JIPMER

The Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research is a medical school in India. It is located at Pondicherry, the capital of the union territory of Puducherry, in southern India. JIPMER is an Indian central government funded institute with autonomy to run its internal administration. JIPMER is both an educational institute that imparts undergraduate and postgraduate medical training and a working hospital that provides inexpensive medical care to a large number of patients. JIPMER is an institute of national importance and a tertiary care referral hospital that is under the direct administrative control of Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.JIPMER is a residential medical institution with its own campus spread over 195acre. It has about 200 faculty and 360 resident physicians and over 3,000 nursing, administrative and support staff. Every year it admits 150 undergraduate students and 75 postgraduate students.JIPMER has started the work of its second superspeciality block, JIPMER International School of Public-health. JIPMER is partnering with other institutions, including Harvard School of Public Health, to exchange faculty, educational tools, research and data on public health. JIPMER's tie-up with the Harvard School of Public Health is part of the larger MoU between the American medical school and the Indian ministry of health and family welfare.The Telemedicine Services centre of JIPMER entered into collaboration with Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, South Korea and has started using Trans-Eurasia Information Network .Since, JIPMER is a Member of TEIN Network, the hospital can interact and share knowledge with European and Asian Countries.To begin with, on February 15, 2016 the personnel of JIPMER interacted over Video Conferencing using TEIN Network with Seoul National University Bundang Hospital South Korea. JIPMER thus became the first centre to use the Telemedicine services for the purpose.The Trans-Eurasia Information Network uses the ICT technologies to increase regional cooperation with Asian countries and to bridge the digital divide of less developed regions. It connects universities and research institutions with high capacity Internet network to increase the exchanges of knowledge among them and make big international research projects real.