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Karachi, Pakistan, 15 December 2017 - The Aga Khan University’s Centre for Innovation in Medical Education (CIME), a state-of-the-art facility for technology-based learning for health professionals, was inaugurated today by His Highness the Aga Khan, Chancellor of AKU.

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The aim of the centre is to transform education of health professionals through the use of simulation and virtual reality technology to develop knowledge and skills, a statement quoted the CIME director Dr Charles Docherty as saying.

“The centre aims to raise the bar for teaching and learning, thereby delivering higher standards of practice across the professions of medicine, nursing and allied health,” the statement added.

The 80,000-square-foot Rs1.6 billion donor-funded centre comprises three buildings — the Mariyam Bashir Dawood Building, the Ibn Sina Building and the Shiraz Boghani Building.

Students and professionals from different disciplines work together on real-life patient simulations. Nurses and doctors can practice responding to a situation in which a patient stops breathing, using a high-tech mannequin that responds as a real patient would respond. Afterwards, they can watch a video of themselves and analyse their performance.

The centre aims to raise the bar for teaching and learning and to thereby deliver higher standards of practice across the professions of medicine, nursing and allied health.