Virtual teaching in Bhopal Med College classrooms

While the teachers are bullish about the project, the students still prefer a real curriculum over virtual

GN Bureau | February 24, 2012



In what could be a major achievement for classroom teaching, Bhopal’s Gandhi Medical College (GMC) will now be linked with All India Institute of Medical Sciences through a virtual teaching session. The pilot project by the national knowledge commission aims at upping the medical education standards in the country.

It would link the command control at AIIMS Delhi with PGI-Chandigarh, NEIGRIHMS-Shillong, JIPMER-Pondicherry, GMC-Bhopal, Lady Harding Medical College-Delhi and University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, reported by the Times of India newspaper on Thursday.

Dr Manoj Singh, who is the chief coordinator of the project, told TOI that in the long-run, we expect to link up all the medical colleges in the country through the VT classrooms. It is a supplementation of sorts and not the substitution of teaching."

However, one of the students preferred a real curriculum over a virtual teaching programme.

The technical support will be provided by the national informatics centre for the webcast.

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