Jayendra Bajracharya, PhD
College of Health Sciences
Senior Lecturer
Year 6 Chair, Medical Doctor Program
Biography
Dr. Jayendra Bajracharya completed his first professional degree in Medicine (MBBS) from Quaid-i-azam Medical College, Pakistan in 2000. After working as a junior doctor for a few years, he pursued his interests in basic medical sciences and obtained a master’s in molecular biology from California State University Long Beach, USA in 2008. He began his teaching career in 2009 as an adjunct faculty in various colleges in California and Arizona, USA. In 2011, he joined Nepalese Army Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal as a faculty in Biochemistry and served there in multiple roles (PBL Coordinator, Skill Lab Coordinator, PG Program Coordinator, Chief of Academics) for 10 years. In 2017, he led the establishment and operation of a simulation laboratory in the institute. In 2021, he joined Madan Bhandari Academy of Health Sciences, Nepal as the Head of the Department of Laboratory Medicine. In 2022, he worked as the Medical Superintendent at Nepal Mediciti Hospital, a tertiary care superspecialty hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. In 2024, he completed his Master’s in Health Professions Education (MHPE) from Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Since 2023, he has worked as a quality improvement and educational consultant for healthcare institutions in Nepal.
Dr. Bajracharya carries special interests in simulation education and resuscitation education. He has been an American Heart Association (AHA) instructor of Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) since 2018. Additionally, he holds instructor status for other AHA courses – Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and Advanced Stroke Life Support (ASLS). He worked as the training center faculty at the Center for Medical Simulation, an AHA-certified training center in Nepal. He received certification as the Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE) in 2024 from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH), USA.
Dr. Bajracharya received the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Commendation Medal in 2019 for his excellent service as an academician at the Nepalese Army Institute of Health Sciences.
• Simulation Education and Practice
• Resuscitation Education and Practice
• Patient Safety and Quality Improvement in Clinical Care
• Assessment in Medical Education
• Team Science
• Quality Improvement in Emergency Medicine
• Clinical Skills, including Communication Skills, Clinical Reasoning Skills, Clinical Decision-making Skills and Emergency Procedural Skills
• Integration in Medical Sciences through problem-based learning (PBL) and case-based learning (CBL)
• Emergency Medicine, including resuscitation skills
• Designing and Implementing Foundation Courses for Allied Health Science Students Employing Kern’s Six Steps: A Narration of Perspective, Cogent Education 2025
• Study of Glycated Haemoglobin and Lipid Profile in Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus, Nepal Journal of Health Sciences 2022
• Comparison of Packed Cell Volume Changes after Erythropoietin Administration and Blood Transfusion in Patients with Anemia of Chronic Kidney Disease on Hemodialysis, Nepal Journal of Health Sciences 2021
• Undergraduate Medical Science Students Positive Attitude towards Online Classes during COVID-16 Pandemic in a Medical College: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study, Journal of Nepal Medical Association 2021
• Antibiotic Susceptibility Pattern of Urinary Isolates from a Tertiary Care Hospital in Kathmandu, International Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences 2017
• In silico Validation of Expressed Sequence Tags for Alternate Splice Variants of Human myo-Inositol Oxygenase Gene, International Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences 2017
• 2000: Bachelor in Medicine and Surgery (MBBS), Quaid-i-azam Medical College, Islamia University, Pakistan
• 2008: Master of Science in Biology (Molecular Biology), California State University Long Beach, USA
• 2024: Master’s in Health Professions Education, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
• 2024 PhD Scholarship Award at Maastricht University, The Netherlands (2024-2028)
• 2020 Osmosis Raise the Line Faculty Award, Osmosis from Elsevier
• 2019 Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Commendation Medal, Nepali Army, Nepal
