{"id":3821,"date":"2012-10-31T04:14:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T04:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nur-medical-students-get-97-samsung-tablets\/"},"modified":"2012-10-31T04:13:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T04:13:47","slug":"nur-medical-students-get-97-samsung-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nur-medical-students-get-97-samsung-tablets\/","title":{"rendered":"NUR Medical Students Get 97 Samsung Tablets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Center for Diseases Control (CDC) and Tulane University donated 97 Samsung tablets to National University of Rwanda (NUR) faculty of Medicine. }} <\/p>\n<p>These machines are loaded with educational materials for the medical students to easily browse and access to the plethora of e-resources.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to media shortly after the launch of Tablets for Medical Education(TFME) at NUR, Dr. Nancy Beth Mock , the director of Tulane University-Rwanda Office said that this donation was offered to the faculty of Medicine as support to capacity development and consideration of Rwanda\u2019s will of developing ICT. <\/p>\n<p>According to Prof. Patrick Kyamanywa, this donation will help to upgrade the teaching and learning innovations towards improving the training of Rwanda\u2019s future health workforce. <\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cMedical knowledge increases daily, students will be able to access to more information through navigating the tablets and enhance their learning\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Magnifique Irakoze, one of the beneficiaries of Samsung tablets stated that students are committed to use these electronic tools to improve their skills.<\/p>\n<p>The faculty of Medicine plans to monitor the results of tablets usage and their contribution to learning. <\/p>\n<p>This donation is worth US$37,800 and beneficiaries are the level 3 clinical year medical students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Center for Diseases Control (CDC) and Tulane University donated 97 Samsung tablets to National University of Rwanda (NUR) faculty of Medicine. }} These machines are loaded with educational materials for the medical students to easily browse and access to the plethora of e-resources. Speaking to media shortly after the launch of Tablets for Medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[75],"byline":[474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-3821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology","tag-homenews","byline-dusabemungu-ange-de-la-victoire"],"bylines":[{"id":474,"name":"Dusabemungu Ange de la Victoire","slug":"dusabemungu-ange-de-la-victoire","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":474,"name":"Dusabemungu Ange de la Victoire","slug":"dusabemungu-ange-de-la-victoire","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3821"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=3821"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=3821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}