Postgraduate Institute of Medicine University of Colombo

Message from the Director, Postgraduate Institute
of Medicine
I am proud to be associated with this new course offered by the
Postgraduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM), University of Colombo.
For the first time in Sri Lanka, the PGIM is training skilled
professionals in the field through our Masters degree programme in
Biomedical Informatics. With the new trainees entering the county’s
health sector it is bound to progress rapidly in the immediate future.
I am happy to see the first batch of graduates successfully
completing their training programme and reporting to the Ministry
of Health to engage in health informatics activities. This will symbolize coming age of the
field of health informatics, which is relatively new to our country. As the Director of the
PGIM I wish them success in their future eHeath activities.
In addition to Ministry of Health I foresee a future for such education in the Public Heath
Sector, Genetic and Molecular Sciences and in Medical and Allied Health Sciences
education in the state and non state sectors.
I am grateful to Prof. Sandeep Sahay and Prof. Vajira H. W. Dissanayke who played their
roles to direct the funding to PGIM which made us look at this collaboration as a useful
and doable project at a time when the country was in a pitiable state engulfed in
terrorism.
Vidyajyothi Professor Rezvi Sheriff MD, FRCP, FRACP, FCCP, FNASSL
Director
Postgraduate Institute of Medicine
University of Colombo
Sri Lanka
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