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  • A view of the entrance of the 80,000-square foot Centre for Innovation in Medical Education (CIME) which is spread over three buildings at the Aga Khan University’s Stadium Road campus in Karachi.
    The.Ismaili | 15 December 2017 | Pakistan

    Mawlana Hazar Imam inaugurates Centre for Innovation at AKU

    A view of the entrance of the 80,000-square foot Centre for Innovation in Medical Education (CIME) which is spread over three buildings at the Aga Khan University’s Stadium Road campus in Karachi. Rahil Imtiaz Ali
  • Aga Khan University President Firoz Rasul highlights how the CIME facility aims to raise standards in the teaching and practice of healthcare.
    The.Ismaili | 15 December 2017 | Pakistan

    Mawlana Hazar Imam inaugurates Centre for Innovation at AKU

    Aga Khan University President Firoz Rasul highlights how the CIME facility aims to raise standards in the teaching and practice of healthcare. Rahil Imtiaz Ali
  • Mawlana Hazar Imam speaking at the inauguration of the CIME’s facility.
    The.Ismaili | 15 December 2017 | Pakistan

    Mawlana Hazar Imam inaugurates Centre for Innovation at AKU

    Mawlana Hazar Imam speaking at the inauguration of the CIME’s facility. Akbar Hakim
  • Mawlana Hazar Imam observes the CIME courtyard during a walkabout.
    The.Ismaili | 15 December 2017 | Pakistan

    Mawlana Hazar Imam inaugurates Centre for Innovation at AKU

    Mawlana Hazar Imam observes the CIME courtyard during a walkabout. Akbar Hakim
  • Mawlana Hazar Imam and Aga Khan University President Firoz Rasul appreciate the generosity of CIME donors Mr Bashir Dawood and Mrs Mariyam Bashir Dawood, at the inauguration ceremony.
    The.Ismaili | 15 December 2017 | Pakistan

    Mawlana Hazar Imam inaugurates Centre for Innovation at AKU

    Mawlana Hazar Imam and Aga Khan University President Firoz Rasul appreciate the generosity of CIME donors Mr Bashir Dawood and Mrs Mariyam Bashir Dawood, at the inauguration ceremony. Rahil Imtiaz Ali
  • Students practice dental procedures on high-fidelity phantom heads under the supervision of experienced faculty at CIME’s state-of-the-art dental simulation lab.
    The.Ismaili | 15 December 2017 | Pakistan

    Mawlana Hazar Imam inaugurates Centre for Innovation at AKU

    Students practice dental procedures on high-fidelity phantom heads under the supervision of experienced faculty at CIME’s state-of-the-art dental simulation lab. Akbar Hakim
  • Professor Saulat Fatmi shares how a low-cost innovation introduced by the Aga Khan University’s faculty is helping students learn about the inner workings of the heart.
    The.Ismaili | 15 December 2017 | Pakistan

    Mawlana Hazar Imam inaugurates Centre for Innovation at AKU

    Professor Saulat Fatmi shares how a low-cost innovation introduced by the Aga Khan University’s faculty is helping students learn about the inner workings of the heart. Akbar Hakim
  • Professor Saulat Fatmi demonstrates key techniques in cardiac surgery using a bovine heart at CIME’s advanced skills simulation lab.
    The.Ismaili | 15 December 2017 | Pakistan

    Mawlana Hazar Imam inaugurates Centre for Innovation at AKU

    Professor Saulat Fatmi demonstrates key techniques in cardiac surgery using a bovine heart at CIME’s advanced skills simulation lab. Akbar Hakim
  • Mawlana Hazar Imam in discussion on how high-tech simulators can be used to teach students how to treat heart disease at CIME’s cardiac catherization lab.
    The.Ismaili | 15 December 2017 | Pakistan

    Mawlana Hazar Imam inaugurates Centre for Innovation at AKU

    Mawlana Hazar Imam in discussion on how high-tech simulators can be used to teach students how to treat heart disease at CIME’s cardiac catherization lab. Akbar Hakim
  • Dr Irfan Jeeva, associate professor in the ophthalmology department, guides a trainee during an eye surgery simulation at CIME’s advanced skills simulation lab.
    The.Ismaili | 15 December 2017 | Pakistan

    Mawlana Hazar Imam inaugurates Centre for Innovation at AKU

    Dr Irfan Jeeva, associate professor in the ophthalmology department, guides a trainee during an eye surgery simulation at CIME’s advanced skills simulation lab. Akbar Hakim
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Mawlana Hazar Imam's Diamond Jubilee visit to Pakistan

Mawlana Hazar Imam inaugurated the Aga Khan University (AKU) Centre for Innovation in Medical Education (CIME), a state-of-the-art facility for technology-based learning for health professionals, on 15 December.

In his inaugural address, Mawlana Hazar Imam acknowledged the many contributions made towards the advancement of healthcare in the country stating that civil society was underserved in education in Pakistan. Expressing his gratitude to all those who had sustained the University, he said, “we should position this institution in its correct place in service to Pakistan.”

CIME’s mission is to transform the education of health professionals through the use of simulation and virtual reality technology to develop knowledge and skills before treating patients.

“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,” said CIME Director Dr Charles Docherty. “We seek to become a strategic asset for Pakistan and the region that is at the forefront of efforts to raise the standard of healthcare.”

The Centre offers multi-purpose teaching spaces, high-fidelity simulators, and specialty environments such as the phantom-head dental lab, a cardiac catheterisation lab and telemedicine clinics.

Learning from other such centres around the world, CIME supports student-centred, problem-based, and team-based learning. Students and professionals from different disciplines work together on real-life patient simulations. For example, 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. 

High-speed communications technology allows video connectivity throughout CIME and with international experts, offering a truly ‘global classroom’, with students able to learn from specialists anywhere in the world in real-time. This same connectivity allows CIME to work with remote and rural populations within Pakistan and neighbouring countries to expand access to quality healthcare.

“In everything we do, as our Chancellor says, ‘we must look to the future, seeking always to think creatively, to innovate and to improve,’” said AKU President Firoz Rasul. “Technology-enabled learning has the potential to transform how we prepare students and professionals to face society’s most pressing issues. By giving today’s health professionals the most advanced facilities to work and learn together at CIME, we give them the best chance of becoming leaders capable of solving tomorrow’s healthcare challenges.”

“AKU has been the recipient of significant philanthropic support,” he added. “That support has enabled us to launch important new ventures, build new facilities and achieve ever-higher standards. We are very grateful to our donors for their extraordinary generosity.”

Mawlana Hazar Imam laid the foundation stone for the three buildings of CIME during his previous visit to Pakistan in 2013.