Dilip Barman NMCN Tele-education expansion possibilities in Medical Colleges/Institutes covered under E-Class Rooms under - Asia Pacific Advanced ...

Tele-education expansion possibilities in Medical
Colleges/Institutes covered under E-Class Rooms under
                         NMCN

               Dilip Barman
               Director, ERNET India
               (Education and Research Network)

TeleEducation- the definition
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       Tele-education is conventionally defined as: any
        educational or learning process or system in
        which the teacher and instructor are separated
        geographically or in time from his or her
        students; or in which students are separated from
        other students or educational resources.

Keywords...
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       NRC- National Resource Centre, Lucnow
       RRC- Regional Resource Centres, 7 in Nos
       MOHFW- Ministry of Health and Family Welfare,
        Government of India

The initiative…
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       MOHFW has taken initiative in establishment in
        National Medical College Network (NMCN)

       As part of the initiative, E-Class Rooms are being
        established in 49 medical Colleges and in SGPGI
        Lucknow, which is a National Resource Centre(NRC).

The initiative..
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       ERNET India has been entrusted with the job of
        Establishment of E-Class rooms.
       As part of establishment of E Class Rooms,
        Equipment supplied are:
           i) Video Conference Equipment,
           ii) LED TVs of different sizes,
           iii) Projector, Projector screens, microphones

The Initiative…
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          iv) Podiums equipped with audio visual
              systems
          v) Book reader etc,
      Complete range of equipment have been supplied so
    that a full-fledged E-Class Room is established in each
    of the Medical colleges/Institutes.

Colleges/Institutes and RRCs...
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Project under NMCN –Present Status
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          Setting up of E-Classroom Infrastructure in 50 Medical Colleges for
          MoHFW
       The project is for managing and maintaining the Classroom
        Infrastructure for 5 years including provisioning of 2 manpower each.
       Present status of the Project:
            Total No of Colleges 50
            No of Colleges made Go-Live on the Network: 45

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Typical E Class Room established
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Typical E-Classroom established..
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Installed Equipment
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Installed Equipment…
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Installed Equipment…
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Medical Colleges/Institutes live on NMCN….
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        45 Colleges + NRC live on NMCN.
         It has increased the capacity of the Institutes/Medical Colleges,
         as these are directly connected to the country wide network of
         50 Medical Colleges
         NMCN Scheme has enabled the medical Colleges/Institutes to
         access the Professionals and learners at various institutions for
         delivering and gaining knowledge through Tele-Education
         mode.

Enabling Tele Education….
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        As the Infrastructure in Medical Colleges/Institutes have
         been established, the institutes can demonstrate live
         surgery/Live Medical Procedures from Operation
         Theatre to the e-classroom by adding the only one or
         two equipment like camera in the OT.

Enabling Tele Education….
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        All the Medical Colleges/Institutes can utilize the
         network for
         i) For Students for MBBS
        ii) Students perusing PG through and
         iii)continuous medical education for Doctors/Faculty
         Members/Students/ Paramedics etc.

Enabling Tele Education….
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         Utilization of the network will increase the
         possibilities for better meeting of convenience,
         relevance, individualization, self-assessment,
         independent learning and systematic approach
         (CRISIS) criteria for effective continuous medical
         education.

Enabling Tele-Education….
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        The Medical Students can improve themselves
         professionally and independently utilizing the services
         of Medical professionals at other medical colleges
         through the already implemented Information &
         Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure
         established by ERNET India under NMCN Scheme.

Enabling the Medical fraternity…
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        Tele-education plays significant role in imparting
         medical education especially in postgraduate and
         continuous medical education for doctors, students,
         paramedical staffs etc.
        Through the established e-classroom infrastructure,
         All the medical Colleges/Institutes could get the
         following advantages in terms of flexible education
         imparting and gaining.

Benefits of E-class Room..
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        It is possible to distribute the educational contents
         uniformly.
         The new educational programs are available for fields
         outside of the medical institutions also.
        It enables the possibility of access to the educational
         resources to the various institutions;
        Superior quality of the knowledge gained through
         mutual interactions of the participating institutes.

Benefits of E-class Room..
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       More  efficiency and high educational standards to the
        students and teaching staffs.
       Increase capacity of the institution.

       Reducing the Costs of educational process.

       Making the resources available through Tele-education.

ERNET India’s role ahead- Preparing for the IT/ITS services
     for Continuous Education for the Medical Fraternity..
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        ERNET India has imparted two days trainings at
         RRCs which has highly benefited the Senior level
         professionals and Nodal Officers and team
         identified by the institutes.
        Trainings programs for the Medical Colleges under
         all RRCs have already been completed.

ERNET India’s role ahead- Preparing for the
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     IT/ITS services…

        The dates for trainings in other RRCs are being
         finalized by RRCs in coordination with
         colleges/institutes.
        The Training program will cover the NMCN
         orientation, IT training, Process training and activity
         training.

Vision for the Immediate future: Extension
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     of Ideas….
        Basic infrastructure for Tele-Education has been
         established.
         With additional one or two video equipment like
         camera etc, Live Surgery/Live Medical procedures
         can be streamed to the E-Class Room/to the network
         so that students/doctors can observe/understand the
         live surgery/Live medical procedures.

Tele-Educations for Live Surgeries /Live
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     Procedures

        Video streaming for Live surgery/Live Medical
         procedures can be very useful for Medical students
         who wish to see and understand live surgeries/Live
         procedures.
        It will be very helpful especially for any new
         procedures available for newer medical procedures
         for Zika Virus etc.

Demonstration of Live Surgery… a Typical
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     Experience

Demonstration of Surgery ..
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                         E Class Room way

Some aspects….Live demonstration of Surgery/process
     …Some Ethical/Legal/Clinical aspects…..
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        Ethical, legal and clinical aspects of live surgery in urology –
         contemporary issues and a glimpse of the future
          ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5397546/ )
        Live surgery at conferences – Clinical benefits and ethical
         dilemmas
         (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4435526/)
        Live surgical demonstration: is it worthwhile? -- Bertrand
         Guillonneau

DIFFERENT PLAT FORMS OF
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                       TELEMEDICINE
        Asia Pacific Advance Network(WWW.APAN.NET)
         has a very big international flat-form for
         Telemedicine and the conference happens twice a
         year in any of the Asia Pacific Countries.
        Telemedicine, eHealth & Health Informatics
          ( September 13-14, 2019 | Holiday Inn Atrium | Singapore)

        Different Conferences
         https://www.conferenceseries.com/Telemedicine-.php

Moving on... Hosting in cloud
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        Once the basic infrastructure is established, the contents
         generated would be edited and uploaded in the servers in
         NRC/Cloud in the near future.
        The present storage capacity available for the lectures about
         30T.
         Considering 10 Lectures session of 1 hr, storage available - 1
         year.
        By the time, the storage is exhausted, we need to upgrade the
         infrastructure and at the same time migrate to Clouds.

Moving on... Accessing the Contents
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        Links are shared to the students/doctors for
         accessing the contents/lectures of the
         Professors/teachers concerned.
        The same infrastructure may be used for
         participations of the students in India to the lectures
         elsewhere in the country.

Videos for some surgeries from NRC, Lucknow.

            https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SPc0Tq4lGrxD4tkE3L_-
            jQAXxLrn_TFl

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Factors affecting Success of the
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                                   project…
        Extent of success of the project will depend on
         utilization of the infrastructure by the colleges

        Co-ordination from National Resource Centre,
         Lucknow/RRCs/Medical Colleges/Institutes.

Tele-education expansion possibilities
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                      Any Queries ?......

Conclusion..
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                Thank You

                Dilip Barman
                email: barman@eis.ernet.in