The School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin is a founding partner of the International Virtual Medical School, IVIMEDS. This is a worldwide partnership of leading edge medical schools and institutions, setting new standards in medical education and blending high quality e-learning and face-to-face learning in the training of health care professionals.

IVIMEDS is a repository of reusable learning objects, all of which can be downloaded and used within your lecture material.

The IVIMEDS Principles

• The use of world class learning materials accessed and shared among leading international medical schools and institutions.
• Flexibility in choice of content and learning strategies and the ability to customise content to meet specific needs of teachers, doctors and students wherever they are located.
• Technical interoperability and standards maximising the scope for international collaboration and flexibility of delivery methods

The School of Medicine introduced IVIMEDS hosting a symposium in November 2007