National Network of All India Medical Colleges

Imparting quality medical education in all the medical colleges and maintaining an uniform standard across the country is not only dependant on following an uniform curriculum prescribed by a regulatory body but also requires availability of excellent infrastructure such as qualified teachers, knowledge resources, learning materials and teaching technology. Though all these measures are ensured and followed in developed countries it is not so in developing countries due to financial and logistic constraints. Advancement in Telecommunication and Information technology provides an opportunity to bridge the knowledge gap by networking academic medical centers of excellence with peripheral medical colleges to practice distance learning in the form of interactive virtual class room, teleconference of operative procedures, accessing library, web enabled teaching activities etc. The scenario in India is no different from any developing country. Considering the recent availability of enormous bandwidth from existing space and terrestrial telecommunication infrastructure, Information technology professionals, necessary hardware and software, and the emerging technology of grid computing, the country is now in a position to afford such kind of network. Over last five years few pilot projects were carried out in different parts of the country with encouraging response