Recently updated on August 3rd, 2018 at 05:50 pm
Edo University Iyamho has commissioned the first Anatomage Table by any medical training institution in Nigeria.
The Vice Chancellor of the Edo University Iyamho, Engr. (Professor) Emmanuel Aluyor, made this disclosure on the 23rd of March 2018 during the University’s 2nd Founder’s Day, held at Iyamho in Etsako West local government area of the State.
According to the Engr. Emmanuel Aluyor, an Anatomage Table is the most technologically advanced anatomy visualization system in the world for anatomy education, which has been adopted by many of the world’s leading medical schools.
Engr. Emmanuel Aluyor further disclosed that Edo University is one of the four medical training institutions in Nigeria with power lab system for teaching Physiology and Pharmacology, adding that the clinical skills laboratory when fully operational, will compete with other leading medical schools in the continent.
The University management also recently signed memorandum of understanding for partnership with two foreign universities, namely, Worcester State University, Massachusetts, United States of America, and the University of Sunderland, United Kingdom.
Professor Aluyor said the partnerships would afford some students of the institution the opportunity to spend between one and two years abroad in the students’ exchange programme, to complete their training in approved programmes.
He said that the University has made history within its two years of existence, having just been adjudged the best State-owned University in Nigeria and 3rd out of 160 Universities assessed by the National Universities Commission (NUC), in the Open Educational Resources (OER) ranking recently.
In the words of Professor Aluyor:
