About CMETi

Know about CMETI 

• 1977- Proposal mooted for establishing CMET

• 1989- Government approved Tripartite Agreement (Between AIIMS, Overseas Development Agencies, Govt of the United Kingdom and Govt of New Zealand.

• Centre named after Prof KL Wig, Director of AIIMS

• 1990-30.08.96 Started functioning under the leadership of Dr Usha Nayyar

• 1993- Formally inaugurated by Shri K.R.Narayanan, Ex- Vice President of India

• 01.09.96-17.09.05- Dr Kusum Verma, Professor In Charge

Brief Summary

AIIMS is responsible for developing teaching patterns in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education in all its branches to demonstrate a high standard of medical education to all medical colleges and other health professional institutions in India. Although the Institute has brought about significant changes in its curricula, the overall standard of Medical Education at a national level has remained static since 1947. Teachers in most medical colleges in India have remained uninfluenced by modern educational theories and advanced educational technology. Our health planners increasingly felt that urgent, competent and comprehensive action was needed to make medical education more relevant to our national needs. AIIMS has been exploring the possibility of establishing an inter-institutional link with the Centre for Medical Education at the University of Dundee in the United Kingdom for quite some time. A proposal was mooted 1977 to establish a Centre for Medical Education and Technology at AIIMS. However, it was in 1989 that the Government of India accorded formal approval to the tripartite agreement between AIIMS, Overseas Development Agencies (ODA), the United Kingdom and Govt. of New Zealand to set up a Centre with a view to elevate the standards of Medical and Health Personnel Education by improving the methods of teaching learning and rationalising the educational strategy. The Centre has been named after Prof. K.L. Wig, the second Director of AIIMS and a doyen of Medical Education.

Following a tripartite agreement between AIIMS and the UK and New Zealand governments, a faculty development program was organised for a core faculty and technical staff at the Dundee Institute of Educational Technology, United Kingdom. The Government of New Zealand provided the equipment for a fully fledged media production centre.