Howard University College of Medicine (HUCM) has 19 departments and over 300 full-time academic faculty. Along with its affiliated 340-bed hospital, its mission and tradition are to educate physicians and serve underserved and disadvantaged populations.

Howard University Continuing Education (HUCE) was established in April 1986
to meet the education and training needs of professionals, administrators,
entrepreneurs, technical personnel, paraprofessionals and other adults on an
individual or group basis. Through Noncredit and Credit programs, HUCE
focuses on providing quality training opportunities designed to contribute
to organizational and individual advancement. Howard University Continuing
Education is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and
Schools and is recognized as a certified provider of Continuing Education
Units (CEU) by the International Association for Continuing Education and
Training (IACET). HUCE has the physical and technological capabilities to
deliver training through its 150-person videoconferencing facility

Howard University's Telehealth Sciences & Advanced Technology Center (HUTSATC) is committed to promoting the use of information technologies, electronic communications, and digital media in medical education, research and healthcare services. Our goal is to better the quality of life through efficient and effective delivery of health services, specifically to underserved populations

The purpose of HUTSATC is to educate medical students; current physicians and life long learners in technology based medicine as well as create and promote services that enhance the health and well being of patients.

One of our primary goals is to investigate the integration of telecommunications, computer, and medical technologies in health care. These efforts are being developed to support currently Internet based health education and service applications such as our Emergency Medicine Internet Teaching Tool (EMITT) project, and the Urban Asthma Care (UAC), The goal is to enhance health in urban, Caribbean, and Africa communities using emerging technologies; and to investigate the potential for the next several generations of medical systems to support our initiatives.

The Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library (LSHSL) that opened in July 2001 provides
state-of-the-art information resources for the students, faculty and staff
of the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy, Nurses and Allied
Health Sciences and the Hospital. The building has been designed to inspire
and optimize an environment for information exchange and study. The library
integrates video conferencing, smart classrooms, telemedicine and dedicated
medical informatics functions with classic library activities. The library
houses a 9 seat Telemedicine room, a 20 seat Distance learning amphitheater,
a 35-seat presentation room, and 2 Multi-media computer labs. Each of these
rooms is equipped with video conferencing capabilities. Howard University
Louis Stokes Library was designated as the first United States site of the
World Bank's Global Development Learning Network. The GDLN has over 30
Distance Learning sites across the world linked via a broadband satellite
communication linkage.



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