HYDERABAD: The city-based e-learning company, Medical Education Research Centre (MEdRC), which is in the process of digitising the entire MBBS curriculum, prescribed by the Medical Council of India, has finished digitising three-year content of the same.
Earlier, MEdRC had planned to set up a network of 200 e-Learning centres, one each at every medical college location in India - on a build, own and operate model.
Elaborating on the venture, Director of the Dental Science wing, B Chandrakanth Rao, in a statement said: ``We have developed an e-learning programme for undergraduate medical students comprising text, tables, flow charts, colour stills, 2D & 3D animation, audio, video of clinical methods, case discussions and video lectures by over 700 expert faculty from across the country.’’ He added that around ten thousand multimedia enhanced digital lectures, of three years out of the fiveyear MBBS curriculum, have been digitised.
Another senior instructional designer, R Marina who has worked on the project, opined that these digital lectures would be a boon for the slow learners.
``The digital options offer the advantage of listening to the lectures repeatedly and can effectively supplement the faculty’s efforts at the medical colleges as well,’’ she said.
Initially, the NTR University of Health Sciences, along with top medical institutes and colleges, have adopted these digitised medical lectures on an experimental basis. They would continue to subscribe the digital curriculum based on the feedback from students and faculty members. The company claims that it is holding discussions with several medical colleges within and without the state to promote it.