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 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’s will of developing ICT.
According to Prof. Patrick Kyamanywa, this donation will help to upgrade the teaching and learning innovations towards improving the training of Rwanda’s future health workforce.
He said, “Medical knowledge increases daily, students will be able to access to more information through navigating the tablets and enhance their learning”.
Magnifique Irakoze, one of the beneficiaries of Samsung tablets stated that students are committed to use these electronic tools to improve their skills.
The faculty of Medicine plans to monitor the results of tablets usage and their contribution to learning.
This donation is worth US$37,800 and beneficiaries are the level 3 clinical year medical students.
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