Jipmer’s e-classrooms to share knowledge with colleges

The Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer), will soon set up e-classrooms to facilitate exchange of ideas and knowledge related to medical education with other colleges.

According to Jipmer Director Dr. Vishnu Bhat, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) identified ERNET India, an autonomous scientific society of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, as the System Integrator (SI) for the implementation of the National Medical College Network (NMCN) project.

Jipmer will be provided with equipment to upgrade one existing lecture theatre for streaming lectures live to other colleges of south India.

High-tech facilities

The lecture theatre will have 150-200 PAX capacity with proper acoustics and lighting suitable for video conferencing system.

Jipmer is the first government medical institution in south India to develop an e-classroom under the NMCN project. “Many students who are unable to get admission in Jipmer remain cut off from high integrated medical education available to students here. With setting up of such e-classrooms medical knowledge will easily be made available to all the medical students across the country, Prof. Bhat said.

As a Regional Resource Centre (RRC) for South India for Telemedicine, Jipmer is fully equipped with state-of-the-art technology including National Knowledge Network (NKN) high bandwidth internet connectivity supplied by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) Puducherry.

The NMCN project has been envisaged to interlink all medical colleges of the country with high-speed optic fibre backbone from NKN. The prime objective of the project is to create a standard and cohesive environment for medical education by deployment of advanced Information and Communication Technology Systems for tele-education, knowledge sharing, CME, and capacity building for students, doctors, medical experts, and citizens.

Under this project, a high definition video conferencing system based set-up with audio and visual control system and other accessories will be provided.