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 About LRC |
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For health care institutions worldwide, the
“information age” has ushered in a variety of technological innovations that are
fundamentally changing the quality of health care delivery and medical
education. Information has become an essential commodity within the modern
health care system, as important as medical equipment or pharmaceuticals.
Changes in medical education and practice are happening at a fast pace. In the
past decade, innovative methods for medical education, training and practice
have been developed. Medical schools around the world have modified their “
Recommended Core Guidelines” to include not only print sources of information
but also computer –based resources; computer assisted instructional materials,
web-based learning, the internet, and other telecommunication technologies. Such
technologies can put a virtual library of information at the student or
physician’s fingertips.
A second area of change has been the transformation of the learning and training
environment. Clinical skills labs have been established to meet some of the
skills and attitudinal problems for medical students and health care
professionals, allowing them the opportunity to practice a wide range of
practical skills in a stress free environment.
Considering the ever-increasing number of enrolled medical students, the massive
information pool ushered by the Information Age, and the constant advent of
innovative curricula and teaching methodologies, University tutors in Egypt are
facing pragmatic challenges. Meeting these challenges, or opportunities
depending on how we regard them, requires our dedicated attention, innovative
thinking and relentless efforts. In order not to lag behind the rest of the
world, we have to embrace the latest innovations in medical education and
practice.
Establishing the Learning Resource Center (LRC) in our 180 years old medical
school was an essential requisite to reforming our educational system and
enhancing our learning environment |
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Vision & Mission
Vision:
Mission:
The LRC is dedicated to providing an educational
environment that combines stimulating academic study, effective skills training,
and sound research procedures
The LRC is devoted to introducing a “learner-centered” environment that offers
an efficient and more distributed pattern of learning meeting the global
standards of “Continuing Professional Development” |
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Objective
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To provide medical students with
innovative tools and opportunities to acquire knowledge, skills,
and attitudes that will enable them to become effective and safe
members of the health care society
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To employ the latest advances in
Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) to enhance
medical education, practice and research
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To acquire, maintain and provide
access to comprehensive educational aids that support the
curriculum
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To help students develop good
study habits and effective learning strategies
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To provide a modern
well-equipped facility that contributes to study and clinical
training and maximizes access to information by students,
residents, and faculty members
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To train medical professionals
on using innovative teaching methodologies and information
technology for professional purposes
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Donor Organizations
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TheEuropean Commission: TEMPUS (Trans European
Mobility Program for University Studies)
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Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific
Research: HEEPF (Higher Education Enhancement Project Fund)
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Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum (Award for
Medical Sciences)
Academic Partners
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Clinical Skills Center, University of Newcastle,
UK European
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Institute for Telesurgery (ETIS),
University of Strasbourg, France
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Center for International Cooperation in Academic
Development (MUNDO), Maastricht University, Netherlands
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European Surgical Institute (ESI), Hamburg,
Germany
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University of Aachen, Germany
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Egyptian Resuscitation Council
Corporate Partners
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Fujinon Corporation, Fujinon Europe GmbH, Germany
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Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG, Tuttlingen, Germany
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Ethicon Endosurgery, Johnson & Johnson Medical,
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