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Incorporating and Emphasizing Sexual Health in Medical Curriculum of Nepal: Need of the Hour

Sexual health requires a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relationships. It is one of the most neglected parts of an individual's health. Sexual health is not adequately covered in the medical education curriculum of Nepal. There is a lack of clinicians practising sexual...

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Autores principales: Poudel, Reet, Paudel, Vikash
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9275466/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35690979
http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.7454
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description Sexual health requires a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relationships. It is one of the most neglected parts of an individual's health. Sexual health is not adequately covered in the medical education curriculum of Nepal. There is a lack of clinicians practising sexual medicine, which provides a fertile field for quacks in this arena. Sexual health needs to be included and incorporated into medical education. The policymakers and stakeholders need to address this need in sexual health urgently and effeciently. Comprehensive sexual education should be included for children, adolescents and young adults.
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spelling pubmed-92754662023-02-08 Incorporating and Emphasizing Sexual Health in Medical Curriculum of Nepal: Need of the Hour Poudel, Reet Paudel, Vikash JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc View Point Sexual health requires a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relationships. It is one of the most neglected parts of an individual's health. Sexual health is not adequately covered in the medical education curriculum of Nepal. There is a lack of clinicians practising sexual medicine, which provides a fertile field for quacks in this arena. Sexual health needs to be included and incorporated into medical education. The policymakers and stakeholders need to address this need in sexual health urgently and effeciently. Comprehensive sexual education should be included for children, adolescents and young adults. Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2022-06 2022-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9275466/ /pubmed/35690979 http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.7454 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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