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The learning Resource Center (LRC) at Kasr Al Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo
University is a pioneering learning center of excellence.
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:
- We aspire to
provide our students, faculty and employees with the means and
methods to become outstanding contributors to the advancement of our
institution to regain its position as a leading medical education
provider in the region and worldwide.
Mission:
- Our mission is to
provide the “ideal standard” for the learning environment.
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”
Objective
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