Deployment of ICT in Medical Education

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Deployment of ICT in MEDICAL EDUCATION THE
Medvarsity story
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ICT in MEDICAL EDUCATION

• Lakhs of practicing doctors/nurses dont have
  access to professional training
• India home to 18 of the worlds student
  population
• ICT in medical education - beginning of a
  marvelous journey
• Web 2.0, 3G and 4G Tools innovation and
  scalability

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The online ict space

• Internet user base 200 million
• YouTube has 40 million unique users in India
• Over 90 million mobile internet users in India
• India is the fastest growing online market space
  in the World
• Average user spends 20 hours a week on the net
• Facebook More than 75 million active users
• India in top 10 Twitter countries
• India has second highest LinkedIn users in the
  World

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4 KEY ICT Challenges in India

• Chalk Talk to Click Enter bringing
  Innovative technologies
• Physicians face internet-savvy patients
• Creating awareness for adopting ICT
• To motivate medical students and practitioners to
  use ICT to find info, learn and develop

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Transition from slate to tablet
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Transition From CLASS BASED learning
to social learning
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Transition FROM class room to
webinar VIRTUAL room
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Transition FROM university to e-varsity
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Medvarsity online limited

• Established April 2000
• Headquarters Hyderabad, India
• Celebrated 10 years

• Trained 25000 students
• International student base across 46 countries
  around the world
• Over 25 courses for Doctors, Nurses and Allied
  Medical Professionals

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Mission Statement

• To deliver Information Technology based quality
  education to the Health Care Providers (HCP) at
  any distance and to facilitate cutting edge
  research in delivery of medical education

Dr. Prathap C. Reddy Executive Chairman
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Where are we now in terms of technology

• From Computer assisted learning to learning
  anytime, anywhere.
• Embracing new Technologies- wireless fast
• Adopting evolving Interfaces- Tablets Smart
  Phones
• Skills training by Simulations- Nintendo wii
  generation
• Building digitally enabled Medical schools

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What we offer

• Structured set of directed learning over SCORM
  complaint Learning management system
• Diploma in identifying specific learning
  requirements
• Blended learning
• Hospitals based hands on training
• VSAT class room based sessions
• Webinar driven classrooms
• Tablet based learning solutions for Medical
  students

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Medvarsity learning management system
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Multimedia brought the world into the
classroom... Smart technologies will take the
classroom into the world.
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Technology for medical schools

• Audio visual aids
• 3D animations simulations
• New software hardware
• webinars 
• Tablets
• Social platforms
• Smart phones
• Technology driven smart teaching class rooms
• Smart boards
• Cloud based
• Feeding services

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Technology for medical schools

• Content-
• Concise Basics (NO Excess Baggage!)
• Visual - Picture say everything!
• Clinical emphasis
• Doctors (NOT Anatomists/Physiologists/Biochemists)
  
• Student (Know more Passionate)
• Objective-
  
• Problem-solver (specific information, NOT
• everything on the
  planet)

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Medvarsity on social media
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The Future e-learning to m-learning to

• Growing popularity of wireless technologies
• Demand of learning at anytime, any place,
• any pace, and any subject
• TV will be replaced by the Internet
• India will have largest internet users
• Advanced hand-held devices will
• be the chosen medium of learning
• Smart homes with smart students
• with smart devices

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• E- learning is a revolution a reality and very
  much here to stay. We need to innovate, exploit
  harness this Technology in order to compliment
  enhance learning to improve our standards of
  education.

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• We aim to pay the role of an educational
  technologist by amending pedagogical, educational
  medical innovations into technology for
  teaching learning.

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