JJ hospital to start an e-library

Pratibha Masand, TNN, Nov 9, 2010, 06.27am IST

MUMBAI: All the latest medical information will now be just a click away for doctors and doctors-to-be at the JJ Hospital and Medical College as the hospital is setting up a first of its kind e-library, which will start functioning within a month.

The government has given the college permission to start the e-library in an unused computer training centre on the hospital premises. "The library will have around 2,000 medical journals for under-graduate, post-graduate and nursing students to look through. This will help them with research and in making dissertations. Also, the library will be accessible to professors, associate professors and lecturers," said Dr T P Lahane, dean of JJ Hospital.

There are 25 computers in the training centre and around 450 computers have been assigned to doctors, which will be connected to the library.

Earlier, the hospital would subscribe to a few journals, which would take a long time to arrive. The new e-library is going to make life more easy for students. "Right now, we have to manually search the library for information on topics for a project. It takes time and often, it doesn't work. The e-library will allow us to get information within seconds," said a final-year MBBS student in JJ.

According to doctors, the library is going to be a useful tool for everyone in the hospital. "Doctors like to read about latest developments in their fields. We also try to include new practices in our treatments, which we read about in foreign journals," said a senior doctor from the hospital.

SOURCE: Times of India