{"id":251,"date":"2016-12-06T19:20:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T13:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/?p=251"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:47:18","slug":"investiture-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/2016\/12\/06\/investiture-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"INVESTITURE CEREMONY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3rd March 2016: The investiture ceremony of the Deans and Deputy Deans for the 3 faculties: the Faculty of Nursing and Public Health (FNPH), the Faculty of Traditional Medicine (FoTM) and the Faculty of Postgraduate Medicine (FoPM) was conducted on 3rd March 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony began with the offering of Marchang, followed by recitation of \u201cTashi Tshekpa\u201d and \u201cZhugdey Phunsum Tshogpa\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>The ceremony was presided over by the Hon\u2019ble Health Minister, Lyonpo Tandin Wangchuk as the Chief Guest and some of the invited guests. He reminded the appointees about the roles and responsibilities and encouraged them to work harder in serving the Tsa \u2013 Wa \u2013 Sum.<\/p>\n<p>As mandated by the University Act of Bhutan 2012 and the Condition of Services 2014, the elections for the three faculties were conducted with the support from the Dzongkhag Election Office as per the election guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment orders were handed over to the appointees by the Hon\u2019ble Chief Guest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Faculty of Nursing and Public Health (FNPH)<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Dr. Chencho Dorjee \u2013 Dean<br \/>\n2. Dr. Ripa Chakma \u2013 Dy. Dean, Student Affairs<br \/>\n3. Ms. Deki Pem \u2013 Dy. Dean, Nursing and Midwifery<br \/>\n4. Mr. Tshering Dukpa \u2013 Dy. Dean, Public Health and Allied Health Sciences<\/p>\n<p><strong>Faculty of Traditional Medicine (FoTM)<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Drungtsho Tendrel Wangdi \u2013 Dean<br \/>\n2. Drungtsho Sangay Wangdi \u2013 Dy. Dean, Academic Affairs<br \/>\n3. Drungtsho Tempa Gyeltshen \u2013 Dy. Dean, Student Affairs<\/p>\n<p><strong>Faculty of Postgraduate Medicine (FoPM)<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Dr. Tashi Tenzin \u2013 Dean<br \/>\n2. Dr. Karma Tenzin \u2013 Dy. Dean<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Phurb Dorji, the Programme Director for the Postgraduate Medical Education Centre (which is now known as Faculty of Postgraduate Medicine) was awarded with the Certificate of Appreciation in recognition to his outstanding contributions during his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony ended with the offering of the \u201cTashi Khadar\u201d in their respective faculties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3rd March 2016: The investiture ceremony of the Deans and Deputy Deans for the 3 faculties: the Faculty of Nursing and Public Health (FNPH), the Faculty of Traditional Medicine (FoTM) and the Faculty of Postgraduate Medicine (FoPM) was conducted on &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241599,"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/241599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}