New Delhi: Medical Cobotics Centre (MCC) is a technology-enabled medical simulation and training facility for young resident doctors. The Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIITD), signed an MoU on Wednesday to set up India’s first MCC at IIIT-Delhi.
It will also act as a validation centre for the research outcomes in the area of healthcare robotics and digital health. The centre will facilitate the training of other healthcare professionals, paramedical staff, technicians, engineers, and researchers, The Indian Express reported.
The training programmes will be designed in consultation with leading doctors/experts, mainly from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at New Delhi, Jodhpur, and other prestigious medical colleges.
The programmes will be at multiple levels (basic/advanced) and cohort-specific like urology, neurology, laparoscopy, and others but initially limited to minimum invasive surgeries.