Medical Education Research Centre 
for Educational Technologies 
(MEdRC EduTech)

MEdRC was set up in 1993 by Dr. Neeraj Raj, a gold medalist medical graduate of Osmania to help doctors teach and learn medicine making full use of the then evolving computer technologies. What started as a center to develop audio-visual aids at low cost for seminars, lectures, CME programmes, etc., has today evolved into an ambitious project that aims at significantly enhancing the existing infrastructure and quality of medical and health education through digital channels using SmarTeach, a World-Class Teaching/ Learning software developed by MEdRC.

While the initial effort is aimed at developing an exhaustive library of digitally archived e-Lectures by ?Master Teachers? encompassing the undergraduate and continuing medical curriculum, the ultimate aim underpinning the effort is to support and promote the expansion of lifelong learning at all levels of practicing healthcare professionals, particularly in the form of continuing professional development. In view of this, simultaneous efforts are being made to develop interactive and hyper-linked e-Learning modules that include animations and simulations of laboratory experiments and clinical case databases. 

A pilot phase has been highly successful ? over 8500 MBBS doctors have gone through a 300-lesson course till date at 35 owned and franchised e-Learning centers across India. 

The project envisages the setting up a Wi-Fi Campus Network at each of the medical colleges. Each student joining MBBS could access 5 years of integrated curricular content by logging in to the SmarTeach Learning Management System (LMS). The network shall over time also allow real-time online interactivity between students and teachers through tele-teaching and video conferencing. 

While MEdRC would spare no effort in bringing the necessary scientific, technological, manpower and financial resources together to make this into one of the most desired medical education network, it seeks to collaborate with various partners ? universities, professional bodies, pharmaceutical companies, technology companies and broadband Internet providers. MEdRC is partnered with Intel, HP, Microsoft, etc. towards this end.