and evolve, and for it to have a life of it's own as an organization. He has planned on dedicating himself to xenoMED indefinitely, as he feel it is the most important thing he will have ever worked on, but he also want to guarantee that xenoMED will continue to exist and thrive in the long-term future.
The rapidly changing medical knowledge, increasing awareness among the health consumers, competition among health professionals and the practice of evidence based medicine have forced many medical professional to be updated with the world of latest medical breakthrough. There is no way but to read the latest findings and consensus in the biomedical journals. So,
- Where do you find latest medical breakthrough?
- Can you afford all the medical journals latest editions?
- Do you find time to go through all of them?
- Do they arrive to yourself in time as quickly as you need or your practice demands?
- If not, what is your alternative?
There is more question than we listed above that a today's medical professional must contemplate. What will you do if someone from the cold end of the stethoscope asks you, "Doctor, I read over the internet that this medicine has serious side effects!"? Will your competency be questioned if you happen to check something in your PC or PDA? These are some of the aspects that a medical doctor has to face today.
Then, what is the best alternative? Can we hide such aspects of our profession? Or is there any way that we can come up with the solution? Definitely, it is up to us about what sort of culture to develop. The best way is to face the problem, to accept the reality, update ourselves and provide a better care to the needy people. And what do you think to be our first steps? The answer is obvious: "Keep yourself updated". We all know this but how? What is the best way to do this?
There comes xenoMED an online discussion forum supported by a group young enthusiastic medical doctors and like minded Nepalese Medical Students, who know what their profession is and what they should be doing. A concept incepted and initiated by Dr Angel from the very beginning of his medical student life has been developed and upgraded to the current version of xenoMED. This is what we still think is in the process of development and will go on changing with time and need.
We all know that information technology has shrunk the world into a mere village: Global Village, a concept where everyone is linked by a wireless technology and the xenoMED has already taken steps of miles in this aspect. We have enjoyed users from around the world and have been launching discussions.
Interaction among medical students & doctors is the core concept behind this online community but we tend to launch them more towards academic and competency of our profession. That is why; the threads (forums & their topics) are developed in such a way, links to a number of leading biomedical journals and websites, e-books and software as well as other useful materials to help the today’s doctor. Any issue that matters for medical profession and patients are seriously taken up and extensively discussed here. We try to be more precise and authentic to our discussion.
We need to keep latest medical news and events through medical websites and medical community of the world to be timely updated ourselves which is the only way to have fundamental knowledge of computing and medical information technology. People do talk about telemedicine, tele-epidemiology. xenoMED provides a floor for both of its kind. You can learn and interact with the people who have idea on the field.
xenoMED is an online community where academically sound, professionally conscious and socially responsible doctors and medical students come and interact.
xenoMED welcome you to join hands with many other like minded people in the net. We seek your interactive presence and your invaluable inputs which is the crux of our unity and perseverance.
xenoMED believe that the culture of interactive learning must start right through the student life. The concept of research & publication, journal club and continued medical education (CME) must be clear to the today's professionals. We tend to develop an attitude of academic way of thinking and evidenced based practice. This is the sole motto of xenoMED. However we would like to launch some charity programs in future as well. This would be possible only when xenoMED users stand together and generate funds. We all know this is not far. We invite you to join the xenoMED.
Every day, more and more people register on xenoMED, and the user base continues to grow geometrically. xenoMED will work hard to guarantee that it will always be able to handle an ever increasing population of Medical Students, Doctors, Patients and Health Care Providers.
What is xenoMED? xeno- prefix foreign, strange, different [Via modern Latin < Greek xenos 'stranger, foreigner'] A combining form of meaning ‘strange or pertaining to foreign matter’, as most of the things Medical professionals perform are foreign to the human body. xenoMED’s play on the term to reflects its mission to disseminate the immense potential of medical information available on the web to medical students, doctors, physicians, health professionals and organizations of Nepal. _________________________ About Nepal Population: 26.3 million (UN, 2005)
Capital: Kathmandu
Area: 147,181 sq km (56,827 sq miles)
Major language: Nepali
Major religions: Hinduism (official), Buddhism
Life expectancy: 61 years (men), 62 years (women) (UN)
Monetary unit: 1 Nepalese rupee = 100 paisa
Main exports: Carpets, clothing, leather goods, jute goods, grain
GNI per capita: US $260 (World Bank, 2005)
Internet domain: .np
International dialling code: +977
Disclaimer
This website has been set up by Dr. Angel Magar. The purpose of the forums are to encourage interactivity, discussion among the Medical Students, Doctors and Health Professionals and invite anyone interested in education to share their views on Medical and Health Educational topics of interests, emerging trends, issues and futures. The opinions expressed and arguments raised in the forums do not necessarily reflect the official views of the xenoMED. All technical problems should be addressed to
admin@xenomed.com
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Last update: October 11, 2006.
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